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Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: goop on November 05, 2009, 10:16:35 AM: Aside from the one that feels so good, what body and configuration seduces you the most. The one you can't take your eyes off. The one you long to hold.

I like the perky horns and big round bottom of the early Distillate...
Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: sonicus on November 05, 2009, 11:24:52 AM: HI,
I also have an early 81 Distillate and a 97 standard point Series II.

I seem to like those body style designs but One of these days I think I am going to have a custom body Series II built. The shape is still in the design stages in my mind .
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Post by: artswork99 on November 05, 2009, 01:37:16 PM: The ones I can touch ;)
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Post by: ajdover on November 05, 2009, 01:44:43 PM: For me, it's the Exploiter (of course), the SC, the Essence, and the Epic. I like the Europa as well, but with a Signature electronics package. The Balance K is a winner IMHO, as is the EVH. Not a fan of the Standard Point or anything with an omega, but that's just me.

Alan
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Post by: ajdover on November 05, 2009, 01:46:21 PM: Oh, and the Dragon's Wing? One of my faves.

Alan
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Post by: mario_farufyno on November 05, 2009, 02:40:30 PM: My personal favourite is the simple and elegant Essence's bodyshape (although I love my Rogue).

My dream is to order a 6 string Essence with Rogue's eletronics equiped with one of those 3 stages Q switch. Mahogany Body, Maple/Ebony laminate Neck, Maple accent and figured Walnut, Redwood or ony other dark wood on Top, MOP oval inlay and matching Headstock.
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Post by: dadabass2001 on November 05, 2009, 03:06:53 PM: CR's series balance K is sexy beautiful! Or Flax's Dire Wolf...
I luv a fancy neck thru!
Wish I could own one

Mike
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Post by: keith_h on November 05, 2009, 04:05:37 PM: I'm partial to the small standard body. I also like the Europa/Orion body shape.

Keith
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Post by: jazzyvee on November 05, 2009, 05:26:22 PM: For bass my fave is Small Standard Body Shape. Elan, Europa. I'm not keen on the large body shapes, points or cutouts although I admire/appreciate the design.

Jazzyvee
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Post by: serialnumber12 on November 06, 2009, 03:46:53 AM: Beautiful!!!(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/72334.jpg)
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Post by: goop on November 06, 2009, 05:09:07 AM: That is fricken sexy!
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Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 06, 2009, 07:45:05 AM: I love the Spoiler body. If they only had a proper headstock........
I also like the Standard Point & Omega a lot, and the Europa. The Dragonwing is beautiful, but not something I'd want, if that makes sense.

Peter
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Post by: sonicus on November 06, 2009, 08:31:16 AM: I agree , a spoiler with an Alembic Crown Headstock would be swell !
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Post by: bigbadbill on November 06, 2009, 09:13:03 AM: Triple O. I love a girl with an exaggerated hourglass shape!
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Post by: toma_hawk01 on November 06, 2009, 12:43:33 PM: Yeah, I would say that's sexy for sure.
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Post by: jameso9 on November 06, 2009, 06:53:47 PM: I have an Elan (wish that had the classic headstock!), but side by side, my Distillate is the one I find myself gazing at.
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Post by: bass4worship on December 19, 2009, 07:52:46 PM: My Excel 2000:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74298.jpg)
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Post by: pierreyves on December 20, 2009, 02:19:04 AM: for me all the SC & MK4 balanced K are sex !!
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Post by: serialnumber12 on December 20, 2009, 05:12:32 AM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74307.jpg)
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Post by: lbpesq on December 20, 2009, 10:38:26 AM: Now there's a couple of sexy guys playing their sexy axes!

