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Zut8083

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THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« on: June 05, 2018, 06:58:07 PM »
"Very Good (Used)", my hindquarters!  "Finish:Red"?!  Man, no!  And the routing was done by someone who hates music, like Tipper Gore and the PMRC.  Why would you make a Series 1 guitar into a sorta-Les Paul?  Why?

Not good.  I can't get a serial number, but if someone finds it, take it home.

https://reverb.com/item/2728176-alembic-big-red-1-guitar-pre-owned

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2018, 09:15:50 PM »
Ouch.
 I can tell you that the pickups look like 81-82 G&L F-100 pickups.
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« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2018, 10:10:43 PM »
Indeed, they do.  What gets my hackles up is that someone took a really attractive musical instrument that was designed to function a certain way, and without knowing much better, they awkwardly chopped it to make it into something that is potentially less functional, and used crude routing skill and did not cap the unused ports creatively.  Wasn't there a Series 1 bass that was recently-ish up for sale that was routed for dual P's?  Same deal; that was not cool, either. 

To add insult to injury, they may have tesseracted its condition to "very good" to try to dupe people who cannot use Google image search and find out what a series 1 guitar looks like.  That's not super cool.  I don't even know how you would easily fix it so it looked really nice again, single coils/hum canceller or not; I think it would need a real heck of an overhaul or someone willing and able to take this opportunity to take it further and make it something totally unique (new pickups to approximately fit the routing and new electronics?).  I dunno, it's depressing to see this, especially with the great purpleheart laminates and the nicely aged maple(?) core inherent to the guitar.  Yikes.

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2018, 10:57:02 PM »
The sad thing is - it's relative close to the Mothership! I almost went in there today, I wonder if it was out on the floor. I think this one may have been for sale here a couple of years ago, but I couldn't find it with a quick google search.

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #4 on: June 05, 2018, 11:31:12 PM »
Yeah, the proximity to Alembic is a pretty unfortunate thing.  I hope someone in the Bay Area, or wherever it is, will recognize it for what it is, pick it up, and get it fixed up at the Mothership.

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« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2018, 05:18:52 AM »
ditto...

Ouch.

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #6 on: June 06, 2018, 06:25:01 AM »
This is the guitar
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hk8-DNeLn68
The comments are worth a read.

The sound of Alembic is medicine for the soul!
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_ktwins.html

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #7 on: June 06, 2018, 07:45:10 AM »
Not quite as bad as I was expecting, but WOW, some people should not be allowed to operate a router!

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #8 on: June 06, 2018, 08:33:53 AM »
Jazzy,

I don't know how you can consistently find all of these things online that are super-relevant to so many threads.  It's really impressive!

I just hope the guitar can get the help it needs so it can again make use of its design and construction, or that it is loved and used as well as possible in its new form.

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #9 on: June 06, 2018, 08:49:52 AM »
"Very Good (Used)", my hindquarters!  "Finish:Red"?!  Man, no!  And the routing was done by someone who hates music, like Tipper Gore and the PMRC.  Why would you make a Series 1 guitar into a sorta-Les Paul?  Why?

Not good.  I can't get a serial number, but if someone finds it, take it home.

https://reverb.com/item/2728176-alembic-big-red-1-guitar-pre-owned

Zut,
how did you come across this listing? Google search? It looks like it is over 2 years old.


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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #10 on: June 06, 2018, 11:53:30 AM »
Jon-

Based on my history, I was trying to pin down the red Alembic's model on eBay to add the infor to my other post from last night, using "canceled alembic guitars" as a Google search term.  While it was not the Queen's English, I was trying different ways/phrasings to look for previously built Alembic guitars to identify that model. 

My previous experience has shown that sometimes odd synonyms can give you additional results on Google that help you get what you want or find something interesting, although it worked better in the past than it does now.  I just used "canceled" vs. "discontinued".  Then an image search brought up this incredulous picture in the results, linking to the ended Reverb listing from 2015.

Check it out-

-Zut

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #11 on: June 06, 2018, 01:33:56 PM »
Jazzy has a gift. He, like many of us here, is a junkie for the for sale boards. We watch this stuff with baited breath daily waiting for something special to appear. I spotted a Series I shorty in Australia one time, posted it here, and Jazzy bought it.  8)


In the case of this poor old guitar, it's been discussed a few times here. I hope someone finally rescued it.

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #12 on: June 06, 2018, 02:04:19 PM »
To keep myself from getting too worked up about this vandalism, I just remind myself that Jerry had the guts ripped out of 72-25 & replaced with D(irt)'Marzios on the way to it becoming Wolf.

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Re: THAT is a travesty. That's not funny!
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2018, 02:42:33 PM »
Yeah, I don't have the strength for discussing Wolf's transmogrification at this moment.  All I hear in my ears is a zealous teen/20-something playing a montage of Crazy Train/Panama/Smoke on the Water on that guitar. 

Again, I do hope that one day the Forum lights up with news of someone buying this guitar and taking it back home.

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« Reply #14 on: June 06, 2018, 02:48:53 PM »
Edward is correct im guilty as charged. Alembic geek all the way through. For my sins i gave a good visual memory and have been a highly active member of this forum since about 2002 so have read a great many of the posts since that time. As a result i get quite a few prospective alembic buyers asking my advice or help in finding a particular alembic model. But its kind of what we all here like to do. We all feel it if someone gets ripped of or is heading that way.

Back to that guitar. I saw that a few years back and was horrified but this one im posting belo also has had the alembics ripped out but to me it sounds lovely.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_YuuF93YJj8
The sound of Alembic is medicine for the soul!
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_ktwins.html