here's a pretty old girl...

[BeenDown139]

https://reverb.com/item/48450053-alembic-vintage-alembic-series-1-bass-rare-very-collectible-year-model-1977-koa-beauty

not on my shopping list but someone here may be in the market for  koa series I.  located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  not sure where that is.  might have to look it up in my Funk & Wagnell's.

[fivestringdan]

Yes it is. Also looks like the finish is checking like my 77!

[adriaan]

[...] located in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.  not sure where that is.  might have to look it up in my Funk & Wagnell's.

Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan.

[BeenDown139]

Yes it is. Also looks like the finish is checking like my 77!

good heavens!  couldja give us a better close-up?   

Uzbekistan shares a border with Afghanistan

pretty sure it wasn't in the lower 48 but whatever pitiful crumbs of knowledge i picked up my geography classes have long since gone by the wayside.  so i'm gonna guess that getting it to states could be interesting.  real interesting.  and ezpensive. 

[garyhead]

Uzbekistan is where the scammer is.....This bass has been discussed here before.....

[edwardofhuncote]

Yeah, this one is familiar. I seem to recall us discussing the bass one-zee... and the sometimes seen dark stripe through the headstock. I know of two other Alembics with a slice of that wood veneer.


Is it 77- 810?


Here's a thread with the same bass. https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=26660.msg271041#msg271041

[hankster]

Yup. When I’m looking for a new high end electric instrument made in the US of A, I’m takin’ me to Tashkent. What could possibly go wrong?

[BeenDown139]

Yup. When I’m looking for a new high end electric instrument made in the US of A, I’m takin’ me to Tashkent. What could possibly go wrong?

well as long as ya don't have any CBD oil in yer makeup kit yer probably OK. probably