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Connecting => Swap Shop and Wish Lists => Seen on craigslist, eBay, and elsewhere => Topic started by: BeenDown139 on December 20, 2022, 04:30:08 AM

Title: here's a pretty old girl...
Post by: BeenDown139 on December 20, 2022, 04:30:08 AM
https://reverb.com/item/48450053-alembic-vintage-alembic-series-1-bass-rare-very-collectible-year-model-1977-koa-beauty

not on my shopping list but someone here may be in the market for  koa series I.  located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  not sure where that is.  might have to look it up in my Funk & Wagnell's.
Title: Re: here's a pretty old girl...
Post by: fivestringdan on December 20, 2022, 07:30:16 AM
Yes it is. Also looks like the finish is checking like my 77!
(https://www.talkbass.com/attachments/img_20220704_181850755-jpg.4740775/)
Title: Re: here's a pretty old girl...
Post by: adriaan on December 20, 2022, 07:45:24 AM
[...] located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  not sure where that is.  might have to look it up in my Funk & Wagnell's.
Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan.
Title: Re: here's a pretty old girl...
Post by: BeenDown139 on December 20, 2022, 08:00:19 AM
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Yes it is. Also looks like the finish is checking like my 77!

good heavens!  couldja give us a better close-up?    :o

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Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan

pretty sure it wasn't in the lower 48 but whatever pitiful crumbs of knowledge i picked up my geography classes have long since gone by the wayside.  so i'm gonna guess that getting it to states could be interesting.  real interesting.  and ezpensive. 
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Post by: garyhead on December 20, 2022, 08:33:04 AM
Uzbekistan is where the scammer is.....This bass has been discussed here before.....
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Post by: edwardofhuncote on December 20, 2022, 10:17:01 AM
Yeah, this one is familiar. I seem to recall us discussing the bass one-zee... and the sometimes seen dark stripe through the headstock. I know of two other Alembics with a slice of that wood veneer.


Is it 77- 810?


Here's a thread with the same bass. https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=26660.msg271041#msg271041
Title: Re: here's a pretty old girl...
Post by: hankster on December 22, 2022, 10:33:46 PM
Yup. When I’m looking for a new high end electric instrument made in the US of A, I’m takin’ me to Tashkent. What could possibly go wrong?
Title: Re: here's a pretty old girl...
Post by: BeenDown139 on December 23, 2022, 03:41:45 AM
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Yup. When I’m looking for a new high end electric instrument made in the US of A, I’m takin’ me to Tashkent. What could possibly go wrong?

well as long as ya don't have any CBD oil in yer makeup kit yer probably OK. probably