My birthday present? Series 1

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Author Message staemius Junior Username: staemius Post Number: 45 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, August 30, 2005 - 11:48 am:    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:    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:    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:    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:    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:    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:    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:    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. ?????????????? 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:    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.