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fc_spoiler
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Username: fc_spoiler

Post Number: 467
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 10:23 am:   Edit Post

Says "Best sounding custom Alembic ever made"...: Click here

mica
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Post Number: 4442
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 10:39 am:   Edit Post

Um, no.
the_mule
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Post Number: 612
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 10:47 am:   Edit Post

Pickups and electronics seem to be genuine..?

Wilfred
fc_spoiler
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Post Number: 468
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 10:56 am:   Edit Post

Here's another picture:

bsee
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Post Number: 1544
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 11:01 am:   Edit Post

After-hours special?
olieoliver
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Post Number: 1248
Registered: 2-2006
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 11:08 am:   Edit Post

Maybe "after HAPPY-hour" special.

Weird body shape.
88persuader
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Post Number: 301
Registered: 5-2004
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 12:53 pm:   Edit Post

Is it neck through construction?
mica
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Post Number: 4443
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 1:49 pm:   Edit Post

The pickups look like SC-1/AXY pickups and have the expected type of mounting. I can't tell if the electronics are Alembic, can't see 'em.

The tailpiece and bridge don't look quite right to me. The logo isn't right. No comment on the body shape. Neck to body area of the neck is also not in our style. Serial number?

I've never seen this instrument before, so I sorta doubt from the claimed age it's one that was made here. My guess is that some of the parts were used from a Series I bass that may have suffered some irrepairable damage.
cozmik_cowboy
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Post Number: 130
Registered: 10-2006
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 3:11 pm:   Edit Post

Hey, Flip, can you do a crop-and-zoom on the headstock like you did the body? I can't figure out how to do it, and I'd like to see the logo if we could. Thanks.

Peter
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 601
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 4:18 pm:   Edit Post

Don't crop the headstock. I can't stand all those jiggery-pokery string ends.

:-)

Bradley
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 4444
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 5:24 pm:   Edit Post

Zooming probably won't reveal much for the peghead. It looks like a Roman numeral 10 from here.
davehouck
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Post Number: 4953
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 6:29 pm:   Edit Post

"Helaas. Deze advertentie is verwijderd."
byoung
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Username: byoung

Post Number: 602
Registered: 12-2004
Posted on Friday, April 13, 2007 - 7:02 pm:   Edit Post

Mica,

What's really important is that it would magnify all those jangly bits.

Aaaaaaaaaaugh! My eye!

Bradley
fc_spoiler
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Username: fc_spoiler

Post Number: 469
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Saturday, April 14, 2007 - 12:19 am:   Edit Post

I've emailed the seller yesterday and also asked for a serial number, no response yet...

"My guess is that some of the parts were used from a Series I bass that may have suffered some irrepairable damage."
I was thinking the same, the bridge could be genuine I guess? (hard to see) and the truss rod cover looks like an early '80s (though easy to replicate). I also thought I've seen a tailpiece like this here on the board somewhere... I don't think it's a modified "bird tail piece" The screws are too far apart.

"Helaas. Deze advertentie is verwijderd."
Unfortunately, the ad has been removed, for those who can't read Dutch ;-)
I did report this bass and send the seller a link to this thread, maybe Mica also asked the seller to remove the ad? It's unlikely the bass was sold... It's only been on that site for a few hours.

(Message edited by fc_spoiler on April 14, 2007)
fc_spoiler
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Username: fc_spoiler

Post Number: 471
Registered: 5-2006
Posted on Monday, April 16, 2007 - 10:22 am:   Edit Post

It's relisted as "one of a kind bass" Click here
I requested some pics of the electronics and hardware. It was sold to the seller as an Alembic, he never checked if it was genuine.

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