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savell
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Username: savell

Post Number: 6
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 8:00 am:   Edit Post

I need to know what wood this bass is? Does the serial number give any indication or do we have to just look and compare?
savell
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Username: savell

Post Number: 7
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 8:02 am:   Edit Post

My Bass
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1049
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 8:06 am:   Edit Post

If you can post the serial number in the "Owning an Alembic" section, subsection "Serial Number Requests", and wait a couple of weeks, someone at the factory will dig up the file on your bass and post the contents of the build sheet.

Other than that, if you can upload a photo perhaps we can have a guess - mind you, some woods look a lot alike.
adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 1050
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 8:08 am:   Edit Post

I was typing while you uploaded it. I think there was a discussion on the top wood of this very same Epic a couple of days ago?
lbpesq
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Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 1622
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 9:15 am:   Edit Post

Savell:

This bass does look like the one previously discussed here:

http://alembic.com/club/messages/393/31255.html?1158261661

Looking at the picture in that thread I gave the opinion it was Bocate. However, after looking at your picture, I think it might actually be Cocobolo. I'm 95% sure it's one or the other. Adrian's right about posting the serial number in the request section. Though my experience is that you will have an answer in a matter of days rather than a couple of weeks. Either way, a very pretty bass.

Bill, the guitar one
savell
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Username: savell

Post Number: 9
Registered: 6-2006
Posted on Friday, September 15, 2006 - 7:06 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Adrian. I just posted the serial number. Now it's wait and see time.

Thanks Bill for the compliment. I like this bass a lot but I haven't had the chance to play it very much since I no longer play bass in the band. I have been playing pedal steel for quite a while now. I do miss it every now and then. Sometime I think I will sell it but when somebody gets interested, I start having second thoughts. Its bought and paid for now, I guess I ought to hang on to it.

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