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staemius
Junior
Username: staemius

Post Number: 45
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 11:48 am:   Edit Post

Dang - someone buy this thing for me, it's my birthday!

http://cgi.ebay.com/1975-Alembic-Series-I-guitar-w-case-power-supply_W0QQitemZ7347115377QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 621
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 12:46 pm:   Edit Post

I'm looking at it too. I got the serial number from the seller and posted an info request in the basses & guitars section.

Bill, tgo
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 225
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 8:30 pm:   Edit Post

I checked this earlier and saw no bids. I just went back to place one and, low and behold, saw a very familiar "lbesq" as the sole bidder. Bill, I grant you squatter's rights and hope you win. It's a real beauty!

Regards,

Jonathan
pace
Intermediate Member
Username: pace

Post Number: 169
Registered: 4-2004
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 9:50 am:   Edit Post

Was this the same one listed on eBAY a few months ago? I think the last owner was in Santa Cruz?!? Remember?!?

Show no mercy Jon! Bill snagged a SF-2 right out from under me a while back... lol..... I have 5 days to knit some stockings and plot my revenge! :-)

Happy b-day James!!! ~ mine was on Sunday
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 226
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 12:13 pm:   Edit Post

Mike,

I'm almost certain this is the same one. The original seller auctioned 2 within a short time frame I believe (a '75 and a '76), several months ago. The hardware was a little more polished on the first and the zebrawood a little more heavily flamed. I got outbid on that one.

This one's all Bill's. The last thing this site needs is a doctor and a lawyer slugging it out!

Regards,

Jonathan
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 625
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:06 am:   Edit Post

Jonathan:

I appreciate the thought, but go ahead and bid away. This one's getting a little rich for my blood, considering that 1. - it has not had an electronics upgrade, so add $1500 to the selling price, and 2. there's something about this particular zebrawood top that just doesn't appeal to me as much as most of the early brownies.

Bill, tgo
jalevinemd
Advanced Member
Username: jalevinemd

Post Number: 227
Registered: 12-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 6:14 am:   Edit Post

Let's feed it to the birds!
76ac070
Member
Username: 76ac070

Post Number: 90
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 10:06 am:   Edit Post

Can someone tell me what is so odd-looking about the way the "E" string comes over the nut and meets with the tuning peg? It appears too close to the "A" string as it meetes the peg.
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I just might bid on this one myself - even though my wife would crucify me for doing so after JUST having purchased a mildly customized '64 Jazz Bass and '04 Alembic Essence w/LEDs and Q (in Coco Bolo, no less!).

8>0
kmh364
Senior Member
Username: kmh364

Post Number: 1030
Registered: 9-2003
Posted on Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 11:14 am:   Edit Post

It appears that the way the tuners were installed on the peg head (i.e., in an hourglass shape) is resulting in the string/peg interference you're citing. If they were vertically aligned (i.e., each of the three per side), this wouldn't have occurred.

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