Author Topic: Sh#t happens!!!! (Read 532 times)

keavin · « **on:** January 24, 2006, 07:08:25 AM »

http://photobucket.com/albums/f55/keavin123/?action=view&slideshow=true

keavin · « **Reply #1 on:** January 24, 2006, 07:11:27 AM »

WARNING....NEVER LEAVE YOUR AXE PLUGGED IN SITTING ON A STAND!..this shit happend last weekend in the freakin studio but Don't worry it's fixed already.

(Message edited by keavin on January 24, 2006)

lbpesq · « **Reply #2 on:** January 24, 2006, 07:13:53 AM »

Keavin:

OMIGOD!!!!! Please tell us these are old photos and Old #12 has long since been appropriately attended to, put back in her original shape, and all is right with the world! I hope this isn't a recent disaster. If it is, you have my condolences.

Bill, tgo

P.S. I wrote this as you were posting the above. Glad to hear it's repaired aleady. I guess we all show a few more scars here and there as we get older!

(Message edited by lbpesq on January 24, 2006)

keavin · « **Reply #3 on:** January 24, 2006, 07:21:41 AM »

it was a clean break so it fit right in & i glued it clamped it, and its been drying for the past two days,,,this is the fourth time in 25yrs it has been broken, my neck is soo thin at the nut so thats its most vulnerable spot onthis bass but it's a real trooper!its ok now.

precarius · « **Reply #4 on:** January 24, 2006, 08:13:31 AM »

All these pictures of decapitated Alembics are scary! I think from now on, I will just play my bass in a plastic bubble. BubbleBass Boy.

jacko · « **Reply #5 on:** January 24, 2006, 08:30:23 AM »

Jeez Kevin. Isn't it time you treated her to a visit back to her birthplace for a proper makeover?

Graeme

rklisme · « **Reply #6 on:** January 24, 2006, 07:16:28 PM »

Wow Keavin, glad to hear Old number 12 has recovered. I have to agree with Mike all these headless Alembics are making me a little nervous.

Rory

keavin · « **Reply #7 on:** January 25, 2006, 03:35:28 AM »

Alembic basses are very VULNERABLE at the nut/headstock (most dont survive their first fall),iv'e dropped my fender a million times ,and even used it in a bar fight!..im pretty sure we all have,,,,dont leave it plugged in & make sure your stand is good and tight.

kungfusheriff · « **Reply #8 on:** January 25, 2006, 08:46:50 AM »

Damn, man, your bass has lost its head more times than Henry VIII's wives! Glad she's fixed though.
ONCE AGAIN--I firmly believe we should all forego stands and lay our instruments in their cases when we're not playing them.

bsee · « **Reply #9 on:** January 25, 2006, 09:34:41 AM »

Keavin-

Thanks for sharing to raise awareness. It seems these things happen periodically to someone out there. I still recall Mike's Spyder headstock explosion from last year as well. Glad you got it back together quickly. I will be looking at the stands I use and what is available at the local music stores to see which looks safest to me. I will also be thinking about how to anchor the stand during shows. Maybe velcro straps to carpets and tape on hard floors?

I'll add a preventative warning here. I've been fortunate to have had only two bass damage incidents (not counting the sweet-and-sour sauce incident, but that left no lasting physical damage). Both times, the bass was sitting in an unlatched case and the case was lifted to move. The worse of the two left a couple very large gouges in the fretboard of a Kramer Pioneer and resulted in a replacement neck installation. It would have been much more painful if it had happened to an Alembic.

Please take care of your instruments out there. Pay attention to your stands, cases and straps. Pay attention to your space when you're playing so you don't bang into things. Pay attention to how you pack your instrument with your heavy amps and speaker cabinets so a weight shift while driving doesn't do them in. And, hey, let's be careful out there!

(We're all old, so I suspect many will recognize that last quote...)

precarius · « **Reply #10 on:** January 25, 2006, 12:20:03 PM »

I was just wondering. Are through-neck Alembics more vulnerable at the headstock joint than set-necks like Epics?

alembic76407 · « **Reply #11 on:** January 25, 2006, 02:25:06 PM »

Keavin, that makes me sick to see #12 hurt!!!!!

thats why My Series 1 is in the case or being played!!!! no stands for my Series 1, but the Epic get some stand time, but that may change now

I hope #12 heals up good !!!!!

David T

kmh364 · « **Reply #12 on:** January 25, 2006, 02:34:13 PM »

If the set-neck has a volute and glued-on headstock wings like my Orion, then I'd venture to say that thru-necks, which tend to forego the volute in favor of more expensive laminated headstock construction and use a scarf joint for headstock attachment, are slightly more vulnerable in a fall.

David Houck · « **Reply #13 on:** January 25, 2006, 04:19:06 PM »

As mentioned in the Must Reads section, there is a lot about scarf joints vrs. volutes in this thread, including a post by Mica on the subject. In her post Mica says among other things that only a few of the volute-style pegheads have come back for repair. These tend to break along one of the outer joints, and .. it's pretty easy to repair.

(Message edited by davehouck on January 25, 2006)

lindoom · « **Reply #14 on:** January 25, 2006, 04:24:34 PM »

Yeah thats sick man but what freaks me out the most is that he said this is the forth time it has happened!!! whats up with that.I'm glad it's ok but 4 times , get a flight case and keep it in it when your not playin it thats a rare peice of history you have. I don't mean to rant it's just all these headless Alembics lately is makin me wonder if I got on the Steinberger site by mistake! LONG LIVE OLD NO.12