Alembic Guitars Club

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Title: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: Quasar1 on October 12, 2024, 03:27:56 AM
https://www.elderly.com/products/alembic-model-1-msg-30u-220532
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: edwardofhuncote on October 12, 2024, 04:34:09 AM
Nice zebrawood on that one... front and back.  8)


The finishing 'cup' washer where a strap button would go is a nice touch... I suppose it was just put there as a place-holder instead of having vacant screw hole? I'd rather have a strap button there, but I guess if you never played it on a strap... and didn't want something poking outta' there... that's a solution. I like it. Wish I could play one.
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: dela217 on October 12, 2024, 05:11:04 AM
That is really pretty!    What about that rear plate?!?
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: edwardofhuncote on October 12, 2024, 06:16:19 AM
Quote from: dela217 on October 12, 2024, 05:11:04 AM
That is really pretty!    What about that rear plate?!?

Woah! I didn't even catch that. Big Oopsie with the router? How about the pickup selector switch Michael? You seen one like that?
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: lbpesq on October 12, 2024, 10:13:18 AM
The specs state a 25.5” scale.  An “MSG” is a medium scale guitar, 24.75”.   And that is about the biggest rear plate I’ve seen! 

Bill, tgo
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: dela217 on October 12, 2024, 01:53:13 PM
The pickup selector switch is the stock pointer switch, but all of plastic is broken away.    That is what is under the pointy plastic piece.    I actually like that.   I like it so much, I ordered the pointless ones from Alembic.
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: lbpesq on October 12, 2024, 04:09:59 PM
Magnifying it, the PU selector knob looks like a hunk of brass with a point, which is turned 180°, facing down, like many of us have done.   So if I break the plastic off of my original 1976 plastic pointer knob, it will have the brass pointer knob inside?


Bill, tgo
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: dela217 on October 12, 2024, 04:11:29 PM
No, it is aluminum on the inside.
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: Quasar1 on October 12, 2024, 07:31:27 PM
More nice photos

https://www.instagram.com/p/DBBqcRcpttZ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: Quasar1 on October 15, 2024, 05:01:53 AM
Video  :) :) :)

Close up of switch !!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBHaeIgSnHA/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Title: Re: 1975 guitar at Elderly
Post by: edwardofhuncote on October 15, 2024, 01:25:03 PM
It may be my tiny little mobile dumbphone screen, but the the switch button looks like a caramel colored plastic pointer, over the aluminum knob. Might be ordinary... I just can't recall another.