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Alembic products => Showcase => Essence Basses => Topic started by: digbass on October 28, 2009, 10:42:36 AM

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on October 28, 2009, 10:42:36 AM

This is my new Essence 5 with walnut top and retro fitted LED's by S.I.M's which the previous owner had done, I must say they did a top job, very happy with it and it plays and sounds like a dream, I think you'll agree the walnut top is very special.  
 
 
(Message edited by digbass on October 29, 2009)

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on October 28, 2009, 10:54:20 AM

That didnt work did it? Hmm any suggestions out there?

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: adriaan on October 29, 2009, 01:44:34 AM

The image appears to have the extension .JP2, which is not commonly supported. Try saving the original as a regular .JPG and upload that for your next post.

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on October 29, 2009, 03:36:48 AM

Right here goes again, Thanks adriaan, you were quite right, mind you they seem very big, no need for a magnifying glass with these babies! Serial No. is 98K11786.
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/72009.jpg)
 
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(Message edited by digbass on October 29, 2009)

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: adriaan on October 29, 2009, 05:17:06 AM

Nice one! Could you edit your message, to insert line breaks before each of the images?

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: jacko on October 29, 2009, 06:01:45 AM

Nice essence Digby! And welcome to the club. I have relatives in Darlington and Northallerton so maybe we can get together next time I'm down your way. There are a few other members in your neck of the woods; off the top of my head, Terry Capewell is in stockton and Mark Stannage ('grateful') is in robin hood's bay and i'm sure there's someone else in the Osmotherley area.
If you're free on the 22nd November, consider a trip across to Manchester for Bass day. There'll be a few of us there - further details can be found in this thread (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=9834).
 
graeme (ex-pat northumbrian near edinburgh)

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on October 29, 2009, 10:26:19 AM

Cool, Yeah I may get over to see bass day, i'll have to check out who's playing this year, its good to know there are some local guys about in the club then, I was actually born in Northallerton. Still getting to grips with the club and it s format, its all new to me , so excuse me if I make some mistakes along the way!

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: funkyjazzjunky on October 29, 2009, 10:30:13 AM

Welcome  
 
What a beautiful bass.  Is it a low B or hich C?

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on October 29, 2009, 10:40:16 AM

Thank you. Its a Low B. I've finally managed to get my hands on an Alembic, having played bass for 22 years and I've got a feeling it wont be my last. I'll have to sell some of my other basses first though or my wife will kill me!

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: dadabass2001 on October 30, 2009, 02:13:06 PM

Welcom Digby, and congratulations on a beautiful Essence. What a sweet top!
They do grow on you (I've got  three Alembics)
Mike

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: pauldo on October 30, 2009, 05:38:10 PM

Digby - welcome to the club.
I 'dig' the led's, got any pictures of the back?
Let us know what you are selling;  
- one man's Got to go!  
- is another man's Look what I got!

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on November 01, 2009, 12:27:26 PM

Heres a picture of the back, all pretty standard as far as this model goes, beautiful never the less!
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/72116.jpg)

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: David Houck on November 13, 2009, 07:44:42 PM

Hi Digby; welcome to the board and congrats on the Essence!  Cool top!

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: pauldo on November 14, 2009, 08:20:48 AM

Clean!
Very nice indeed

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on December 18, 2009, 07:12:38 AM

More Photos!
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/74235.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/74236.jpg)

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: oddmetersam on December 18, 2009, 08:29:12 AM

Hey, Digby!
She's absolutely stunning.  There's an understated  elegance to the Essence shape and with walnut the more you look, the deeper and more organic it appears. I love the way the curvature of the tailpiece echoes the curvature of the body.

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: poor_nigel on January 03, 2010, 12:14:16 AM

Greetings Digby:
 
I do love a bass with a wonderful walnut top to it.  Yours is outstanding.  I had possibly the first Alembic bass Martin Sims put LEDs on, and it is still listed on the 5th page of their gallery.  They do an excellent job with LEDs, and they really add to the coolness of your bass.  I wish they had a Sims shop in the US.  Thanks for sharing your pix with us and welcome to the club!

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: digbass on January 03, 2010, 05:11:15 AM

Cheers Thomas, thanks for the comments.
 
Ha, funny you should mention it but my Alembic also appears on page 5 of the gallery on the Sims website, on the right hand side, third row up from the bottom.

Title: My Essence 5 with Walnut top and blue LED's
Post by: poor_nigel on January 03, 2010, 11:30:31 AM

My old bass is pictured just to the left of yours and also starts that row.  Third picture of it is in the next row in the second position.  What a coincidence!  Here is its thread, for a better look.  Not a lovely bass, like your beauty, but it played and sounded wonderfully.  Note that I removed the brass bar used to put long scale string on this short scale bass - back to its original configuration, so it looks a touch different than in Sims' shots.
 
http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/13368.html?1165501171 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8454)