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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: shae on December 08, 2007, 05:08:30 AM

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: shae on December 08, 2007, 05:08:30 AM

Hello,  
 
I just purchased this Persuader, 86P3842. 2 jazz pickups and a crown headstock? Any information you have on it would be greatly appreciated.
 
Thanks

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: artswork99 on December 08, 2007, 05:34:36 PM

Hi Shae,
This is not the build information but it's a thread where it was for sale in 2003.  A piece of its history.
 
Congratulations on your new acquisition. Post pictures!
Play it healthy!

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: shae on December 12, 2007, 08:59:04 AM

Okay, not only is the crown headstock and jazz activators throwing me for a loop. Controls are volume/pan/q. Blows my Fender Precision w/ P/AE-1 activators out of the water. Picture attached. Please gotta know more of the history.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/394/46572.jpg)

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: David Houck on December 12, 2007, 10:23:22 AM

That would be volume/pan/filter.  The Q switch is separate from the low pass filter.  Volume/Pan/Filter is the standard Essence package.  It's a bit unusual to see that particular package in '86; perhaps the controls were subsequently updated to the Essence package.  The two J pickups are not unusual for a Persuader.

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: shae on December 12, 2007, 12:30:50 PM

Dave,
 
What about the crown headstock on a Persuader?
 
Shae

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: David Houck on December 12, 2007, 12:47:38 PM

It may have been a custom order.  There is a lot of variation in Persuaders, especially pickup types and body shapes.  We'll see what Mica's serial number search turns up.

Title: (x) 86P3842
Post by: mica on July 01, 2008, 03:15:59 PM

Hi Shae,
 
Here's what I found in the instrument file:
 
86P3842 PMB4 Persuader bass
 
top: Walnut
body: Mahogany
through body neck: 3-piece Maple, 32 medium scale
fingerboard: Ebony with pearloid oval inlays
pickups: 2 Alembic JZ  
controls: volume x2, filter, mono output
birthday: January 7, 1986
originally made for: Sound City
 
The original owner was in Louisiana. It was registered to a second owner in TX in 2004.  
 
There's no record of the electronics change to a volume/pan arrangement. If you post a picture of the interior, I can confirm with you what controls are mounted on the bass now.  
 
The Persuader model was typically a Spoiler body shape like yours with our Activator pickups and electronics systems installed. So you'll find them with a variety of pickup configurations, commonly with JZ, PJ, or double P setups.  
 
The Crown headstock would have been specified by the store who purchased the bass. A stock Persuader would have a cone peghead shape.