Author Topic: Any idea what this is? (Read 140 times)

joannajetson · « **on:** May 13, 2006, 08:45:42 PM »

A North Bay music store is calling this an early Alembic and asking $3K. Any idea what it might be, really? The woodwork and inlay are really quite nice, the headstock looks Moonstone-ish, the electronics are okay...the pickups are Ibanez "flying fingers," and the logo has an eye inside it (hard to see in the picture). Just curious.

joannajetson · « **Reply #1 on:** May 13, 2006, 09:03:17 PM »

After posting this, I was browsing the previous posts and noticed the logo is the same as a bass that was on ebay awhile back - see the thread, Possible employee project? below from 3/19/06. Then I googled Michael Dolan's website and it looks like the logo is his. Mystery solved, I guess.

richbass939 · « **Reply #2 on:** May 14, 2006, 05:31:00 AM »

Joanna,
It certainly does show a strong Alembic influence, doesn't it? Welcome to the club.
Rich

lbpesq · « **Reply #3 on:** May 14, 2006, 08:52:36 AM »

Joanna:

First of all, welcome to the club!

Cool find, I especially like the circular control cavity plate. Could you tell us which store is this in? I'm in Santa Roisa on business later this week and if I have time I'd love to check this out in person. It also looks like some other interesting vintage instruments might be found there.

Bill, the guitar one

David Houck · « **Reply #4 on:** May 14, 2006, 01:56:16 PM »

Hi Joanna, welcome to the group. Beautiful guitar!

joannajetson · « **Reply #5 on:** May 14, 2006, 04:00:29 PM »

Hi, Dave, Rich, & Bill -

Thanks for the welcome. I'm a guitarist and long-time Alembic fan who's never actually owned one - I simply admire them from afar. (Now, if Alembic made a jazzbox...) The guitar is at Players Guitars in San Rafael, 415-453-8531. It stood out in part because the rest of the stock is mostly old Silvertones, Goya mixmasters & such!

Joanna

David Houck · « **Reply #6 on:** May 15, 2006, 08:17:29 AM »

Players Guitars