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Alembic products => Showcase => Epic Basses => Topic started by: sharkwagon on March 30, 2022, 09:18:03 AM

Title: Wenge Epic-V
Post by: sharkwagon on March 30, 2022, 09:18:03 AM

From Mica:
top: Wengé
accent: Maple pinstripe
body: Mahogany
neck: 5-piece Maple
scale: 34" long
inlays: none
fingerboard: Ebony
finish: Polyurethane satin natural (oil-look)
pickups: MXY56
electronics: pan, volume, bass, treble, mono output
originally made for: Guitar Center Atlanta
birthday: not recorded, but likely October 1995

Title: Re: Wenge Epic-V
Post by: lbpesq on March 30, 2022, 09:25:46 AM

That Wenge top is gorgeous!   The pickups, though, appear to be incorrectly mounted as all four screws in each PU are on top.   The proper method is to have two of the screws, catacorner to each other, mounted below the pickup with the other two mounted catacorner on top on the pickup.  Then you loosen all screws, adjust the two below the PU to get the desired height, then tighten the two above the PU to lock it down.

Bill, tgo

Title: Re: Wenge Epic-V
Post by: gearhed289 on March 30, 2022, 09:42:28 AM

Nice Epic and nice TL-Five! I bought a TL-Six a couple of years ago as a backup and found it to be an incredible bass for the money.

Title: Re: Wenge Epic-V
Post by: pauldo on March 30, 2022, 01:44:12 PM

That top IS beautiful.   To augment Bill’s pick up remounting tips, the two screws above each pick up should be tightened just enough to secure the pickups from any movement.  Over tightening those screws CAN crack the pickup ear(s).

Paul (ask me how I know]