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gearhed289

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This is a unique guitar
« on: October 21, 2020, 07:08:51 AM »
When I saw the thumbnail, I kind of laughed and thought it was some import that somebody is trying to pass off as an Alembic. Then I went to the ad and saw that it's the real thing. Like an Alembic Super Strat! https://www.ebay.com/itm/143797966569?ul_noapp=true

edwardofhuncote

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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #1 on: October 21, 2020, 07:23:32 AM »
Fascinated, just because I'm on a guitar binge right now. Clearly a Custom something.


A single HB in the bridge position and (just guessing) a switchable Blaster circuit? Kinda' like the Bodega 'Hole-in-the-Head' bass had. No idea.  :o  But I like it!  :D

lbpesq

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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #2 on: October 21, 2020, 09:09:20 AM »
$16K might seem a little ambitious, don’tcha think?  But it does come with a “soft shell original case”!

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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #3 on: October 21, 2020, 09:30:19 AM »
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...  I don’t know much about it except that I had it for 15 years in my closet, I never played ... Liquidation sale.

the whole being more than the sum of the parts, so it seems.  good luck with that

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jalevinemd

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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #4 on: October 21, 2020, 09:52:40 AM »
Gotta be a Shop Night guitar.

mica

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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #5 on: October 21, 2020, 01:21:11 PM »
I don't recognize this guitar at all, even as a shop nighter. It's got a glue-on neck like a Gibson style, which is not something we've done. Truss rod cover not recessed. But somehow someone found a logo for it - however, I'm not convinced it's an Alembic. Maybe the seller will produce a serial number we can verify?

edwardofhuncote

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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #6 on: October 21, 2020, 03:01:48 PM »
Looks a lot like one of these- https://reverb.com/p/aria-pro-ii-cs-400-sunburst 


Some rather skillful woodsmith could have made a project and 'doctored' on it. Good work, but not cool to put a logo on there. I might be fulla' shuga' too. The neck joint Mica pointed out, and the little notch in the headstock clued me. I'd seen that before on an Aria Pro bass.


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Re: This is a unique guitar
« Reply #7 on: November 02, 2020, 08:36:58 AM »
It has the correct style knob, an Alembic p/up, and a logo; nothing else about this says "Alembic" to me at all.

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