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Title: Scorpion Bass at Lark Street Music
Post by: senmen on July 04, 2021, 02:17:37 AM

Guys,


Lark Street Music has a Scorpion for sale.
These are the specs taken from their Reverb ad:

ALEMBIC Scorpion Bass, 1984, natural blistered Mapletop and back over a solid Mahogany body, Ebony board with pearl inlays, 2 Alembic pickups, Brass bridge,
nut and tailpiece,5 piece Maple/Mahogany Neck-thru Body neck, LED "on" light,gold Schaller tuners, dual truss rods, 24 frets, 32 1/4" scale, as used by Greg Lake, exc....$9950


Attached plse see the pictures, courtesy Lark Street Music.
Greetz
Oliver (Spyderman)

Title: Re: Scorpion Bass at Lark Street Music
Post by: rv_bass on July 04, 2021, 06:02:31 AM

That’s a beauty!  Greg, how about a guitar that looks like that?  :)

Title: Re: Scorpion Bass at Lark Street Music
Post by: edwardofhuncote on July 04, 2021, 07:29:13 AM

That's a nice one... I like the maple/mahogany combos. Distillate controls too. Yessir, that would definitely make my Persuader jealous. Wonder if the truss rod cover is in the case pocket?

Title: Re: Scorpion Bass at Lark Street Music
Post by: hammer on July 04, 2021, 09:20:05 AM

Never heard of the term “blistered” used before but that’s a very interesting top. Quilted but with a bunch of other interesting figuring thrown in. Even a hint of Birdseye in a few places.

Title: Re: Scorpion Bass at Lark Street Music
Post by: sonofa_lembic on July 28, 2021, 04:37:31 PM

That is one of my old basses I had made back in the day.  I can always tell since I had the Omega horns cut ultra thick.  That is basically a Distillate with a fancy body.  $10K is way out of line for a fancy Distillate.  By the way, Mica used to call this maple I was getting from them "Mutant Maple". This one is from the Bob Malone era at Alembic.