hehehehe

Bill, tgo

P.S. Senior management asked me to relate that she says mine is long & hard.
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 04:06:50 AM: This is subjective but I am pretty partial to the Rouge. But it's all good, it would be a tougher question to ask anyone to name even one that isn't sexy. You know? I just came here looking for parts when I found this very fun forum of folks that love the same things I do. (Playing bass, especially on an Alembic)
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74349.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74350.jpg)
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Post by: FC Bass on December 21, 2009, 04:57:44 AM: Welcome! Missed the announcement of a new Alembic model I guess, or could it be a Rogue? ;-) More sexyness:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74355.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74356.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74357.jpg)
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Post by: eligilam on December 21, 2009, 08:01:49 AM: Are those Optima/Maxima golds on there? I just strung up my old Jazz bass with those...here's to hoping they last as long as advertised....
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Post by: serialnumber12 on December 21, 2009, 12:20:08 PM: Not mine but i love it!!!(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74390.jpg)
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Post by: serialnumber12 on December 21, 2009, 12:22:16 PM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74393.jpg)
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 04:46:37 PM: Boy you guys just keep them coming!! I love the Rouge that got posted right after mine (fc_spoiler)and then the 'Bass' Ale bottle was cute too. Using beer bottles to play slide on a bass is a blast. I first formed the thought after attending a Savoy Brown show as a kid. Their lead guitarist (Kim Simmons? Is that right?) used a Heinekin bottle for a whole bunch of great solos over the night and it was really good. As luck would have it someone bought me a Heinekin a few nights later when I was out working (I was undersage at the time too so that was really nice of him) and looking down at it in my hand made the picture from a few nights before flash in my head so I did an impromtu solo. The other guys I was playing with liked it and started asking me to do it other nights too. (sure folks, just keep buying me beers, I'll do that) I did find that using a full unopened one kept a better tone going and that the brand is less important (but obviously you would skip a Michelob bottle). Anyhow, cool shot.

BTW - If we all look away from our own personal choices and ask ourselves what is the sexiest we see someone else with I do have to go with that one that SerialNumber12 put up near the top. That thing is freakin' beautiful, just wanted to point that out.
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 04:59:01 PM: Ah, I get the joke now. I misspelled Rogue the first time I typed it and now my system is finishing the word incorrectly each time after that. My own automation getting away from me. Sorry guys. (And no, I don't like any form of makeup, rouge or otherwise)

I am new enough that I can just disappear and come back as a new user name to fix that.
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Post by: gregduboc on December 21, 2009, 04:59:42 PM: Dude, I don't mean to be a pain in the **s or rude by no means, but it is actually spelled ROGUE, not ROUGE.
Anyways, welcome!!!

Greg
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 05:00:18 PM: Ah, I get the joke now. I misspelled Rogue the first time I typed it and now my system is finishing the word incorrectly each time after that. My own automation getting away from me. Sorry guys. (And no, I don't like any form of makeup, rouge or otherwise. Just want to clear that up.)

I am new enough that I can just disappear and come back as a new user name to fix that.
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Post by: gregduboc on December 21, 2009, 05:01:18 PM: Oops, you beat me by seconds!!!

Greg
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 05:22:25 PM: I also just learned that if you get an error from the website saying it could not do your post you should check to make sure it really didn't do it before you redo the post.

...and I consider corrections on my bad spelling to be acts of kindness, not rudeness so no sweat.
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Post by: gregduboc on December 21, 2009, 05:35:19 PM: Robert, so there goes another fact!
Double post will happen a lot to you if you become a usual member to the club.
You will get the hang of it... And, you can always edit a message so you can pretend you did not double post for mistake!

Greg

(Message edited by gregduboc on December 21, 2009)
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 06:05:15 PM: Good to know, and thanks. It took me a moment but I now see the little icons to the far right for editing. Being the curious jackass sort I right away clicked on someone's other than mine to see what would happen and I see how they covered that.

This topic thread needs more pictures. Begs for them in fact.
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Post by: David Houck on December 21, 2009, 06:42:17 PM: Hi Robert; welcome to the board.

A couple decades ago or so ago, a saw the Nighthawks open for George Thorogood. I'm pretty sure Jimmy Thackery was the guitar player at that time. There was one song where during a rather long and very entertaining slide guitar solo, the singer, Mark Wenner, kept handing Thackery different slides to use, beer bottles, mic stands, etc, and without missing a note Thackery would keep playing this blistering guitar solo with each new slide. Finally Wenner brought out a watermelon. Didn't slow down Thackery a bit; and the crowd of course loved it. Oh, and in my view that night, Thackery and the Nighthawks blew away Thorogood.
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Post by: coco_bolo_rouge_5 on December 21, 2009, 07:50:39 PM: Wow, a watermlon huh? I never thought of trying a watermelon.
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Post by: serialnumber12 on December 22, 2009, 07:26:38 AM: Watermelon????................that would be one juicy Bass solo!
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Post by: serialnumber12 on December 22, 2009, 07:38:34 AM: This Bass is the shit!!!(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74487.jpg)
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Post by: serialnumber12 on December 22, 2009, 09:49:52 AM: Mine is Very sexy!!!(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74496.jpg)
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Post by: pauldo on December 22, 2009, 09:53:04 AM: I really really really like this one:

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74499.jpg)
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Post by: gregduboc on December 22, 2009, 10:14:56 AM: This last one looks familiar....

