Take a good look. The first picture in the first thread is probably three to four months into the project... if not more. My current build was two months just in discussion and thats far from some of the posts we have seen.
 
This is very extremely correct.
 
Pierre-Yves, your bass is beautiful.

I was so fortunate for my bass to come through in a very short time.  I  ordered it at the most down time of the economy etc. and the build went very smoothly.  If I thought it was going to take a few years, I'd still totally would have ordered it.  Mica had some very good luck catching my bass at good points to take photos. The FTC thread is an amazing part of the Alembic site and service in addition to phone calls and emails that makes the experience so personal and worth it.  In fact, looking forward to a session later with my Rogue 6-string fretless.  
 
Pierre-Yves, enjoying keeping track of the progress of your new bass!

Beautiful bass
 
Mpingo is such wonderful wood.

mpingo: http://www.africanblackwood.com/english/index.asp
enjoy

Elegant... if it sounds half as good as it looks, this will be a special instrument.

Happy New Year new basses for 2011!
Something news for the new year ?

Hoping to get the rubout scheduled in the next week or two. The finish looks nice and hard now with a good cure.

sorry but what mean rubout scheduled and looks hard with a good cure ? My english does'nt perform that

The finish is already nice and hard, but they're letting it rest (cure) for at least two weeks, before doing a rub-out.
 
Here's a quick overview of how they do finishes, from the Factory Tour on the main site.

thank's adriaan, I understand now, but Alembic could change pictures of this factory tour, not a great publicity regarding the quality of the instruments

the fact that they put up pictures and explaination of the process is awesome, they could just leave you guessing on how they do things and at least you see that they are hand sprayed and not put in some machine that can make it uneven, guess i'm confused on how this reflects poorly of them
 
~Taylor

I'm just guessing Pierre is referring to the quality of the pictures on the factory tour page, as they are obviously a bit dated. seeing how mica has been updating other pages on the site recently, I'm sure she'll get around to updating that when she can.

exactly darkstar, maybe my meaning was not too much clear ?

Mica, any news/update ?

Just a couple of more instruments in line before yours. With just one person doing setup, there is a little queue, but your bass will be ready soon.  
 
I do need to update those old pictures! I haven't even looked at those pages in quite a while. There's lots of web updates that are in the works at this time. Good stuff!