Author Topic: (x) Serial Request # 88S5033usa (Read 379 times)

jango · « **on:** November 20, 2005, 05:20:05 AM »

Hi just baught this Lovly Alembic can you give me any info on it?

(Message edited by davehouck on November 20, 2005)

David Houck · « **Reply #1 on:** November 20, 2005, 05:56:02 AM »

Hi Gavin; welcome to the group and congrats!

grateful · « **Reply #2 on:** November 20, 2005, 06:19:47 AM »

Hi Gavin,

Lovely bass, congratulations. I think you must have mistyped the serial number: one too many digits surely.

Mark, ago

speicky · « **Reply #3 on:** November 20, 2005, 06:39:56 AM »

Hello, Gavin,

wow, nice one really. Is this the Spoiler offered in Wieze/Belgium ? It did not sell via eBay.

Anyway, I think, the serial # should read 88 S 5033 USA, the stamped figures in the fretboard are barely readable sometimes. Lood luck !

Christian (the faker)

speicky · « **Reply #4 on:** November 20, 2005, 02:06:12 PM »

...or is the number stamped in the TRC ? I cannot tell from the pics...

jango · « **Reply #5 on:** November 20, 2005, 03:25:08 PM »

Thanks not sure about the serial as I m hopping to get the bass next week Im waiting for some one in the know to help me out . Speicky you are right it did not sell but I contacted the seller after to see if a deal could be struck!! well the rest is history. hopfuly! I think you could also be right about the no. will have to see.
cheers lookin forward to some helpful hints.

mica · « **Reply #6 on:** November 21, 2005, 04:58:02 PM »

From 1988, the only place the number would be is stamped directly into the Ebony of the fingerboard, so when you get the bass, please write it in the electronics cavity or under one of the pickups so it isn't lost in the future.

Here's what's in the file for 88S5033:

top: Quilted Maple
body: Mahogany
neck: Maple, 32 medium scale
fingerboard: Ebony with pearloid inalys
pickups: AXY
controls: volume, filter, 2-position Q switch, 4-position rotary pickup selector switch
output: mono
originally built for: Musik Tomme
birthday: not recorded, but likely late August, 1988

We haven't heard from this bass since it was built.

(Message edited by mica on November 21, 2005)

jango · « **Reply #7 on:** November 22, 2005, 08:02:32 AM »

Hi Mica
Many thanks for the info great site and Im glad to have come to the Alembic side of life. Looking forward to playing the bass and will place the serial no in the cavity as requested not that I will be so stupid to let this bass go anywhere but my side!!!.
Cheers from Scotland!! and all the best