Greg
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Post by: rogue5 on December 22, 2009, 05:55:25 PM: Hi, this is the rouge-rogue guy aka the artist formerly known as coco_bolo_rouge_5. That account is going to fall behind and this is going to be me going forward. After talking it over with Mica we decided this way was best.
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Post by: David Houck on December 22, 2009, 06:31:48 PM: Welcome back!
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Post by: elwoodblue on December 22, 2009, 07:11:12 PM: I'd like to see a watermelon solo.
This (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mz8ruPalns&fmt=18 target=_blank) was my first exposure to Danny Gatton.
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Post by: jacko on December 23, 2009, 02:27:31 AM: There aren't many bodies I don't find sexy but I'm really taken with Rick's balance point (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=7416).

Of course, I'm no adulterer so my real favourite has to be my own rogue (http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/17164.html?1228518801) ;-)

Graeme
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Post by: the_jester on December 23, 2009, 09:20:22 AM: Jack, I agree.

Here's my quote from Rick's FTC:
November 13, 2009

...Your bass is BADD!

In fact, I believe it is the Baddest CocoBolo/Sexy Alembic ever made yet....

I still agree with this statement.

So, with Greg's and Rick's Almebics included, I don't feel like I lost my eyes

(Message edited by the_jester on December 23, 2009)
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Post by: David Houck on December 23, 2009, 09:49:24 AM: Well I've never seen anybody play with a towel before; but I guess if you're constantly drying your neck off after spilling beer all over it, you can get a lot of practice in. Cool video; thanks!
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Post by: oddmetersam on December 23, 2009, 04:00:20 PM: Every Alembic has a certain sexiness to begin with, even when it's just dormant (like a Ferrari parked at the curb). So many of you have absolutely stunning basses, it would be impossible to pick any one as being the sexiest! In the 70's I loved the large-body Series with the point, then over time began to feel they looked slightly dated and overly "mother hipped" (yes, feel free to mentally slap me; I was ignorant and unworthy...). In more recent times, as I was looking through the COTM's and FTC threads, I fell in love with the balance K with BTC top wood and finally got one (see below and my profile pic)! As much as I'm still crazy about my Mark King Deluxe, a standard point Series II in either BTC redwood burl, flame purple heart, superb walnut or buckeye burl (continuous wood backplates & truss rod covers, bird of prey tailpiece, etc.) will be my next baby...in about 2102! Meanwhile, maybe Hal's Tomahawk will (chop?)open the door to a new era of custom body shapes. At the very least, his vision has certainly stirred the pot in that regard.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74596.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74597.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74598.jpg)
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Post by: sonicus on December 23, 2009, 04:10:30 PM: You have a SWELL BASS!
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Post by: David Houck on December 23, 2009, 04:23:48 PM: Absolutely beautiful!
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Post by: oddmetersam on December 23, 2009, 04:25:22 PM: Thanks, Sonicus!
How about hooking up sometime, as I live in Oakland, too? I'd love to see your basses in the flesh -er, wood.

That goes for all you other Oakland owners, too. I've got a 24/7 lockout room at Rehearse America...

Speaking of which, I'm still reeling from the past Northern California Gathering!
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Post by: oddmetersam on December 23, 2009, 04:39:46 PM: ...and Thanks, to you Dave! I've already mentioned how much I like your basses and I periodically just gaze at the beautiful organic-looking fretless you were selling on this thread...
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Post by: the_jester on December 23, 2009, 07:02:21 PM: Sam, thanks for your kind words about the Toma_Hawk.

I never seen an ugly Alembic. If any body see's one, let me know, and point it out to me... Oh-kay-eee.

By the way, Congress Woman Barbara Lee is my cousin and she's very good at speaking her mind when necessary

I love Oakland, and I would love to jam with you Sam! If you see Rusty Allen, tell I have much love for his fund-raising activities for Heart Disease in Redwood City. I love that brother, and he's a heck of a bassist too!

Peace and Love -

(Message edited by the_jester on December 23, 2009)
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Post by: flaxattack on December 23, 2009, 08:48:29 PM: i'll get these photos shrunk to fit in here when i am able to get upstairs to my computer
for now
http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/47144.html?1198834769 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=7538)
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Post by: bottomdweller on December 27, 2009, 04:11:39 PM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74713.jpg) Thought I would post my '94 Essence for it's blatant sexiness.
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Post by: mike1762 on December 28, 2009, 07:04:14 AM: I always thought my '77 SI was sexy. Simple but elegant.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/74726.jpg)
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Post by: oddmetersam on December 28, 2009, 09:28:30 AM: I agree!
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Post by: hg30904 on December 28, 2009, 10:19:20 AM: I never seen an ugly Alembic. If any body see's one, let me know, and point it out to me... Oh-kay-eee.

