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Alembic products => Owning an Alembic => Serial Number / History Requests => Topic started by: jim_b on August 22, 2006, 08:03:37 AM

Title: (x) 8583808 or (u) 8583806
Post by: jim_b on August 22, 2006, 08:03:37 AM

Curious about the history of this  for-sale item.

Title: (x) 8583808 or (u) 8583806
Post by: effclef on August 22, 2006, 10:31:18 AM

Jim...too many numbers! Usually it's the year, then one or more letters, then the serial #.
 
I bet it's 85Sxxxxx, for a Spoiler bass!
 
Serial number guide:
 
http://www.alembic.com/support/reference.html#sernum
 
 
EffClef
 
(Message edited by effclef on August 22, 2006)

Title: (x) 8583808 or (u) 8583806
Post by: mica on August 22, 2006, 11:21:45 AM

We've got 85S3808 details here:
 
top: Walnut
accent: not recorded (probably no accent laminate)
body: Mahogany
neck: Maple, 32 medium scale
fingerboard: Ebony, pearloid oval inlays
pickups: AXY (fiel doesn't say 1 or 2)
electronics: AE-1. That means one or two volumes (depending on the number of pickups) and a filter control
birthday: December 6, 1983
Originally sold to: not recorded
 
Registered as a used instrument in 1993 in Illinois.  
 
85S3806 is not in the files, but there's a big stack of refiling to attend to.