What Is Going On Here?

Started by garyhead, May 03, 2026, 12:37:24 PM

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garyhead

May 03, 2026, 12:37:24 PM
Down at the Hollywood, CA Guitar Center is an Orion 5-string with the most unusual finish.  Anyone care to guess what  / how it was done?  No serial # in the cavity (kudos to GC for removing the cover) and the truss rod cover is finished in black so almost impossible to read it.  Never seen it here before.

https://www.guitarcenter.com/Used/ALEMBIC/Used-ALEMBIC-Orion-5-Natural-Electric-Bass-Guitar-121886028.gc?algoliaQueryID=79f936ca470b05ac9acb4deb3cfa116a&algoliaIndexName=guitarcenter
781000 - GOLIATH Series I 4+8 Doubleneck (John Judge)
801662 - LEVIATHAN Series I 4+6 Doubleneck (bass + guitar)
94K8781  Essence 6
01OW12582  Orion 6 fretless (Rogue Electronics)
04SY13333  Spyder 4 V headstock (#25)
02SY12927  Spyder 8 (#02)
96CB9610  THE ORPHAN Classico Deluxe 6 (the only one)
F-1X, F-2B, SF-2, M1, M2 ELF

edwardofhuncote

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May 03, 2026, 12:53:42 PM
I believe that is this bass. Or possibly a twin?

https://reverb.com/item/60070111-alembic-orion-5-string-short-scale-lacewood-with-blackened-brass-hardware

If so, it's an overexposed picture of a lacewood top, and that bass is an unusual short-scale Orion. Look close and call it.

*interestingly still in Hollyweird.

garyhead

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May 03, 2026, 01:23:10 PM
Quote from: edwardofhuncote on May 03, 2026, 12:53:42 PMI believe that is this bass. Or possibly a twin?

https://reverb.com/item/60070111-alembic-orion-5-string-short-scale-lacewood-with-blackened-brass-hardware

If so, it's an overexposed picture of a lacewood top, and that bass is an unusual short-scale Orion. Look close and call it.

*interestingly still in Hollyweird.
Very Interesting!  The original reverb also has the over-exposure of the bass in the case.  The photos in the stand look like a different bass!  I wonder if that is indeed how the finish reacts to light.
781000 - GOLIATH Series I 4+8 Doubleneck (John Judge)
801662 - LEVIATHAN Series I 4+6 Doubleneck (bass + guitar)
94K8781  Essence 6
01OW12582  Orion 6 fretless (Rogue Electronics)
04SY13333  Spyder 4 V headstock (#25)
02SY12927  Spyder 8 (#02)
96CB9610  THE ORPHAN Classico Deluxe 6 (the only one)
F-1X, F-2B, SF-2, M1, M2 ELF

David Houck

#4
May 04, 2026, 10:13:44 AM
An overexposed finish often results in a distorted tone.

sonofa_lembic

#5
May 04, 2026, 02:12:06 PM
Nice looking lacewood. 
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