Author Topic: Fake California Special on Ebay (seller admits it's fake) (Read 873 times)

alembic76407 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 08, 2004, 07:21:11 AM »

The Andreas Shark Bass has Alembic Electronic and Alembic Pickups and an aluminum fret board,they are around $4000. it is a neat bass,and they don't try to pass it off as an Alembic, I got to play one last year but only through a small amp, I loved it, but not at that price.

David T (TLO)

u14steelgtr · « **Reply #16 on:** February 11, 2004, 09:53:19 PM »

Now this is a fake!! Even the Logo looks similar!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3702744138

-- Eugene

dela217 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 12, 2004, 04:07:47 PM »

Unfortunately that logo is real and the bass is not. The Fernandez basses never came with Alembic logo's on them. The early Fernandez basses came with no logo at all. The later of the bunch had Fernandez on the headstock. I think someone lied to Alembic.

mica · « **Reply #18 on:** February 12, 2004, 04:16:09 PM »

I wonder if that logo that was sold on ebay a while ago wound up there?

effclef · « **Reply #19 on:** March 15, 2004, 08:18:06 AM »

Just checked the auction, and someone got the fake California Special for $98.99.

EffClef

blazer · « **Reply #20 on:** April 05, 2004, 12:39:27 AM »

Okay, let me reveal the real identity of this fake alembic

It's a late seventies Ibanez Roadster (not Roadstar) guitar with a re-shaped headstock. The Roadster was Ibanez answer to Fender after getting suid for copying their designs (The Artist was their Answer to Gibson)

Roadsters are excellent buys for the money offering much better value than current similair priced models

adriaan · « **Reply #21 on:** April 05, 2004, 03:23:53 AM »

Not sure that the headstock was reshaped, as I've seen similar ones on copies under the Cimar brand, which I thought was just a different brand that Ibanez used from time to time.