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Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: quadrogong on September 08, 2006, 11:06:20 PM

Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: quadrogong on September 08, 2006, 11:06:20 PM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/31256.jpg)
Seller suspects it's cocobolo,not sure though,showed the picture around,and now we all agreeit's bocate,or maybe flatsawn coco,we got one or 2 wenges even.
serial # is 97w10627 if i read the pic right.
can the kind folks at alembic help out?
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: lbpesq on September 09, 2006, 09:20:24 AM: Kevin:

Congrats on a beautiful axe! Looks like Bocate to me, but what do I know? If you want info, you should go to the Owning an Alembic section, click on Serial Number / History Requests and start a thread there. Mica or Valentino will usually post the info within a few days. Meanwhile, enjoy the bass (I'm sure you will!)

Bill, the guitar one
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: s_wood on September 09, 2006, 09:57:12 AM: Looks like bocate to me. It's beautiful whatever it is.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: jseitang on September 09, 2006, 11:43:01 AM: ditto on that... bocate.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: jacko on September 09, 2006, 07:19:02 PM: Definitely Brown;-)

graeme
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: the_8_string_king on September 13, 2006, 12:11:08 AM: It's Bocate.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: georgie_boy on September 13, 2006, 03:43:02 AM: You are both wrong. I think it's beautiful
G
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: essenceman on September 14, 2006, 03:58:05 AM: If it's any help my Essence has a bocate top.
Here's the link

http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/8362.html?1088470749 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8902)

Whatever the top is, it's still a beautiful bass.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: FC Bass on September 14, 2006, 04:32:33 AM: I'm not sure about mine also...
Edwin van Huik told me the top wood is Coco Bolo, but it also looks a lot like Bocate:

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/31405.jpg)

I did a history request through PM, no answer yet.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: rockbassist on September 14, 2006, 08:37:15 AM: It looks exactly like my Epic. I emailed the serial number to Alembic and was told it was walnut.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: mica on September 14, 2006, 10:58:20 AM: If I were guessing, I'd say both the basses pictured here were Bocate. Most woods have a wide range of figuring they can exhibit. It's easy to confuse Bocate and Coco Bolo, but Bocate always seems to have a more yellow or green cast to the color.

Flip, is this the one without a serial number?
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: bassman10096 on September 14, 2006, 11:02:54 AM: Light does different things to some cocobolos and there are a lot of color variations, even within the same piece.

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/393/31417.jpg)
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: FC Bass on September 14, 2006, 11:39:47 AM: Mica: Yes this is the one, I can see something like a 4 and a 7 when I look at a certain angle. I think the number got lost when the bass was refretted (done by the prev. owner)
This picture is also in the html document. If you lost the link please let me know, it's still online.

Thanx,
Flip
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: mica on September 14, 2006, 12:13:09 PM: I haven't lost it of course. As as explained to you, cross referencing the work order number is a tedious task. I've already spend 2 hours combing through files to try and identify the bass. Still don't know who your bass is exactly. Hope to find out someday.
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: FC Bass on September 14, 2006, 12:21:01 PM: Thanks! And there's no hurry, someday I will compensate for the lost hours and order myself a highly customized Elan. I'm sure about one thing, it will be a FC!
Title: Is the topwood coco or bocate???
Post by: jseitang on September 15, 2006, 11:18:11 AM: bassman10096- what kind of bass is that in the picture? i know the pickups, but i dont know the bass.anybody help me?