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Alembic products => Showcase => Orion Basses and Guitars => Topic started by: ctjim on March 09, 2007, 04:15:08 PM

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: ctjim on March 09, 2007, 04:15:08 PM

Well all here's a body shot of my 04 Orion.(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/37276.jpg)

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: jags on March 10, 2007, 05:19:07 AM

pretty pretty. does it have LEDS?looks like an electronic upgrade

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: adriaan on March 10, 2007, 08:16:34 AM

Jags - EMW is shorthand for East Meets West. East as in east-coast super-Jazz builders, usually with a two-band EQ, West as in a certain west-coast builder that is well known for its preference for LP filters.
 
Kind of Alembic's take on Sadowsky, originally at the request of one of their dealers.

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: jags on March 10, 2007, 09:35:33 AM

ok then.... still a bit lost. what's included in the controls,and the switches then?

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: dadabass2001 on March 10, 2007, 10:26:47 AM

jags,
EMW has separate bass & treble controls (like a stock Epic, Orion, or Excel), 1 volume, 1 pan, and 1 low pass filter with Q switch. I believe ctjim's also has side LEDs with an on/off switch.
Mike

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: David Houck on March 10, 2007, 01:54:52 PM

Very nice!  Great quilt!

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: ctjim on March 10, 2007, 02:22:16 PM

Thanks Adriaan, Dave, John, Mike for the compliments, but a small co. out west deserves the credit.
 
John, yes it does have amber side LED's and golden agoyya inlays. I just wish it were a short scale, which would make it perfect for me.

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: ctjim on March 10, 2007, 02:36:31 PM

Wait, Kevin (Kmh364), also deserves some of the blame for this bass. Way back when... he ordered this identical bass (?), only he wanted JZ pup's rather than MXY's. Well, the rest is history...
Thanks Alembic/Kevin. Life is sweet.

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: crobbins on March 19, 2007, 09:13:37 PM

Nice looking bass. Very cool........

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: kmh364 on May 11, 2007, 11:25:38 AM

Just saw this thread...you're very welcome.  
 
Still that's a real beaut! Enjoy!
 
One of these days I'm gonna post pix of my two Custom Orion twins (does that make them Gemini's instead? LOL!):
 
Son of EMW and EMW #4 (4).
 
FWIW, CTJIM's custom Orion differs from all the other EMW's in that it has a mahogany body and the controls are set in a smiley face layout.  
 
Somehow, Susan ordered my EMW with the MXY's and Mahogany body and then they made me a new one when she realized what happened. This one got finished to the remainder of my original order specs, minus the boo-boos. I subsequently added a gold-plated SS surface mount logo with shell, PH neck pinstripes, THG knobs, and an ATA flight case to Ke(vi)n's Custom Orion to finish my order.
 
Cheers,
 
Kevin

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: stoney on February 22, 2011, 07:00:49 AM

Just an FYI, I now own this bass.

Title: 04 EMW-2 w/5A Quilted Maple top
Post by: mtjam on April 18, 2012, 06:19:37 PM

Proud to be the new owner of this beauty! Can't wait to try it out in public this weekend.