Amazing Alembi-clone Flyin V !!!

[Quasar1]

 

https://www.sweetwater.com/used/listings/297113-used-custom-alembic-style-flying-v-electric-bass

[gearhed289]

Talk about an odd bird! I was expecting Entwistle's V. That thing is wild. Even the control cover if funky! And the gig bag. Wow...

[JimmyJ]

An oddball indeed!  The only things that looks Alembic are the through-body neck sandwich, the logo, and the custom rear panel brass plate.  Otherwise wrong pickups, knobs, bridge, tailpiece, nut, tuners...  Crazy.  Love the gig bag though!

Jimmy J

[keith_h]

I suspect someone will be getting a call to remove the logo.

[Quasar1]

I suspect someone will be getting a call to remove the logo.

Yes, very misleading,  I hope Mothership tells them to remove it and re-list

[BeenDown139]

... i suspect someone will be getting a call to remove the logo....

kinda makes ya wonder where it came from in the first place. 

It is in poor condition because laminations near the peg head have separated and must be repaired to tighten the strings to concert pitch.

Also, one of the screws in the 4 peg head gear wheels is not original. A Naugahyde soft case in perfect condition included.

i think that mismatched screw is the least of yer worries here.  i thought sweetwater was halfway reputable.  no?

kinda helps to read the fine print i guess.  $5k USD for a train wreck that ya can't even play?  next!!

good luck to all

[sonicus]

Seeing the "Alembic Logo" on this is quite disturbing to me in some regard.

[dela217]

It looks like a Moonstone.

[edwardofhuncote]

Could be a Shopnight with a logo.

[lbpesq]

Reminiscent of the "Love Giver" guitar Alembic made for the Tenacious D movie, "The Pick of Destiny".

Bill, tgo

[jazzyvee]

Made me think of this one.

[cntrabssn]

It reminds me of a Moonstone too. But after thinking about it a bit more, I wonder if Michael Dolan built it. The headstock looks similar to the one in this video:

Michael did work for Alembic for a while, so perhaps it is a shop night build.

[pauldo]

Reminiscent of the "Love Giver" guitar Alembic made for the Tenacious D movie, "The Pick of Destiny".

Bill, tgo

My first thought was the same… Pick Of Destiny.   Who says Hollywood doesn’t make good movies? 😆

[edwardofhuncote]

Michael built some wild stuff... most I think had his mark though rather than Alembic logos. [shrug] I dunno... itsa weird one. Just going by the pickups (DiMarzio?) and other hardware, I'll guess the age is late-1970's/early-1980's. Some things don't add up. The overall build (even if you don't care for the aesthetic) is pretty darn good, but the pickup routs are a bit sloppy. The tuners, and even the logo (legit or not) are mounted crooked, on a nice symmetrical headstock. It's hard to go wrong with those machines, they have a guide pin on the underside of the plate. I have these same tuners on a Hyak from '78, mounted on an oblique on purpose. It just doesn't make sense here. Maybe they just swiveled around a couple degrees. In the ad pictures the strings are slack, and the nut is slid off-center. I'd like to know more, but just for curiosity's sake.

Here's a thread with a Dolan Model X guitar from 1978, a rather brash, whimsical design-

https://club.alembic.com/index.php?topic=27373.msg278240#msg278240