Alembic Guitars Club
Alembic products => Alembic Basses & Guitars => Topic started by: David Houck on November 08, 2013, 06:19:23 PM
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The Featured Custom for November (http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_rachel.html) is up, and it's a gorgeous Further! I love the top; and it matches up beautifully with the plated hardware and the inlays. In fact, the hardware really pulls together the lines in the top laminate and the pickups and controls; it all really works well together. Beautiful guitar! Congrats to both Richard and Rachel!
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Rachel is a very lucky girl and she has a dad with the finest of taste. She is now spoiled for life with regard to electric guitars, however.
What a simple and stunningly lovely instrument. That flame maple back is a gasser.
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Congratulations Rachel! Great choice of a Christmas present Richard ;)
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And a beautiful guitar it is!!!
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That's a beautiful guitar! Rachel is a very lucky young lady!
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Oh my goodness. This is the first time in my life that I wished I was a 10 year old girl. Way to go Dad! I hope there's a father of the year mug in your future. Heck, I might buy you one. :-)
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Beautiful instrument, and a great father for getting his daughter something that nice.
Someday, I will order another series II that will definitely make the custom of the month list!
Congrats, Rachel. Enjoy it - and remember .... it is the instrument of a lifetime.
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AJ you are so right. That is a precious heirloom to be passed down through generations. Alembics are the Stradivari of electric instruments.
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And here for 20 years I've been telling myself I was a really hip dad because I got my 9-y-o son a MIK Strat....................
Enjoy, Rachel!
Peter
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The guitar doesn't maketh the man... or girl for that matter. But whether it's a strat or alembic, having a start with an instrument that is going to assist your learning rather than frustrate your progress has got to be a great opportunity for a beginner. Victor Wooten learnt to play bass on an alembic at age 13.
So she is in great company.
http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/13503.html?1257644009 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8070)
Jazzyvee
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You are so right, Jazzy. I was lucky and started on a Precision. It was a little too big, neckwise, for my teenaged hands and was quickly swapped for a shop-damaged but lovely feeling Jazz Bass and the bond was made.
The right instrument is the difference between long-term love and complete frustration when you are a young player.
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A beautiful instrument and one lucky young lady. However, having two daughters of my own I can't help but think what the conversation will be next Christmas.... actually dad, I've always wanted to play the Bass :-)
Graeme
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As if I needed any further incentive to get one of these...
Wow - really beautiful. +1 on the hardware. Details like that are what elevate these instruments beyond custom to functional works of art.
Enjoy it for many years to come!
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Magnificent...
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That's one hell of a Christmas gift!