Here's my headstocks: Graphite Series 1, seen here recently in another thread:
Series Exploiter with a nice cone:
Series 8-String knobby:
Series II 5-string:
My bass is the one on the the Series II product page. This isn't the best headstock photo, but the back is pretty interesting:
This instrument is 35" scale, but I think that somebody may have missed that early on on the work order. The scarf joint is really extended on this bass, way past the headstock and down into the fingerboard area which you can see on the back. When I first received this bass, the thinnest point of the neck was actually underneath the first fret area, sort of a negative volute that screamed "break neck here". We did a neck profile rework on this instrument after the first completion which included some additional veneer layers on the back of the headstock so the headstock didn't seem quite so precarious. There was never any negative effect on the sustain or tone before or after, but it did look pretty scary from the side. Nobody but Alembic could have done a fix like this. I requested that Alembic do this bass with ebony neck laminates; this bass is the origin of today's ebony neck lam option. David Fung
