| Author | Message | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 2 Registered: 3-2007 |
I've got a 1978 Alembic guitar up at Rick Turner's shop where it'a been for, oh, 17 years, I think that's right. He took it with him when he moved there and has had it ever since, I just remembered it, and I'm going to sell it. It's a small bodied short-scale. Pictures soon to follow. | ||
| tmoney61092
Senior Member Username: tmoney61092 Post Number: 884 Registered: 9-2008 |
you just remembered it??? you can give it to me since you'd forgot about it anyway! :p ~Taylor | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 3 Registered: 3-2007 |
Well, you know... I had plans for RT to do a steel fingerboard on it, but we never got around to it, and now feel like I have too many things and they're weighing me down and... | ||
| sjhoffma
Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 310 Registered: 5-2008 |
What are you thinking of asking? I love my 76 Standard point, long scale guitar, but it can be a bit... "big" at times if you know what I mean! Posts pics whenever you can! | ||
| sjhoffma
Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 311 Registered: 5-2008 |
What are you thinking of asking? I love my 76 Standard point, long scale guitar, but it can be a bit... "big" at times if you know what I mean! Posts pics whenever you can! | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 4 Registered: 3-2007 |
I'm hoping to get a sense of its value from around here. And yes, as soon as I have them from RT they'll go up. | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1622 Registered: 5-2002 |
Speaking of giveaways, wasn't there one in your past? Hm. :-) Great to see you here! | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 5 Registered: 3-2007 |
:-) | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 6 Registered: 3-2007 |
Just got phone pics of the guitar from RT. Well, it looks a lot better than I remember it, no checking. OTOH, its had a Kahler installed. | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 7 Registered: 3-2007 |
So I find myself wondering what to ask for it: on the one hand, new ones are $18,500 and this one is in unusually good shape and is already broken in - in my experience, that takes about 25 years (not kidding - my bass got amazing at 25 years and at 35 years is astounding). On the other hand, with a new one, you can presumably get what you want for $18,500, and then there's that Kahler. What do you think? | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 8 Registered: 3-2007 |
  (Message edited by davehouck on September 12, 2013) | ||
| lbpesq
Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5528 Registered: 7-2004 |
Used Series guitars usually go for $2500-$3500. "Originality" isn't critical with older Alembics like it is in the collector guitar market, so I don't think the Kahler will adversely affect price. However some, like me, would just pass because of the Kahler. But others might find it a plus. Good luck with the sale. Bill, the guitar one | ||
| keith_h
Senior Member Username: keith_h Post Number: 1901 Registered: 2-2005 |
I see the cable but not the blue box. If you don't have the blue box this will affect the price as the new owner would need to get one. From Alembic the retail price is $595 from the last post I saw. The current street price through a dealer might be different but I don't expect it to be by much. Keith | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 9 Registered: 3-2007 |
(Message edited by mgod on September 12, 2013) | ||
| mgod
New Username: mgod Post Number: 10 Registered: 3-2007 |
It's all there; cable, blue box, case. | ||
| sjhoffma
Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 312 Registered: 5-2008 |
Beautiful! If it didn't have the trem on there I would be jumping to buy this one off you! I still would probably bite at the right price. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 11 Registered: 3-2007 |
Well let's see - to get rid of the trem you'd have to fill the wood and then put on a bridge, sustain block and tailpiece. | ||
| pace
Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 947 Registered: 4-2004 |
Wow. I wonder how pinch harmonics and dive-bombs sound thru SI pickups..... if its too shrill I guess you could just rip them out and put some Duncan Screamin' Demons or EMG-85's in there.... Joking aside, thats a wonderful Alembic, Dan!... I have the same Kahler on one of my Guilds... do you recall what it's mounted on?!? It looks like it's atop a plate of some kind.... Best thing about "broken in" Alembics is that they're almost always cheaper than the $18.5K ones!!!!!  | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 12 Registered: 3-2007 |
Its on the original wood. I think I was planning on pulling it out when I did a metal fingerboard. | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1629 Registered: 5-2002 |
Metal fingerboard? You mean like this? <img src="http://www.unfretted.com/images/lp_roos_mistral_small.jpg"> (Message edited by edwin on September 22, 2013) (Message edited by edwin on September 22, 2013) | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1630 Registered: 5-2002 |
OK, I can't get the image link to work, but you can follow it to see what I'm talking about. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 13 Registered: 3-2007 |
Well... I think so. Maybe. | ||
| cozmik_cowboy
Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1580 Registered: 10-2006 |
When I read that, I pictured something like McVie's stainless steel board that Susan calls "constantly fretted"; 4th post down on this thread. Peter | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 14 Registered: 3-2007 |
That's exactly what it is; McVie had one, I had the other. But mine "fell apart", in 1981. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 15 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| sjhoffma
Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 324 Registered: 5-2008 |
Hey Dan, ever come up with an asking price? I played a very nice (but incredibly overpriced) small body series I guitar at Rudy's in NYC last month, and it made me really want one! Whole different world from my "standard point" body in terms of size, balance, and weight. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 16 Registered: 3-2007 |
How much was it? | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 17 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 18 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 19 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 20 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 21 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 22 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 23 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 24 Registered: 3-2007 |
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| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 25 Registered: 3-2007 |
Man, I totally forgot what a joy this is to play. Really solid. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 26 Registered: 3-2007 |
So, I'm gonna put it on ebay for about $4995 (not $5000!), and we'll see if it goes. | ||
| paexplorer
Junior Username: paexplorer Post Number: 48 Registered: 8-2013 |
Good Luck with it. It's a neat guitar. Hope you get what you're asking. | ||
| pauldo
Senior Member Username: pauldo Post Number: 1109 Registered: 6-2006 |
Pardon my ingnorance, being just a bass player I am not familiar with all of the doo-dads that guitarist have. I see a strap button on the upper horn . . . but what is that other thing on the neck near the upper horn (seen in the moon and star pic)? | ||
| edwin
Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1699 Registered: 5-2002 |
It looks like on of those strap buttons with wings on them to keep the strap on. Probably a strategy to alleviate neck dive. | ||
| charles_holmes
Advanced Member Username: charles_holmes Post Number: 299 Registered: 3-2009 |
If that "thing with the wings" is for neck dive then it has to be extremely hard to play in the upper register. It look like it's placed right at the 12th fret. I love playing around the 12th fret and up...Ouch! ( ouch only If that "thing" literally sticks out!) | ||
| charles_holmes
Advanced Member Username: charles_holmes Post Number: 300 Registered: 3-2009 |
If that "thing with the wings" is for neck dive then it has to be extremely hard to play in the upper register. It look like it's placed right at the 12th fret. I love playing around the 12th fret and up...Ouch! ( ouch only If that "thing" literally sticks out!) | ||
| charles_holmes
Advanced Member Username: charles_holmes Post Number: 301 Registered: 3-2009 |
sorry bout the double post | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 27 Registered: 3-2007 |
An interesting point, but in practice it doesn't get in the way. It seems to have been placed strategically so that your hand is starting to turn, to go at an angle, by the time you get there. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 28 Registered: 3-2007 |
By the way, its at the 19th fret, not the 12th. | ||
| jazzyvee
Senior Member Username: jazzyvee Post Number: 3831 Registered: 6-2002 |
I'm getting a taste for the look of these older small bodied alembics that have aged gracefully. Jazzyvee | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 29 Registered: 3-2007 |
This one is mint. Other than the Kahler String Deadener. | ||
| mgod
Junior Username: mgod Post Number: 31 Registered: 3-2007 |
Well, I sold it - and the guy just disappeared when the money was due. So I'm offering it for $4k. |
