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Alembic products => Factory to Customer => Topic started by: mica on October 15, 2004, 06:05:24 PM

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: mica on October 15, 2004, 06:05:24 PM

Wow!
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/13444.jpg)
 I love Bird's-eye Maple, and this is an exceptional piece.  The neck is no slouch either:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/13445.jpg)

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: tom_z on October 15, 2004, 06:19:42 PM

Ooooooo!!!!! That is a particularly beautiful piece of maple. Am I seeing red? Is the body vermilion? and the neck lams? Whatever the combination, it really is beautiful.
 
Tom

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: mica on October 15, 2004, 06:30:31 PM

Yeah, the body is Vermilion, and the accent lams are alternating Vermilion and Maple.  
 
The neck is Bird's-eye Maple with Vermilion laminates and a Cherry center laminate. The whole thing is just awesome.

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: hollis on October 15, 2004, 06:37:44 PM

This is the kind of thing that I shouldn't be allowed to see.....  I want one soooo bad.  
 
I love everything about Furthers anyway.... and now, this beauty!  This guitar is amazing.
The wood is unreal.  WOW! is right Mica.
 
I gotta go count my change jar.... I might have enough for a good pair of stockings.

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: kmh364 on October 15, 2004, 06:50:30 PM

Very Nice!

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: caveman on October 17, 2004, 05:10:58 PM

Beautiful! It looks Exactly as I pictured it in my head!What's the back look like? My two favorite woods, in one guitar! Thank you!!!

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: hollis on October 18, 2004, 12:06:54 PM

Charles,
 
Welcome to club.... And what an entrance!  Your guitar is beautiful, thanks for sharing it's birth with us.

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: palembic on October 18, 2004, 02:43:03 PM

Mmmmmm ...should I start playing guitar now???  
Amazingly beautiful of the Far-out kind!!!
 
Paul the bad one

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: caveman on October 18, 2004, 05:41:22 PM

Thank you, Hollis,and everyone! Everything these people build is beautiful! Have these guys ever built anything not beautiful? I can't wait to see the inlay Susan is designing!
It's a caveman. apparently, buying an Alembic is to commission a work of art! Do they build amps?

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: hollis on October 18, 2004, 06:00:22 PM

No amps, but their pre-amps are just as awesome.

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: tom_z on October 18, 2004, 09:23:38 PM

Welcome Charles - Yes, you nailed it. Ordering a custom Alembic is commissioning a work of art. I am still thrilled every time I open the case and see my custom Skylark. Every detail is sublime - in the visual sense, the tone, and the playability.  
 
Can't wait to see your Further through the process.
 
Tom

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: lbpesq on October 18, 2004, 09:54:43 PM

Charles:
 
  Lookin' good!  I really like the look of the Vermilion neck lams.  Are you expecting any different sound from the usual Purpleheart lams? I also dig the Bird's-eye Maple.  I have an '83 Electrum with a Bird's-eye top.  I haven't seen a lot of Alembics in Bird's-eye.  Your's looks like an exceptional piece.  In the words of the Beatles:  It won't be long, yea, yea, yea ...  (Well, maybe a little long - but it will undoubtedly be well worth the wait).
 
Bill, the guitar one.

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: caveman on October 19, 2004, 05:43:26 AM

Susan told me to expect the vermilion to warm the tone up a bit, as purpleheart tends to be a bright wood. I've seen high end marimbas made of vermilion that ring like bells. They did pick out an exceptional birdseye face.(sniff) lot's of swirly-quilty movement around the birdseyes, and like Mica said, the neck's no slouch either! I was worried that there might not be enough definition between the neck lams and the body lams, but I should know better by now!

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: jeff on October 19, 2004, 06:11:37 AM

Exceptional piece is right on the money, Mica! Isn't it great when Alembicians see their unique and beautiful wood combinations come to life?  You are a fortunate soul, Charles.  Enjoy!

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: susan on October 21, 2004, 07:55:42 AM

Charles,
 
Your beautiful guitar has caused a few players to now  consider the Birds Eye Vermilion combo for their own instrument. Looks like you may have started a trend.
 
-susan

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: caveman on October 22, 2004, 05:44:33 AM

Cool!

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: grateful on January 12, 2005, 02:51:43 AM

I just love the fractal like swirls in the Birds Eye maple, so much so that I've chosen it for my Further. It is much more beautiful (to my eyes) than quilted maple. Has this wonderful instrument been finished yet?

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: 1stbass on January 12, 2005, 04:07:24 AM

That is a beautful guitar. The birds eye looks like little jewels all over. A great peice.
lots of luck.
Doug

Title: Custom Further for Charles
Post by: valvil on January 12, 2005, 05:34:55 PM

Oh yes, finished and delivered.
 
Valentino