Help me pick out some builds for our new showroom!

[David Houck]

We need to make a few instruments for our new showroom, I'd love to hear some feedback on what I'm thinking about ...

Hmmm; new shop, new showroom, new showroom instruments.  Just more enticements for a future cross-country road trip.

[chrisbass]

How about a Replica(minus the aluminum fingerboard) of John Mcvie”s Fretless Series one for the new showroom?

[garyhead]

50th Anniversary Edition with Gold Inlays / Gold Hardware. 

Gold inlay Yin-Yang of Ron & Susan W. profile ?

Resin-filled dyed finish. 

Fretted - Warm Color spectrum.
Matching Fretless  - Cool Color Spectrum. 

There was a 25th Anniversary Edition.....Why not a 50th?

[edwin]

Phil replica should probably be medium sale as some people might be turned off by the lack of tension on a short scale B (although it sounds great to me!).

[KR]

A spot on replica of McVie's first Alembic.

[edwardofhuncote]

Interesting, the interest in John's Alembics here... 

A couple Club Members here, including myself, have had Customs built with features from his basses without necessarily being replicas. Jimy had a short-scale Series II built somewhat like #73-27, and a good bit of the DNA in my own Custom C14588 came from McVie's "continuously fretted" Custom Series I bass rather famously used to record "The Chain' solo. FWIW, that actual bass was hanging in the showroom at Wiljan Ct. for a while, perhaps home for some TLC at the Mothership.

Not sure if that's the best idea for the Alembic showroom, but I definitely applaud the idea for a John McVie Signature Bass. I doubt you'll ever get him to sign onto the idea though... that guy won't take a compliment if you tie him up and read it though a bullhorn. 

[ducatidoc]

We need to make a few instruments for our new showroom, I'd love to hear some feedback on what I'm thinking about ...

Hmmm; new shop, new showroom, new showroom instruments.  Just more enticements for a future cross-country road trip.

If they would make that Brown Bass w Series electronics, I’ll cheerfully volunteer to join you. I’m very close to I-80.

[gearhed289]

How about a good old fashioned Distillate Exploiter? Which today would be a Europa Exploiter I guess.  Solid koa wings, 32'' scale.

[pauldo]

How about a good old fashioned Distillate Exploiter? Which today would be a Europa Exploiter I guess.  Solid koa wings, 32'' scale.

Please no... I had a zebrawood one and sold it many years ago.  It still hurts.   :'(


Paul (if memory serves me the scale was 34” ?)

[s_wood]

Definitely a Series or MK Sig with the Balanced K body, and (bias alert!) and Series bass with a Europa body.  My thinking is that the standard Series body is iconic - which means it's well-known, right?  I often meet bass players who are surprised that my Series Europa or Balance K basses are, in fact, Series basses because (in their words) the shape is wrong!  I think you need to show off the more modern (and ergonomically friendly) body style options.

[hammer]

How about something with personal meaning to just about everyone in the Alembic family...an updated version of Paul's Series II bass Bonnie.

[rv_bass]

How about creating something totally new for the 50th year celebration

[sonicus]

A reasonable facsimile of 72-001 might seem fun , Sliding pickups and all and an internal superfilter perhaps  as well ?

[KR]

That's what I'm thinking, sonicus.

[cozmik_cowboy]

For the Skylark, there was one posted here on the club (or maybe on the main site) a while back in a finish that I think was maybe called Wineburst; you couldn't go wrong with that - it was one of the most spectacularly yummy instruments I've seen.

The copper and/or rose gold sound wonderful.

A Phil replica?  Well, there's only one choice there;  Mission Control!

Peter