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Alembic products => Factory to Customer => Topic started by: mica on May 12, 2009, 05:43:59 PM

Title: Erik's Walnut Signature Bass
Post by: mica on May 12, 2009, 05:43:59 PM

Starting to take form in assembly:  
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/65111.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/65112.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/65113.jpg)
  And now even better with a little finish in place:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/65114.jpg)
  Such a pretty piece of Walnut!

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Post by: David Houck on May 12, 2009, 06:23:47 PM

Wow!  I absolutely love that top!

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Post by: gregduboc on May 12, 2009, 06:25:41 PM

Amazing... it looks like three tops on one!!!
Erik, you are going to own an absolutely stunning bass.
Greg

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Post by: lbpesq on May 13, 2009, 07:04:16 AM

That top is suuuuhhhweeeeeetttt!  
 
Bill, tgo

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Post by: sd83 on May 14, 2009, 12:13:21 PM

Oh yeah! I know why I love walnut

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Post by: hifiguy on May 16, 2009, 10:31:46 PM

That is a completely freaky piece of flamed (superb?) walnut. Wow!

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Post by: crobbins on May 26, 2009, 06:54:18 PM

Very cool..

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Post by: erik on May 28, 2009, 05:05:57 AM

Yes, it looks lovely with the finish on, doesen't it and Greg I can't agree more but if it's wet, Bill, I really don't know. It's flamed walnut and it certainly looks like a beautiful choice. Of course it's cool, it's an Clarke Standard Model.
Erik himself

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Post by: jacko on May 29, 2009, 06:50:09 AM

Congratulations on a superb looking bass erik and welcome to the club;-)
 
Graeme
 
p.s. I think Bill was trying to say 'sweet' in his californian drawl ;-)
 
(Message edited by jacko on May 29, 2009)

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Post by: mica on June 04, 2009, 07:24:28 PM

So far this bass has been flying through the shop, here it is with the finish rubbed out:
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/631/65984.jpg)
It's resting from the rubout before we polish the finish to the final high gloss.

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Post by: erik on June 18, 2009, 06:37:31 AM

Thank You Thomas for the last photograph. Magnus, from the store, and I was wondering about the number where the upper pickup is supposed to be. I can se 14593. Can You enlighten us about that figure? 04/09 must be the start of the project, if I'm right, but what does Jos stand for?

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Post by: keith_h on June 18, 2009, 07:50:44 AM

14593 is the serial number assigned to your bass. I would guess the JOS are initials of the person who carved it.  
 
Keith

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Post by: jazzyvee on June 18, 2009, 10:57:55 AM

I thought all the signature standard basses now came with purpleheart neck laminates. Did you request the pinstripes instead?
 
Jazzyvee

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Post by: mica on June 18, 2009, 11:04:31 AM

The cavity with the work order number 14593 written in it is for the bass pickup. 04/09 is when the bass was carved and JDS are the initials of the carver himself.  
 
The serial number is assigned when the bass is completed.  
 
Signature Standard basses have the Walnut pinstripes. It's one of the things that distinguishes the Standard from the Deluxe.

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Post by: jazzyvee on June 18, 2009, 03:48:23 PM

Cheers Mica.
 
Jazzyvee

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Post by: erik on June 30, 2009, 03:41:50 AM

Yes, I understand that 14593 is some kind of serial number, but does it stand for something special, like the 14593:rd Signature Standard Bass that You are making or something like that? That the cavity is for the upper pickup I also understand, but is the serial number in some way tied to the pickup? If that's the case the other cavity should have a number as well.
 
  About flying basses! This one has some more flying to do when it's ready, right?
 
Erik

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Post by: keith_h on June 30, 2009, 05:28:48 AM

Erik,
Mica corrected me on the serial number. While close to the current range that is not what it is. Mica says the number is the work order number. There is nothing significant with it's location far as I know. The bass I'm having built has information written in the same location.
 
As far as serial numbers go. Once one is assigned it represents the number of your instrument since the first Alembic was built. Her is a link (http://www.alembic.com/support/reference.html#sernum) to the serial number description.
 
Keith

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Post by: erik on July 02, 2009, 02:27:23 AM

OK, as I understand it, my bass will have the serialnumber 09SJ14593.
 
Erik

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Post by: jacko on July 02, 2009, 02:34:15 AM

No. 14593 is the work order. your serial number will be whatever the next number since the first Alembic is.
as an example, if you check down my rogue (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=7050) build thread, you'll see the number in the pup cavity is 13909. When the instrument was finished it was allocated  05Q13403.
 
There is no way of anticipating the serial number until the instrument is finished.
 
Graeme

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Post by: erik on August 27, 2009, 04:00:46 AM

I went to the local musicstore here in Gavle three days ago, the 24:th of July, to fetch the bass I've ordered from You. It is the most beautiful bass I ever seen. To play it is an almost undescribeable experience, a feeling of some kind of micrometric perfection. And then, the sound. Thank you very much.
 
I have two questions. I am trying to figure out the logo. A hand stretching down from a cloud holding a dart-board with a destilling-retort in front of it. And then there is an A in the retort. Is that right and how come?  
 
The second question is about the name of Your instruments and Your company. Why Alembic and what does it aim at?
 
Thank you again, Erik

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Post by: adriaan on August 27, 2009, 04:27:24 AM

Erik,
 
Here's the Story of the logo (http://www.alembic.com/info/logomeaning.html target=_blank).
 
After you've finished reading (and another hour or two of being unable to stop playing that marvellous new Alembic) could you take some pictures and post them in the Showcase section?

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Post by: David Houck on August 27, 2009, 06:55:04 AM

Congrats Erik!  I too would love to see pictures of the finished bass!

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Post by: toma_hawk01 on August 27, 2009, 11:58:59 AM

Please don't show me any picture...
 
That's like pouring salt on a wound for me...
 
I already know it looks incredible and it's not mine...  
 
I am happy for you -- I know you weathered the storm of waiting... Please show us those wonderful pictures!  
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on August 27, 2009)

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Post by: Enzo on August 27, 2009, 10:57:05 PM

What a beautiful top !

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Post by: erik on August 28, 2009, 04:27:53 AM

Thank You Adriaan for the logo-information. The purification-process explains the name Alembic.
 
My working-computer has just come home from service and I haven't had time to reinstall the programs yet so You have to wait a couple of days for me sending pictures on my new bass.
 
Erik.

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Post by: erik on September 19, 2009, 05:28:50 AM

There is some pictures in Showcase`Signature basses`Stanley Clarke Signature Standard, since the 7th of September 2009.
 
Thank You everyone involved at Alembic,
 
Erik.