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jango
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Username: jango

Post Number: 1
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 5:20 am:   Edit Post

Hi just baught this Lovly Alembic can you give me any info on it?



(Message edited by davehouck on November 20, 2005)
davehouck
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Username: davehouck

Post Number: 2612
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 5:56 am:   Edit Post

Hi Gavin; welcome to the group and congrats!
grateful
Intermediate Member
Username: grateful

Post Number: 108
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 6:19 am:   Edit Post

Hi Gavin,

Lovely bass, congratulations. I think you must have mistyped the serial number: one too many digits surely.

Mark, ago
speicky
Junior
Username: speicky

Post Number: 34
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 6:39 am:   Edit Post

Hello, Gavin,

wow, nice one really. Is this the Spoiler offered in Wieze/Belgium ? It did not sell via eBay.

Anyway, I think, the serial # should read 88 S 5033 USA, the stamped figures in the fretboard are barely readable sometimes. Lood luck !

Christian (the faker)
speicky
Junior
Username: speicky

Post Number: 35
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 2:06 pm:   Edit Post

...or is the number stamped in the TRC ? I cannot tell from the pics...
jango
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Username: jango

Post Number: 2
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Sunday, November 20, 2005 - 3:25 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks not sure about the serial as I m hopping to get the bass next week Im waiting for some one in the know to help me out . Speicky you are right it did not sell but I contacted the seller after to see if a deal could be struck!! well the rest is history. hopfuly! I think you could also be right about the no. will have to see.
cheers lookin forward to some helpful hints.
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 2824
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Monday, November 21, 2005 - 4:58 pm:   Edit Post

From 1988, the only place the number would be is stamped directly into the Ebony of the fingerboard, so when you get the bass, please write it in the electronics cavity or under one of the pickups so it isn't lost in the future.

Here's what's in the file for 88S5033:

top: Quilted Maple
body: Mahogany
neck: Maple, 32" medium scale
fingerboard: Ebony with pearloid inalys
pickups: AXY
controls: volume, filter, 2-position Q switch, 4-position rotary pickup selector switch
output: mono
originally built for: Musik Tomme
birthday: not recorded, but likely late August, 1988

We haven't heard from this bass since it was built.

(Message edited by mica on November 21, 2005)
jango
New
Username: jango

Post Number: 3
Registered: 11-2005
Posted on Tuesday, November 22, 2005 - 8:02 am:   Edit Post

Hi Mica
Many thanks for the info great site and Im glad to have come to the Alembic side of life. Looking forward to playing the bass and will place the serial no in the cavity as requested not that I will be so stupid to let this bass go anywhere but my side!!!.
Cheers from Scotland!! and all the best

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