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Alembic products => Showcase => Spoiler Basses => Topic started by: chalie on November 21, 2004, 06:32:03 PM

Title: Recond. Spoiler
Post by: chalie on November 21, 2004, 06:32:03 PM

I got this Spoiler as used a couple of years ago and last year I made a restoration of the finishing and it looks perfectly now.
(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14608.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14609.jpg)

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14610.jpg)

Title: Recond. Spoiler
Post by: lembic76450 on November 22, 2004, 06:27:25 AM

Chalie,
Nice job on the refin. Also very nice flame on the Koa. Check My new '86 Spoiler for another nice Alembic example of flame koa.
Do you have any other pics of the unfinised koa, up close?
         

Title: Recond. Spoiler
Post by: adriaan on November 22, 2004, 06:44:40 AM

Very nice bass, good job on the refinish, plus you have excellent taste in floorboards. And in the background, is that the koa Orion from an earlier thread? (http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14241.html?1100297499 (http://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=8834)) It seems to have grown a few extra dot markers over the past week.
 
The Spoiler looks kind of like walnut on mahogany to me, not koa - but of course I could be horribly wrong.
 
Enjoy!

Title: Recond. Spoiler
Post by: chalie on November 23, 2004, 05:26:41 AM

(http://club.alembic.com/Images/411/14651.jpg)
Thanks for your complement. Here is the bass before getting scraped. You do not see the cracks of the coating and scrashs from this picture but it was plenty and I did not own this bass from the begining so I consider not my marks so I prefered to restore it.
Thanks

Title: Recond. Spoiler
Post by: ed_r on October 22, 2005, 08:25:21 PM

Did it have a nitro finish or a poly finish before you refinished it?