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Alembic products => Showcase => Spoiler Basses => Topic started by: clarkybass on April 13, 2010, 12:07:15 PM

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: clarkybass on April 13, 2010, 12:07:15 PM

This will arrive Thursday or Friday. Very excited. My first Alembic. Sorry won't have serial no. until then.
 
leaves space for Art to post re-sized pics :-)

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: artswork99 on April 13, 2010, 12:17:23 PM

Good luck with its timely arrival!  Enjoy Mark!
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/78720.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/78721.jpg)
 
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/78722.jpg)

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: adriaan on April 13, 2010, 01:01:14 PM

Hey, that's another 3/4 size Spoiler. Interesting to see the grain through the flame figuring - nice!

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: lbpesq on April 13, 2010, 01:01:36 PM

Mark:
 
Really nice top!  Welcome to the club and play it in good health.
 
Bill, the guitar one

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: hydrargyrum on April 13, 2010, 02:50:09 PM

That's some crazy figuring on that top.  I bet it looks even better in person.  Best wishes.
 
Kevin

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: mica on April 13, 2010, 05:39:47 PM

Wow, that's a really neat top.

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: speicky on April 14, 2010, 04:30:02 AM

WOW ! There she is... absolutely breathtaking beauty, Mark. Lucky me that you sent the pictures to Art, I would have gotten blind  
 
cheers from Germany, from my Spoiler Bridget also  
 
Christian

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: paulman on April 14, 2010, 12:25:02 PM

First Alembics are the BEST!  Then you decide...I wonder what another one would sound like...
 
Congratulations, that's a looker for sure! (http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/78738.gif)

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: 12stringwilson on April 14, 2010, 01:26:55 PM

Mark -  
 
Congrats! That is one beautiful Spoiler. Good luck resisting the urge to want more Alembics.  
 
Welcome to the club.

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: clarkybass on April 14, 2010, 03:09:09 PM

Thank you guys, It arrived early (this afternoon; I am in the UK) and I have been playing it non-stop. It feels odd having such a narrow neck, after all my Precisions (I have four of them!), but I'm finding it very easy for fingerstyle and the tonal range is superb. The quilt top is every bit as nice as it looks in these pics too! Very pleased :-)

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: artswork99 on April 14, 2010, 04:25:27 PM

Congratulations on that timely (early, instead of Friday) arrival ;)  Play it Healthy!  Art
 
(Message edited by artswork99 on April 14, 2010)

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: sonicus on April 14, 2010, 05:10:31 PM

Beautiful , Congratulations!

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: crobbins on April 15, 2010, 01:11:48 PM

Congrats.. Very cool..

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: the_mule on April 15, 2010, 11:47:54 PM

Very cool indeed, your first Alembic is definitely in the same league of special as other firsts.  
 
Congrats & enjoy! Wilfred

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: clarkybass on April 17, 2010, 02:52:05 AM

Update - the serial number is 86S4118

Title: My incoming '86 Spoiler
Post by: lscolman on May 19, 2010, 07:15:36 AM

Hi Clarky,
Pleased you are enjoying my old spoiler.  I couldn't be without an Alembic for long, and have the most fantastic Mark King Signature Deluxe now...
 
Cheers, Lee