TommyGun40:
THANKS for posting the pictures of this S1. The photos really got to me.
This is to me the classic ALEMBIC: The point body, the Crown headstock, the oval inlays, the Series electronics, and my own ideal for the woods with the honey-hued maple over mahogany, the purpleheart stripes, Schallers . . . THIS is the guitar that haunted me from the first time I ever saw one, the first time I ever heard one, appearing in my mind almost as if it had been transported here from some parallel universe. I could never look at Fenders or anything else mass-produced the same again, and everything that came after it from the other independent builders were incomplete or derivative in ways that showed they just didn't get it . . . this bass was THE TRUTH made whole.
This is a landmark instrument, the same as a Lloyd Loar mandolin, a Black Beauty Les Paul, a Bosendorfer grand, a Stradivarius, a Selmer Paris horn ....
the product of an engineer and an artist, and their families, that rewrote history. And now in the VERY good hands of their next generation.
My deepest congratulations to you. If you are like most of us in this forum, after a while you will realise that the S1 owns you, NOT the other way around !
J o e y
