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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: savell on September 15, 2006, 08:00:03 AM

Title: What Wood Is This?
Post by: savell on September 15, 2006, 08:00:03 AM

I need to know what wood this bass is? Does the serial number give any indication or do we have to just look and compare?

Title: What Wood Is This?
Post by: savell on September 15, 2006, 08:02:04 AM

My Bass(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/31438.jpg)

Title: What Wood Is This?
Post by: adriaan on September 15, 2006, 08:06:35 AM

If you can post the serial number in the Owning an Alembic section, subsection Serial Number Requests, and wait a couple of weeks, someone at the factory will dig up the file on your bass and post the contents of the build sheet.
 
Other than that, if you can upload a photo perhaps we can have a guess - mind you, some woods look a lot alike.

Title: What Wood Is This?
Post by: adriaan on September 15, 2006, 08:08:36 AM

I was typing while you uploaded it. I think there was a discussion on the top wood of this very same Epic a couple of days ago?

Title: What Wood Is This?
Post by: lbpesq on September 15, 2006, 09:15:58 AM

Savell:
 
This bass does look like the one previously discussed here:
 
http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/31255.html?1158261661 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=3835)
 
Looking at the picture in that thread I gave the opinion it was Bocate.  However, after looking at your picture, I think it might actually be Cocobolo.  I'm 95% sure it's one or the other.  Adrian's right about posting the serial number in the request section.  Though my experience is that you will have an answer in a matter of days rather than a couple of weeks.  Either way, a very pretty bass.
 
Bill, the guitar one

Title: What Wood Is This?
Post by: savell on September 15, 2006, 07:06:28 PM

Thanks Adrian. I just posted the serial number. Now it's wait and see time.
 
Thanks Bill for the compliment. I like this bass a lot but I haven't had the chance to play it very much since I no longer play bass in the band. I have been playing pedal steel for quite a while now. I do miss it every now and then. Sometime I think I will sell it but when somebody gets interested, I start having second thoughts. Its bought and paid for now, I guess I ought to hang on to it.