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Alembic products => Showcase => Distillate Basses and Guitars => Topic started by: precarius on January 03, 2006, 10:13:07 AM

Title: 1981 Distillate 81D1949
Post by: precarius on January 03, 2006, 10:13:07 AM

After 3 weeks of cleaning, polishing, soldering, adjusting, and inlay cutting, I feel like it is finally worthy to post here with the other great basses. Mike
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  (Message edited by davehouck on January 03, 2006)

Title: 1981 Distillate 81D1949
Post by: marcky on January 03, 2006, 10:29:51 AM

looks very good!!
 
Marc

Title: 1981 Distillate 81D1949
Post by: David Houck on January 03, 2006, 11:14:50 AM

Nice bass!

Title: 1981 Distillate 81D1949
Post by: palembic on January 03, 2006, 11:48:28 AM

Nice!!!!
Long or medium scale???
Anyway ...it looks just as one of those basses used in early guitarplayer Alembic ads.
 
Paul TBO

Title: 1981 Distillate 81D1949
Post by: precarius on January 03, 2006, 12:26:56 PM

Paul- It is a medium scale. I bought a spoiler a few months ago and I am hooked on medium scales. I have short, stubby, vienna sausage-size fingers and I can actually reach across five frets on these necks. Once I've gone medium I can never go back!
Mike
 
P.S. Dave- thanks for your editting skills.

Title: 1981 Distillate 81D1949
Post by: matthew90046 on January 04, 2006, 03:09:45 PM

What a beautiful bass.  It looks like it came straight from the factory.  I bet it sounds even better than it looks.