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Alembic products => Showcase => Spoiler Basses => Topic started by: NoMud on August 14, 2022, 06:32:20 AM

Title: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: NoMud on August 14, 2022, 06:32:20 AM

Picked this one up a couple weeks ago.  Needed some serious corrosion control on the brass bits but it's getting there.  The top kind of looks like maple, but I'm not sure.  Any opinions?

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: edwardofhuncote on August 14, 2022, 07:02:19 AM

Yessir, maple top, with a cool little curly-burly in it, on a mahogany core.


Welcome and Congratulations.  8)

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: NoMud on August 14, 2022, 07:39:51 AM

Thanks EOH, I wasn't sure because it seems a little darker in person than other maple-tops I'd seen.  It's amazing how many sounds you can dial in with just 4 controls.

Already thinking of a Series II.  These things are hazardous to your wallet.

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: hammer on August 14, 2022, 09:19:38 PM

Very nice maple top!

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: pauldo on August 15, 2022, 04:07:27 AM

I see a face.
😎

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: NoMud on August 15, 2022, 07:59:18 PM

Quote from: pauldo on August 15, 2022, 04:07:27 AM

I see a face.
😎

Hope it's not an angry one!

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: pauldo on August 16, 2022, 04:37:03 AM

Quote from: NoMud on August 15, 2022, 07:59:18 PM

Quote from: pauldo on August 15, 2022, 04:07:27 AM

I see a face.
😎

f

Hope it's not an angry one!

Blissful

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: mica on August 16, 2022, 01:19:32 PM

Yeah - cool Maple top with a burl cluster. There's a lot of variation in color in most woods. This has aged a nice golden color.

Title: Re: 1990 Spoiler
Post by: NoMud on August 16, 2022, 02:15:14 PM

Thank You Mica! 
It is a nice mellow finish.