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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: videns on March 08, 2016, 12:56:35 PM

Title: (x) 91K6622
Post by: videns on March 08, 2016, 12:56:35 PM

Hi all,
 
I would appreciate any information that you may have about the above listed serial number. I purchased the bass used in Fort Lauderdale in 1993, but never really bothered to know it's details. It's an awesome bass and I just cannot understand how anybody would have let it go. Preferences, I guess...
 
Thanks,
 
Marcelo

Title: 91K6622
Post by: videns on March 10, 2016, 10:21:06 AM

And here it is along my '73 jazz bass...(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/226580.jpg)

Title: Re: 91K6622
Post by: mica on May 24, 2016, 05:56:20 PM

Nice looking original Essence bass! Here's what I was able to find out about your bass:

model name: Essence
model number: KLB5
top: Flame Maple
accent: Walnut pinstripe
body: Maple
body shape: Essence I
neck: 5-piece Maple
scale: 34" long
fingerboard: Ebony
inlays: none
pickups: Alembic MXY56
controls: volume, pan, filter, mono output
originally made for: Washington Music, MD
birthday July 12, 1991

The original owner was from Maryland.

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Title: Re: (x) 91K6622
Post by: videns on May 26, 2016, 09:30:18 AM

Hi Mica,

Thanks for your reply. I have a small correction though, the neck has 7 laminates, not 5.

As far as repairs is concerned, I replced the jack twice and the volume pot once (I'm still having a noise problem with the pots, so it may be tha IC that is the problem) and had the neck re-finished last winter. The paint was gone...