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Alembic products => Showcase => Custom Basses => Topic started by: mica on October 21, 2003, 09:33:14 PM

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: mica on October 21, 2003, 09:33:14 PM

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/6367.jpg)
 
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Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 21, 2003, 11:53:18 PM

Gorgeous!!

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 12:26:32 AM

Yeah,
the purpleheart looks really great!
But in this case it seems that it is not the normal Exploiter body but the Spyder body
(the lower cutaway between those two are different).
BTW I like this one more than the normal Exploiter style.
 
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 01:45:05 AM

Question for everyone - what electronics are in this bass?
 
Question for Mica - would you be prepared to disclose the value of this instrument (even if it's via e-mail and confidential of course). The reason I ask is that I'm considering something like this for my 40th birthday in 18 months time.
 
Cheers,
 
Rog

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 02:12:58 AM

Rog,
exact the same electronics than on the Spyders:
the 20th Anniversary ones
(2 vol, 2 tone, 2 Q, P/U selector, 1 stereo/mono switch, 1 switch for the side LED?s).
Oops, you got me. Of course I don?t know if this particular one has LED\s.
As for me if I would order a new bass I would like to have an extra master vol pot on the lower horn like John had.
 
Take care
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 02:31:10 AM

Mica,Val,
does this particular one have side LED\s?
Is it long scale? It looks like medium to me...
 
Many thanks for your info.
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 03:28:25 AM

More questions...
 
What pick-ups are the 20th Anniversary electronics then?  Same as the Signature or the same as Seris I?
 
What's the core wood?

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 03:37:45 AM

Rog,
the pickups used on the 20th and also on the Spyders are no Series. Series have single coil p/u?s while those on the 20th and Spyders are humbuckers. This is also another reason why the Spyder are the closest thing you can get to an orignal JE one; but not the same.
So it still makes sense to order an original one with the single coils.
On the Spyders the core wood is walnut, but on this particular it might be also walnut but with another layer of maple between the walnut and the purpleheart.
 
So let?s save some money for an exact replica of John?s original basses......
 
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 04:52:35 AM

Thanks for the info!
 
I'm not sure about saving some money Oliver - probably need to rob a bank  ;-)

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 05:06:37 AM

Okay,
let?s get together.  
I also need some.....
Maybe we go to Lloyds bank or.......
OK, at the moment I have my Spyder 8 still in the pipeline for which I still need some money.
But an exact JE Spyder.......
But there is still the Hard Rock Cafe, you know?
:-)
 
Take care
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 05:30:23 AM

Cheap flight to Berlin coming right up!!!!!!!!!!

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 05:40:33 AM

Maybe we should do the european Alembic meeting at the HRC in Berlin?  
I think they will not even notice when the JE Spyder is missing...... :-)  
 
Oliver(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/6371.jpg)
 
(Message edited by senmen on October 22, 2003)

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 06:16:41 AM

Is that the bass that failed at Live Aid or the one he played?

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 06:24:47 AM

Hi Roq,
 
this is exact the bass that failed at Live Aid.
Do you know what happened back then?
Was it the electronics?
So is it worth to have it repaired?  :-)
 
I MUST HAVE IT........
 
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 06:26:49 AM

I've read that it was something stupid like a flat battery!  Don't know that for sure though.

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 06:31:50 AM

So, what are we doing here?
Let?s go to Berlin.....  :-)
 
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: rogertvr on October 22, 2003, 06:34:51 AM

I did say that it's only something that I've read!!!!!!

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: David Houck on October 22, 2003, 06:49:23 AM

In the US we have this new thing called Homeland Security.  If your going to discuss over the web the procurement of funds through illicit means, you would be well advised to use a code of some kind.  The appearance of the phrase rob a bank probably means this thread has already been downloaded and electronically analyzed in Langley, Virginia.  Identities are being established and physical addresses determined; agents on the ground are being notified and mobilized.  Don't be surprised if there is a knock at your door in the next five to ten minutes.

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on October 22, 2003, 07:10:23 AM

Hi Dave,
not bad! Not bad!
I found out some other interesting news about JE?s Spyders (the two ones with the pointed headstock)
 
It seems that the one which is at the HRC was his main bass back then. This is exact the same bass he used in the video sequenques of the Shepherds Bush concert etc.
This one has some significantly body differences to the other one:
 
1. The neck pickup is mounted closer to the end
   of the neck than on the second one
2. The dummy pickup is slightly broader than  
   on the second one.
3. The upper body horn joins the neck at the
   21th fret while the second one joins at the
   20th fret.
4. The body on the HRC bass is slightly longer
   than the second one (note the positions of
   the power supply jack!)
 
Oliver

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: bishopqdog on October 25, 2003, 07:02:18 AM

The purpleheart is very noteworthy indeed

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: ox_junior on April 19, 2004, 02:35:34 PM

I heard that the bass failed at Live Aid because one of his techs had done some custom rewiring for some reason, and had mistakenly crossed the wires that went to the battery.  This wasn't discovered until he went to plug the bass in on-stage to do to the show!
 
Oliver, you're closer to Berlin than I am.  Perhaps if you end up with this bad boy, you'll be persuaded to let go of your Spyder???
 
Ha!  Mike

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: senmen on April 20, 2004, 06:37:27 AM

Mike,
I would like to. But for this I would need some good stockings as Paul TBO would say now.... :-)
 
Oliver (Spyderman)

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: exploiterplayer on May 03, 2005, 02:37:20 PM

Very Nice Purpleheart Exploiter! A have had people mistake my 83' 5-A Flame Top Exploiter for a Spyder bass as well.

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: hasadari on July 03, 2005, 04:38:23 PM

Spectacular!

Title: Purpleheart Exploiter Custom
Post by: ed_r on October 20, 2005, 08:50:13 PM

Amazing indeed. Oliver! Check your email!