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Author Message tmoney61092 Senior Member Username: tmoney61092 Post Number: 900 Registered: 9-2008 Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 11:34 am:    odd looking controls http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Alembic-instrument-73-45-six-string-prototype-guitar-1-of-a-kind-/261343655619?&_trksid=p2056016.m2518.l4276 ~Taylor pace Senior Member Username: pace Post Number: 971 Registered: 4-2004 Posted on Sunday, December 01, 2013 - 5:07 pm:    Cool... That's a PF-5 preamp w the trim pots mounted on the face of the instrument... Nothing unusual for the year... Cool guitar~ nice to see it for the sake of the archives!... edwin Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1668 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 12:11 am:    Very cool. I want to know where to get one of those pickup selector knobs! sonicus Senior Member Username: sonicus Post Number: 3130 Registered: 5-2009 Posted on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 1:51 am:    Edwin , Those knobs look like one of the swell selections from Raytheon in the 1970's. I have two on "Kit" preamp . edwin Senior Member Username: edwin Post Number: 1669 Registered: 5-2002 Posted on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 9:43 am:    Nice! lbpesq Senior Member Username: lbpesq Post Number: 5612 Registered: 7-2004 Posted on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 11:18 am:    I am a little skeptical when the seller claims to have had Alembic go throught the guitar 5 years ago, but doesn't know what the controls are for. (Pre-amp gains are "attenuators" and Q switches are "phase selectors?" ). Cool old Alembic medium scale, not a "prototype", and priced way too high, in my opinion. Bill, tgo dela217 Senior Member Username: dela217 Post Number: 1140 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 3:49 pm:    I know I posted about this in a previous thread on this guitar. That guitar is the very guitar in the L.D. Heater brochure from 1973. Although it was not born with the pickguard, you can see in the brochure that the pickup selector knob is the same one in the eBay pictures. I have the bass from the same brochure, Serial number 73 49. Michael room037 Senior Member Username: room037 Post Number: 498 Registered: 9-2003 Posted on Monday, December 02, 2013 - 7:11 pm:    Hi Michael, There is "73' 47" on the L.D. Heater brochur. I know you also owned "74' 49" birdseye maple top. dela217 Senior Member Username: dela217 Post Number: 1142 Registered: 6-2002 Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 5:51 am:    Sorry EIji, I meant to say that the bass in the brochure is 73 47. It has a walnut top and back. Number 49 is a Birdseye maple bass and is not the bass in the brochure. I've had too many basses. Michael cozmik_cowboy Senior Member Username: cozmik_cowboy Post Number: 1633 Registered: 10-2006 Posted on Tuesday, December 03, 2013 - 8:01 am:    Speaking of your many basses, Michael, any word on the hurricane restoration? Peter