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Alembic products => Factory to Customer => Topic started by: mica on January 23, 2006, 02:01:44 PM

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mica on January 23, 2006, 02:01:44 PM

In setup, nearing shipping:  
(http://club.alembicguitars.com/Images/631/24361.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.com/Images/631/24362.jpg)

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mendez4 on January 23, 2006, 03:05:00 PM

thanks for all the updated pics, mica!  they all look amazing!

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: David Houck on January 23, 2006, 05:11:50 PM

Cool bass!!

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: Bradley Young on January 23, 2006, 06:38:19 PM

That is sick.  Great wood choices.

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mica on January 24, 2006, 02:24:31 PM

Yo, Adam! Funny thing happened when installing your tuners:
 
(http://club.alembicguitars.com/Images/631/24407.jpg)
 
The machine heads have a large screw on the inside edge that prevents them from being installed at a 90 degree angle to the neck. The heads bump eachother before we can rotate them straight across. We can either:
 
1. Leave it tilted as shown
2. Find some flathead screws and make them be straight across
 
Figured since we haven't drilled the anchor hole yet, might as well be your choice. Let me know what you prefer.

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mendez4 on January 25, 2006, 07:28:39 AM

Hi Mica.
If option 2 is possible (find flathead screws), i would like to go with that.
Thanks!
Adam

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mica on January 25, 2006, 12:25:51 PM

We're working on it now. There's a small nylon washer under the screw that we're shaving down a little, and we may slightly knock the domed part of the screw down. This get them very nearly straight - you might not even notice the minor deflection.  
 
BTW, would you like a silver logo on this? I think it would look better with the tuner finish.

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mendez4 on January 25, 2006, 06:07:20 PM

i would like to stick with brass logo no script (old school).  unless you think that it just will not look right at all.  thanks!

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: mica on January 25, 2006, 06:08:21 PM

Bronze is good, James will install it in the morning.

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: precarius on January 26, 2006, 09:55:39 AM

Pardon my ignorance, but how is the tailpiece shaped? Maybe it is just the picture but it looks like it is a 45 degree angle? Anyway that is a beautiful bass!

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: adriaan on January 27, 2006, 02:12:12 AM

Looks like a regular bar tailpiece to me, but I could be wrong.

Title: Fretless for Adam
Post by: kmh364 on January 27, 2006, 05:46:15 AM

Despite the optical illusion of the 2-D pix, Alembics tailpieces tend to slope down in the front (i.e., the edge facing the bridge) like a wedge. For example, the famous Alembic bird tailpiece, which would appear in photos for all intensive purposes to be level and flat (when looked at from above in plan view), is actually a wedge in cross-sectional view (i.e., when viewed from the side)