that is, if yer into this sorta thing.  myself, i cant really make a 4-string work in my situation anymore, elsewise i'd be all over it.  looks legit but who knows?  good luck to all!

https://reverb.com/item/98329802-alembic-dragon-wing-2018-with-fretboard-leds

Looks like we might have a motivated seller.  The price has dropped $2K since it was first posted.  The last Dragon Wing in February sold for $12.5K......then "flipped" for $19K.  Anyone "jonesing" for a DW might want to act on this one.

i keep trying to tell myself 5hat i really really have no use for a 4-string anymore but i'm drawn like a moth to a flame on this one.
he'll hafta get a lot more motivated than that to me to bite, however.  fyi notice no OHSC and sold "as is, no returns".  danger, will robinson!

somebody needs to snag this before i have a moment of weakness. a DW is one of the very few alembic body types i haven't owned yet.  kinda curious.

good luck to all!
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now listed on evilbay, so the seller must be feeling the pressure.  or not.

almost makes me wanna shoot him an offer but then again if he bites now i have another knockout bass in my stable  with limited stage utility in my playing sitrep. between our two guit@rists our stage setup has 3 keyboards, a harp and and at least 5 guit@rs with vaarious tunings.  i try to hold my stage armada to 2 basses (1 fretted, 1 fretless),  i could easily see that expand to 3 or 4 without much more encouragement. oh, the mental anguish and  gnashing of teeth!  must be time to get baked again.

good luck to all!

Looks to be the same bass as this old listing: https://reverb.com/item/9674710-alembic-dragon-wing-2018-cocobolo

Seller shaved off another $250.00 bring it to $15,750.

QuoteSeller shaved off another $250.00 bring it to $15,750.

yeah i saw that.  i don't need any more encouragement, thank you very much.  i hafta say i'm sorely tempted by this one, even though practical tim keeps saying "it's a 4-string, you freaking moron!"  at this point in my career, i can only play about half my repertoire on a 4-string.  everything else is either drop tuned or transposed to a lower key to accomidate aging vocalists or lazy guit@rists.

OTOH collector tim is saying "that 5-string fretless hasn't showed up in 3 years of searching.  yer gonna kick hte bucket before one shakes loose at this rate.  quit being such a tightwad and pull hte bloody trigger already!"

gotta tell ya, it ain't easy being me.  just ask all those dudes living in my head.  this would amke alembic #15 to pass thru my hands since i bought my first essence in 1998.  at some point ya gotta give it up, one would think. good luck to all!

I struggled with a lot of similar concerns as you, Beendown, before I pulled the trigger on a reverb DragonWing.  Unless I missed one, I bought the one that popped up shortly before the maple one.  It's the sister of the current one, minus LEDs and continuous backplates.  I've gotta say it's the one bass that even months later I find myself staring at in awe.  It's actually been a lot of fun reworking songs on a 4 string (I find myself grabbing the D at the fifth fret of the A string a lot, but otherwise it's not too challenging).  My favorite thing is just how out of place it looks in just about any context, yet I'm constantly getting approached by people asking exactly wtf it is.  Lots of compliments about what a cool and unusual instrument it is.  Fun times.  I'm sure I'm not helping...

QuoteI'm sure I'm not helping...

no. you're not.

Yup. That maple wing was hard to pass up. The price was right too. I know where it is now after speaking to the current owner. BUT this one.....all lit up like a party ball!  It definitely is a Peacock!

Quote.....all lit up like a party ball!  It definitely is a Peacock!

well there's always that aspect.  it's taken a while for my bandies to come to grips with just what a bass narcissist i yam.  all ya gotta do is watch one of our videos.  that's what's drawing me like a moth to flame on this one.  yer not helping either btw.  good luck to all!

A Dragonwing as a Series bass would be cool 😊

come to poppa 

Quote from: BeenDown139 on June 30, 2026, 06:19:02 PMcome to poppa 

Ok. You just made me go to Reverb.....and as Colin Blunstone of the Zombies laments "She's Not There!"

You Only Live Once.....

Quote from: rv_bass on June 30, 2026, 05:28:00 PMA Dragonwing as a Series bass would be cool 😊

Is there adequate cavity space in a Dragonwing for series electronics?