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Author Message tmoney61092 Senior Member Username: tmoney61092 Post Number: 796 Registered: 9-2008 Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 9:54 am:    this is a beautiful bass http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fernandes-FAB-180-bass-guitar-Alembic-series-1-clone-copy-/280899456283?pt=Guitar&hash=item4166e98d1b#ht_642wt_932 ~Taylor sjhoffma Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 241 Registered: 5-2008 Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 11:16 am:    Love the fact that he upgraded the pickups. Still no Series I, but for under 2 grand... why not? hah darkstar01 Senior Member Username: darkstar01 Post Number: 420 Registered: 6-2005 Posted on Tuesday, June 12, 2012 - 4:29 pm:    if this wasn't on the opposite side of the country from me, I'd be all over it. pretty awesome. yogalembic Member Username: yogalembic Post Number: 70 Registered: 5-2012 Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 8:15 am:    @ darkstar....out of curiosity---what does being on the other side of the country have to do with the purchase? yogalembic Member Username: yogalembic Post Number: 71 Registered: 5-2012 Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 8:24 am:    This thing is amazing! I'm a newbie in regard to ownership of all things Alembic and, if I wasn't interested in (eventually) owning a Series I, I'd consider this thing. bsee Senior Member Username: bsee Post Number: 2628 Registered: 3-2004 Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 12:20 pm:    Odd pickup upgrade. If the internals of the bass mimic a Series I, then it's set up with the dummy. Alembic wouldn't use an AXY in that config, so I wonder how it all fits together. It obviously works since he was happy and Alembic likely knew the application when they sold him the pickups. Would this just be a little less open in tone than using proper Series pickups? tbrannon Senior Member Username: tbrannon Post Number: 1498 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 12:28 pm:    I can't make out much from the picture of the control cavity. So, AXY pickups with the original Kawai electronics? The listing didn't make that clear (at least to me). Looks like a pretty cleanly built homebrew DS5!! (Message edited by tbrannon on June 13, 2012) bigredbass Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 1878 Registered: 9-2002 Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 12:41 pm:    It's just not right to look in the cavity and see foil . . . . J o e y mica Moderator Username: mica Post Number: 7771 Registered: 6-2000 Posted on Wednesday, June 13, 2012 - 3:35 pm:    You can use AXY with Series electronics, you have to turn the hum balance controls off. enzo Advanced Member Username: enzo Post Number: 316 Registered: 4-2009 Posted on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 - 9:03 am:    Anybody bought this?