Author Topic: Knobby Pegheads (Read 170 times)

afrobeat_fool · « **on:** January 11, 2012, 05:52:03 PM »

During the Holidays Bill, Harry, and I got together to celebrate with our three knobby Alembics. Four if you include both headstocks on Harry's doubleneck. So, I decided to show off our adventure and see who else has a knobby or two floating around. I am hoping Michael, DFung and Hartmut post some pic's. So, lets see em. I will get us started.

Nick.

room037 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2012, 07:19:06 PM »

Wow !
I love it !

I wish to own a 8 strings on knobby head.

Eiji

dadabass2001 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 12, 2012, 07:11:56 AM »

Here's a picture of my fretless knobby Epic being played by club member Speicky at the Chicago gathering in 2009 at Bagend:

Mike

shingor64 · « **Reply #3 on:** January 12, 2012, 08:15:12 AM »

Mike,
beautiful!

dfung60 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 12, 2012, 09:57:42 AM »

Your wish is my command! Eiji, I think this is the bass that you want. It was my first Alembic and it's just perfect.

And, to keep things balanced, here's an old MTD that I have which has an "anti-knob" headstock:

David Fung

dfung60 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 12, 2012, 10:11:44 AM »

I realized I have a picture of the back of my 8-string headstock. It has a detail that screams Alembic!. The top two tuning heads are carefully placed just the right distance apart so they share a single mounting screw!

That sure doesn't happen by accident! There's only a million subtle details on an instrument like this, so nailing this is really amazing. There's a command of the craft that's just out of this world.

David Fung

Author Topic: Knobby Pegheads (Read 170 times)

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