That bass is so elegant and wonderful

Just needs the custom-cast pickups now:

Looking so good!

Custom cast pickups?  Do tell!!

Just the oldie style - all black and shiny, no Alembic decoration.

Nice bass, It look like Mark King personnal 1990 bass:
 

Wow, nnnnnnnnnnice bass!
 
MK's bass is beautiful too - I wish he still played Alembic onstage. The sound from his Status during the tour of the UK at the end of 08 wasnt the best to be honest.
 
John.

I guess these guys are like the rest of us in some ways, we have a choice of instruments and want to give them all an airing now and again. Maybe that was Status bass day.

'Fraid not Jazzy. MK uses his Status' (statii?) exclusively now ;-(  And for John, We saw the first night of the tour and I agree, the mix was appalling. Apparently, by the time he got back to england they were getting a really good mix.  
 
graeme

I love this bass.  Seems like there aren't many standard point bodies in the FTC section these days...seems like there's a lot more MK's.

Will. The standard MK has a 'standard point' body. I think you're maybe getting confused with the Balance K body of which there do seem to have been quite a few made since it was introduced.  
 
Graeme

I wish there was an updated list of Body Types

This bass has shaped into exactly what i was looking for when i placed the order, infact even better if that's possible! Well done PierreYves it was a bass pic of MKs that i sent to Alembic to use as a template for similar wood matches as i always thought his cocobolo Alembic was one of the finest examples i'd seen! But i never in my wildest dreams thought they would be able to get that close!
 
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Any news on this bass?

The bass is done:

 
With the very light gauge strings, it's has to enjoy sitting here a little longer for observation. In all likelihood, it should depart before the end of the week.

There's an extra knob when compared to the picture Mica posted on Jan 12th.  What does the new knob do?