May I offer up the Love-Giver?
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Post by: JuancarlinBass on December 28, 2009, 11:43:55 AM: I should say my 96' Epic is The Sex Itself

Only that righ now I have a strong desire for this beauty which is being sold on eBay for 10 grand...

Oh well.. I can stop sobbing, I guess I can be bigamous :P
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Post by: JuancarlinBass on December 28, 2009, 11:48:57 AM: Double post, sorry... dunno why.

(Message edited by jcdlc72 on December 28, 2009)
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Post by: JuancarlinBass on December 28, 2009, 11:54:06 AM: Ok I've found the Edit button, somehow my second message also got double-posted....

(Message edited by jcdlc72 on December 28, 2009)
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Post by: JuancarlinBass on December 28, 2009, 11:59:09 AM: Ditto... same as above... er.. Nice day, isn't it? :P

(Message edited by jcdlc72 on December 28, 2009)
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Post by: senmen on December 28, 2009, 12:19:10 PM: Ok Ok,
here is the most sexy Alembic....
or bass player.....
or jacket.....
or strap.....
or spider necklace...

Oliver (Spyderman)
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Post by: hg30904 on December 28, 2009, 12:38:48 PM: and the answer is...
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Post by: gregduboc on December 28, 2009, 02:58:39 PM: So many basses... damn...
Spyderman, your Dragon Wing is one of the things I love most in Alembic. So beautiful.... If I had the money, I would buy it in a glimpse... Shame I don't...

Greg
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Post by: jacko on December 31, 2009, 02:40:04 AM: I've decided it's this one (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_she.html)

Graeme
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Post by: senmen on December 31, 2009, 03:08:13 AM: Graeme,
good taste buddy.
Yes, SHE is really sexy.......

Oliver (Spyderman)
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Post by: malthumb on May 30, 2011, 08:21:09 AM: IMHO the sexiest Alembic body type is the Balance K with Heart Omega cutout and beveled Crown headstock. Makes me do the Homer Simpson open-mouthed drool thing.
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Post by: lembic76450 on May 30, 2011, 11:39:10 AM: With the exception of Bonnie, which will always have a special place in the hearts of us all, the sexiest Alembic has to be the one that I am playing on any given night.
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Post by: jazzyvee on May 30, 2011, 04:23:10 PM: Excluding my bias for my own alembics, these are near the top of my list of damn sexy basses.

Basses:
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_dragonsbreath.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_dragonsbreath.html)

http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/103576.html?1305953258

For the large bodied basses it would have to be No:12.

Guitars:
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_bobguitar.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_bobguitar.html)

http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_fullspectrum.html

Jazzyvee
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Post by: pauldo on June 01, 2011, 03:56:29 PM: wow -
yeah Bonnie fer sure.
A Triple O is always alot of eye candy.
But right now there is that Distillate with the stinger on it (Dave's?) that is thick and sultry and makes me drop to my knees!
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Post by: mario_farufyno on June 02, 2011, 10:43:16 AM: There are so many...

John Paul Jones 12 string triple omega

Bird of Prey
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_bop.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_bop.html)

Retro Appeal
http://www.alembic.com/info/FC_mdretro.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/FC_mdretro.html)

Non-stop Buckeye
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_nsb.html (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_nsb.html)

Flip's Custom Europa Fretless
http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/62222.html?1236275907 (http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/62222.html?1236275907 target=_top)

Tom's Essence exquisite top
http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/28132.html?1192237922 (http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/28132.html?1192237922 target=_top)

All vintage first Alembics, like n?12 and n?10
http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/70709.html?1283037176 (http://alembic.com/club/messages/411/70709.html?1283037176 target=_top)

And Stanley Clarke's Bass, the reason I got grabbed by Alembic look and tone first time...
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Post by: billostech on June 07, 2011, 05:30:47 PM: (Message edited by billostech on June 07, 2011)
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Post by: billostech on June 07, 2011, 05:30:54 PM: The sexiest Alembic?
..... drum roll please.....

