Alembic Guitars Club

Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: piers_williamson on May 06, 2012, 04:39:15 AM

Title: (x) 96W9879 Epic & 95MJ9128
Post by: piers_williamson on May 06, 2012, 04:39:15 AM

I've been watching posts for the last year in the forum and want to thank everyone for illuminating the world of Alembic. It's fun watching! I own two left handed Alembics - see pic and have got around to wondering where they started out. I'm particularly interested to know whether the fretless was originally lined? (a plus for an amateur fretless player like me!)
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/130464.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/130465.jpg)

Title: Re: 96W9879 Epic & 95MJ9128
Post by: piers_williamson on November 06, 2016, 01:20:10 PM

With your wonderful new website accessibility, I thought I would reawaken a past thread requesting the history of my two lefty Alembics.  Mica, do you have any background on either of these?

thanks

Title: Re: 96W9879 Epic & 95MJ9128
Post by: mica on December 14, 2016, 04:11:26 PM

Hi Piers,

Thanks for resurrecting this thread for me. I don't mean to miss things but sometimes I sure do.

Here's what I can tell you about your Epic bass:
top: Zebrawood
accent: Maple pinstripe
body: Mahogany
neck: 5-piece Maple
scale: 34" Long
fingerboard: Ebony, lined fretless
laterality: left
finish: Satin natural polyurethane
pickups: MXY4
controls: "Epic" volume, pan, bass, treble, mono output
originally made for: Steve's Music (could be Canada or Massachusetts)
birthday: May 3, 1996

For the Mark King Signature Standard:
top: Quilted Maple
accent: Purpleheart laminate
body: Mahogany
body shape: Standard Point
neck: 3-piece Maple with 2 Walnut pinstripes
scale: 34" long
fingerboard: Ebony
laterality: left
inlays: Pearloid (plastic) ovals
pickups: AXY4
controls: "Signature" volume, pan, filter x2, Q-switch x2, mono output
originally made for: Bass Centre, London
birthday: May 26, 1995