8 String Exploiter for a good price

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Author Message sjhoffma Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 313 Registered: 5-2008 Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 9:48 am:    http://www.gbase.com/gear/alembic-exploiter-8-string-bass-1987-reddish sjhoffma Advanced Member Username: sjhoffma Post Number: 314 Registered: 5-2008 Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 12:19 pm:    That was fast! SOLD lol Anyone here snag it? ojo Member Username: ojo Post Number: 75 Registered: 3-2008 Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 3:20 pm:    That was a good price, though this caught my eye: "The bass weighs 10.8 pounds" bigredbass Senior Member Username: bigredbass Post Number: 2040 Registered: 9-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 26, 2013 - 10:24 pm:    . . . . and I bet 5.4 pounds of it were the EIGHT Schaller M4 keys on that big head. It looks better this way, but 4 smaller keys for the octave-up strings might have been the smarter way to go. J o e y pace Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 948 Registered: 4-2004 Posted on Friday, September 27, 2013 - 5:40 pm:    Gotta ask what it went for..... ?!? ...... guess it doesn't matter.... anyway..... elwoodblue Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 1504 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Saturday, September 28, 2013 - 4:02 am:    I saw $2100 on that page, I was expecting to see it closer to 3, I gotta get an Alembic 8 someday. elwood elwoodblue Senior Member Username: elwoodblue Post Number: 1506 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Wednesday, October 02, 2013 - 8:20 am:    A different eight just hit ebay, Those are soooo cool: http://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-Alembic-bass-8-string-distilate-expoiter-/181230096028?pt=Guitar&hash=item2a3227ce9c smuprof Advanced Member Username: smuprof Post Number: 215 Registered: 12-2003 Posted on Sunday, October 06, 2013 - 12:03 pm:    I found one on ebay a couple of years ago just like the one currently available and snagged it for around $3k - good starting bid on the one currently available. You can see pictures of mine from the recent Texas jam. It was pretty popular with everyone. Someone needs to grab this at that price - mine makes me smile every time I play it.