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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: timplog on July 21, 2024, 09:28:13 AM
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Greetings fellow Alembicans
Have my eye on a used Mark King 4
Serial number is 03MJ3182
I'd be really grateful for any info available including the build sheet if..
thanks Mica!!
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Tim, your serial looks like it must be missing a digit in the final part, as for 2003 it would be over 10,000 (the year and model indicators will vary, but the final number is steady as she goes).
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Nice looking bass. Based on Adriann's suggestion and the Reverb photo with the A-sting in the way, I'm gonna guess it's 03MJ13182..?
Jimmy J
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thanks folks!
I've queried the seller regarding the missing serial number
may be a moot point anyway we'll see
cheers
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thanks again folks!
the seller replied with the number (03MJ13182) as you had surmised Adriaan.
will still look forward to the build sheet for this guitar.
should I restart the request for Mica do you suppose?
by the way this is now my Alembic-joins my small 4 string collection 2 Essences and a Europa.
pics to follow
what an awesome builder
cheers
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restarting this Serial Number lookup request with the corrected (thanks Adrian and JimmyJ )
Serial Number 03MJ13182 sold as a Mark King 4
thanks in advance, Mica
hope everyone's well
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restarting this Serial Number lookup request with the corrected (thanks Adrian and JimmyJ )
Serial Number 03MJ13182 sold as a Mark King 4
thanks in advance, Mica
hope everyone's well
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no photo no Alembic I get it
here's that photo though the bass's in transit
anticipation!
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and meant to thank Jimmy J for the answer
cheers ++
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Hey Tim,
Congrats! Great to hear this one is coming your way. Hope you really enjoy it and it gets along well with its siblings.
Be patient with the serial number lookup request. They tend to come in waves whenever Mica finds a moment to pull out the file drawers. Post more pics once you have it in hand. :)
Jimmy J
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thanks Jimmy J understood👍
by the way maybe I could ask-used to smaller body Alembics (Essence) and haven't seen this MK standard in the wild yet-any idea if this body shape is appreciably larger?
don't think it's as large as the Series....
anyway thanks again!
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by the way maybe I could ask-used to smaller body Alembics (Essence) and haven't seen this MK standard in the wild yet-any idea if this body shape is appreciably larger?
don't think it's as large as the Series....
Looking at the various model pages (http://www.alembic.com/prod/basses.html) the classic shapes appear to have an overall width just under 14" for a 4 string. For an Essence, that's 12" - so quite a difference. This is a classic Large Body, so coming from a petite Essence it may take some getting used to, also due to the longer reach to the nut.
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thanks again Adriaan
I measured one of them at 12.5" so something less than 14" shouldn't be too bad, and I've got larger (bass) guitars.
might be a good shape for playing seated.
about 5 days out
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Here is the old body shape page, I think these are to the same scale relative to each other: http://www.alembic.com/info/bodyshapes.html
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thanks FC Bass that's a useful page, it's nice to see them all at once
quite a range
cheers!
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Here's an overlay Mica sent me while we were planning my custom build. My eyeball/yardstick measurements of my '82 Spoiler put it right at 14" wide, so this should still give an idea of how an Essence compares to an MK.
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hey Spoilers!
thanks for that page, bet it was fun working with Mica.
hope your build is everything you imagined.
just received my '03MK it measures 15 1/2" so getting wider.
still comfy though can't really anchor my right thumb against the end of the fretboard as usual, but the pickup edge serves.
saw that this is considered a 'large' body-do they go any wider still?
will have to get a group photo now.
really appreciate everyone's time!
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saw that this is considered a 'large' body-do they go any wider still?
The widest would be the original Balance shape, which was a precursor to the Balance-K shape which in turn has proven quite popular. My Balance-K 6 string comes in at 15" at its widest
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Hey Tim... glad to hear you new bass arrived, play it in good health.
I have a Balance-K 5-string which is a bit over 14" at its widest, suspect that a Balance-K 4-string would be even narrower.
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see previous
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family snaps
Thanks Alembic !!
94' Essence Koa
03' Mark King Signature Coco Bolo
08' Essence Coco Bolo
93' Europa Macassar Ebony
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pretty low-res do i read it correctly we're limited to 1mb files?
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pretty low-res do i read it correctly we're limited to 1mb files?
The limit is 1,000 kB {which is slightly under 1 MB). There are different approaches to reducing the file size, besides changing to a lower resolution, like image size or compression.
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thanks Adriaan, and I should've known better than to start with a 91.5mb file