Kevin's Custom with Series electronics

[kevin_k]

[kevin_k]

This guy really likes his job.
 
For future refernce here is the mock up.  This is the shorter horn version made back in October 2003.
 
FYI: 3/4 Omega Custom Balance Point 34 scale        

[bracheen]

Boy, I'd love to be left alone in that room for a couple of days!

[David Houck]

I think you would find that a couple of days wasn't enough .

[mikedm]

I'm in a sad, sad state when even the mock up looks tempting....ah, geez, Paul are through with that stocking yet?

[bracheen]

It seems that this Alembicitis is not only chronic but progressive and irrepairable.

[bigbadbill]

Hmmmmm, why is it I want every new Alembic I see? The more I look at that shape, the more I like it, and I liked it an awful lot to begin with! Either I need a lottery win or there's going to be another in the queue for that stocking.....

[bassman10096]

Me too.  Judging from everyone's words it sounds like Alembic might potentially have a new body model.  I love the appearance and it seems like the smaller, lighter body with the longer horn may offer a neat solution to some problems (balance, reach to lower frets) that I (and maybe others?) have with the traditional point and omega styles.  Best of all, in my view, it looks like a really sexy new take on the look and style of a traditional Alembic!
 
This style has also grown on me a great deal with a few days of looking at it.  I'm definitely ordering my bass in this body design.
 
Bill

[malthumb]

I'm really liking this body, too.  I've always been a fan of the traditional Alembic Standard Point and Standard Omega, as well as the Heart & Stinger variants.  I like the Rogue and Europa, but would opt for one of the Standards any time I had a choice.  I've also always preferred the Crown peghead to any of the others.
 
Having seen this design, I wouldn't be surprised if my next custom was a 3/4 Heart Omega with the longer horn and a cone headstock.  Don't know when that might happen, but it might happen.

[David Houck]

As long as were voting , I too find this body style very attractive.

[eastcoastepic]

Agreed, very nice....not too big, not too small, seems to have great balance, and visually quite different from anything else out there. I can see myself in a nice fretless version in the near future...........
Sam, is there a cure to the chronic, progressive, and irrepairable symptoms?  Please respond ASAP, as I feel the itch coming on again.............

[bracheen]

Sorry Chris, no cure.  All you can do to relieve the symptoms is Alembic aquisition therapy.
 
Sam

[basstard]

*gasp*
 
It's... STUNNING!
 
When I saw the mockup I drooled all over the keybord of my computer (and on my shirt, too). I imagined it as my dream bass, with flame maple body wings and cocobolo top, maple/purpleheart neck, custom elecs (vol, pan, low-pass filter w/q-switch + bass & treble controls) and chrome hardware... And old-style (pre '97, I guess?) cone headstock (the bigger one, like on early Rogues)... Oh... My... God...
 
I WANT IT NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
Gotta check lotto numbers (my bank account isn't ready to fulfill this dream yet)...

[palembic]

Yep ...the longer upper horn version is absolutely fantastic. I'm a long time Standard body fan and those bodies are huge, sometimes too huge.
I also like the Rogue but that body is IMHO too small.
I think what we have here, is what our friend the late Robert Palmer would sing about: the best of both worlds.
However.... I think there is MORE to it than just a 3/4 body and a longer upper horn.
It could be my eyes but is that body not a little bit slanted? It seems that were the body curves reach their deepest point into the body it is not on the same place compared to each other (gosh ...this is really not easy to write in english). See??  
 
Paul the bad one
 
 
PS: anyway ...the more I see it ...the more I like the style. A template to keep!!!!

[valvil]

Yes Paul TBO,  the body curves are not symmetrical like on a regular standard,.. as Kevin pointed out this is a 3/4 size version of the Balance Point Standard shape (with omega), not the traditional standard shape...make sure that stocking of yours is pulled up and not over your eyes when you read...
 
Valentino
 
P.S. I guess I should admit that the guy above who really loves his job, as Kevin very accurately put it, and sporting the sardonic/moronic smile is yours truly...although now I look different...