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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: xlrogue6 on March 17, 2022, 11:55:20 AM

Title: Elan 5 just down the road from the Mothership
Post by: xlrogue6 on March 17, 2022, 11:55:20 AM
http://www.loudandclearmusic.com/shop/Bass-Guitars/p/ALEMBIC-ELAN-5-STRING-ELECTRIC-BASS-W-CASE-x62127741.htm (http://www.loudandclearmusic.com/shop/Bass-Guitars/p/ALEMBIC-ELAN-5-STRING-ELECTRIC-BASS-W-CASE-x62127741.htm)This just showed up at the music store next to my repair shop. No affiliation, thought someone here might find it interesting. Especially those waxy pickups! ;D ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: Elan 5 just down the road from the Mothership
Post by: edwardofhuncote on March 17, 2022, 03:30:03 PM
I like everything about that bass, except for the long scale. If I ever got twitchy, and sent my Persuader 5-string home to the Mothership for the spa treatment, I would be very tempted to have it resprayed in that same burst finish.


*and of course I would have to have it upgraded with waxy pickups!  Means Wide AXY maybe?
Title: Re: Elan 5 just down the road from the Mothership
Post by: adriaan on March 17, 2022, 03:57:24 PM
Could be a fat-fingered typo hitting the W next to the A on whatever passes for a keyboard in this here day and age. Or W for wide aperture - as in Fatboy.
Title: Re: Elan 5 just down the road from the Mothership
Post by: xlrogue6 on March 17, 2022, 05:06:40 PM
I think the store guys got that off the build sheet, I suspect when this bass was built that meant wide AXY, as in wide enough for a 5 or 6 string bass. Wide aperture was still a few years down the road for AXYs.
Title: Re: Elan 5 just down the road from the Mothership
Post by: mica on March 17, 2022, 09:38:06 PM
WAXY was the name we used before AXY56.
Title: Re: Elan 5 just down the road from the Mothership
Post by: jazzyvee on March 17, 2022, 11:58:08 PM
Sometimes it's a good thing these basses that tick the right boxes for me, come up for sale in the states and not the UK.  :-)