The one in your hands !!!
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Post by: bigbadbill on June 08, 2011, 05:34:52 AM: Triple O!!!!
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Post by: rustyg61 on June 08, 2011, 07:20:26 PM: Right on Bill! An Alembic in the hand is worth 3 on a website!
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Post by: jacko on June 09, 2011, 01:27:58 AM: However, while it's ok to drool on your keyboard it's NOT ok to drool on the alembic you're holding :-)
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Post by: rustyg61 on June 09, 2011, 02:00:34 AM: So Jacko, are you saying it's considered bad form to use drool for Finger Ease? :-)
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Post by: David Houck on July 02, 2011, 02:12:59 PM: I think this one (http://www3.alembic.com/img/inst/13885_wallpaperw1.jpg) looks amazing; but it also sounds pretty amazing too.
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Post by: pierreyves on July 02, 2011, 02:33:06 PM: more I play this bass, more I find it fantastic and I find some sounds that go beyond imagination!

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/108416.jpg)
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Post by: jacko on July 04, 2011, 04:15:20 AM: I've got to agree with you Dave. Your 6 string is one of the most stunning instruments Alembic have produced in recent years*. I especially love the neck recipe.

Graeme

*. except mine of course :-)
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Post by: David Houck on July 04, 2011, 07:55:28 PM: Graeme; ours share similar shapes and woods, and yours has an especially nice top (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8725)!
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Post by: karl on July 05, 2011, 11:29:59 AM: I just love the small standard - the symmetry, simplicity and compactness of it. But that said, I'm with Hal: I've never seen an ugly Alembic.
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Post by: Bradley Young on September 29, 2011, 10:09:07 PM: Ok, I'm kinda partial to:

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/114013.jpg)

Just sayin'.
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Post by: mario_farufyno on October 01, 2011, 02:50:34 PM: I would be proud too...
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Post by: wishbass on January 15, 2012, 07:46:39 AM: Pierre has my fave Stanly,Graeme's Rogue, Bob Novy's modified Rogue, Poornigel's OtherTwin Europa and #12. For myself I hope to build an EMW persuader w/ an omega crown headstock, 5A quilt and lots of accents............
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Post by: rami on November 08, 2012, 08:49:06 PM: (http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/143074.jpg)

This picture just makes me lose my mind!!! If this doesn't say SEXXXY, then I don't know what does!!!
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Post by: 5a_quilt_top on November 09, 2012, 11:48:19 AM: My favorite body styles in no particular order: Retro/Classic medium scale 4-string style: 72-01. Hard to beat the original with its symmetry and classic crown headstock.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/143122.jpg)
Contemporary long scale 5-string style: Europa with 3+2 headstock. Elegant, sleek and dangerous.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/143123.jpg)
Classic short scale 4-string style: Stanley Clarke Sig Deluxe. Petite with perfect proportions.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/143124.jpg)
Avant-garde 4-string style: Spyder/Exploiter with "V" headstock. Absolutely outrageous in every way.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/143125.jpg)
Just add yer favorite wood and electronics "recipe" to any of them and yer good to go, depending on yer mood. That having been said, I'd be hard-pressed to identify an Alembic I don't like. Each one is unique and beautiful in its own way.
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Post by: hammer on November 09, 2012, 12:25:54 PM: This sweetheart will be mine at some point in the future, and of course like women, sexy is in the eye of the beholder.

I'd love to see more pics of it but so far I haven't had any responses to my pleading e-mails.

The whole situation reminds me all too much of the 2-year long-distance relationship I had with the woman who was to become my wife while she finished her undergraduate studies and I was in another state in grad school. And before anyone asks, that was way before there was anything like skyping, sexting, and the like. The internet was still just a twinkle in Al Gore's eye.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/143130.jpg)
Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: cozmik_cowboy on November 09, 2012, 12:33:41 PM: That is pretty darn sexy, Rami; I mean, if a man had a bass like that, he'd never need another instrument, right?

Peter
Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: billostech on November 09, 2012, 01:15:20 PM: Right...wink wink
Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: 5a_quilt_top on November 09, 2012, 02:58:07 PM: Lookin' gooood, Hammer.

Another classic is well on its way to completion.

That walnut is awesome.
Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: rustyg61 on November 09, 2012, 05:43:29 PM: I love the tie-dye walnut!
Title: What is the sexiest Alembic?
Post by: that_sustain on November 19, 2012, 04:21:22 PM: I like the Distilliate body the most. I always looked at other Alembic models and wished they were modified. I didn't care for the point bottom of the Series basses...thought the small Series was too small..wasn't into the Omega thing. Then, I saw the Distilliate for the first time..which was what I was wishing for as a body shape.