Phil jones custom alembic - huh?

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Author Message hgregs Junior Username: hgregs Post Number: 45 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 5:13 pm:    this lasted on ebay for less than a day before the seller pulled it. but it was interesting anyway http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270900547942 longhorncat Senior Member Username: longhorncat Post Number: 439 Registered: 8-2005 Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 5:26 pm:    I've been talking with this seller. He stopped the auction as soon as he heard it wasn't an Alembic. It will be relisted later an Alembic copy. Any chance that Phil actually made this bass? hgregs Junior Username: hgregs Post Number: 46 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 8:15 pm:    relisted here http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280814684562+ bigredbass Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1812 Registered: 9-2002 Posted on Thursday, January 26, 2012 - 10:25 pm:    The 'Phil Jones' they're talking about here is not the high-end audio/outside-the-box bass amp guy. This one is a custom builder who worked at Gibson (one of the guys in that class with Tom Murphy)when I was there in the early 90's, don't know where he's at now, nor do I know who the guy is listed as the recipient. You notice the Gibson brass truss rod cover, plus it's really funny to see the AXY's with FOUR screws in them, don't know how they're mounted. Phil builds some nice things. Gibson in those days was building a lot of very gaudy one-offs for the famous (you just haven't lived till you see a Firebid 7 in Purple Sparkle!), and lots of things were being Frankenstein'd . . . . . J o e y