My new Alembic concept coming soon...

[hendixclarke]

Go got to have this bass with white frontal trim, and Mother of Pearl Boomerangs...  
 
I am thinking -- B.B.King's Lucille white trimmed guitar...  
 

[hendixclarke]

Boomerang direction change...
 

[hendixclarke]

White or Mother of Pearl laminate rap-around on finger board trim would be wonderful...
 
 

[flaxattack]

is there really an order for this or are you a serious crack smoker?

[hendixclarke]

That must be a nice way in saying, this bass is beautiful. Right Jeff?

[hendixclarke]

I talked to Mica about clear pickups...  
 
I want them on the Toma_Hawk.
 

[georgie_boy]

Just LOVE the idea of clear pups!!!
 
Maybe even clear back plates and covers!!!
Great to see the Guts!!
 
George

[georgie_boy]

Hal
E-Mail sent to you!
 
George

[tbrannon]

I like the clear pickup idea- have you ever seen Q-tuners pickups?
 
http://www.q-tuner.com/
 
I've never pulled apart an Alembic pickup before and I know the low impedance nature of the pickups probably means the 'guts' look a bit different, but I've seen a couple basses on Talkbass with the Qtuners that looked really nice.

[oujeebass]

Hal have you got the TARP funds from Jeff yet?

[flaxattack]

maybe alembic can find you see through wood....

[jedisan]

Jeff, I think they call that Lucite...

[hendixclarke]

Great ideals George, and thanks for pictures --  those are awesome guitars. Although having a clear back plate for the Toma_Hawk was never in the cards for me, I do appreciate other ideas with plastic.  
 
The Toma_Hawk, will have Alembic's traditional  brass, back-plates.

[hendixclarke]

I had a phone discussion with Mica on clear pickups, and I was provided pictures of clear pickups on another bass.  
 
In my concept bass, the pickups are to be the exact pickups used for Series I/II basses. However, the Toma_Hawk bass will use ones completely encased in clear plastic (not color black).
 
Toby, those are awesome pickups, but to uses anything other than Alembic parts i.e; pickups, for the Toma_Hawk Bass would be out of scope for this project.  
 
Thanks for sharing for your point is also shows a company meeting the demands for clear pickups.

[tbrannon]

Hal,
 
I knew you weren't going to use anything other than the Alembic pickups.  I just thought I'd post an example that I remembered.    
 
Are the example pictures Mica provided from an Alembic bass?  If so, would you mind posting them here?  I'd love to see how they look.  Are the poles, windings visible like on the Q tuner pickups?