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clarkybass
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Username: clarkybass

Post Number: 7
Registered: 4-2010
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 12:07 pm:   Edit Post

This will arrive Thursday or Friday. Very excited. My first Alembic. Sorry won't have serial no. until then.

leaves space for Art to post re-sized pics :-)
artswork99
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Username: artswork99

Post Number: 1080
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 12:17 pm:   Edit Post

Good luck with its timely arrival! Enjoy Mark!
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adriaan
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Username: adriaan

Post Number: 2460
Registered: 6-2002
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 1:01 pm:   Edit Post

Hey, that's another 3/4 size Spoiler. Interesting to see the grain through the flame figuring - nice!
lbpesq
Senior Member
Username: lbpesq

Post Number: 4376
Registered: 7-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 1:01 pm:   Edit Post

Mark:

Really nice top! Welcome to the club and play it in good health.

Bill, the guitar one
hydrargyrum
Senior Member
Username: hydrargyrum

Post Number: 782
Registered: 3-2004
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 2:50 pm:   Edit Post

That's some crazy figuring on that top. I bet it looks even better in person. Best wishes.

Kevin
mica
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Username: mica

Post Number: 6701
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 5:39 pm:   Edit Post

Wow, that's a really neat top.
speicky
Senior Member
Username: speicky

Post Number: 404
Registered: 3-2005
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 4:30 am:   Edit Post

WOW ! There she is... absolutely breathtaking beauty, Mark. Lucky me that you sent the pictures to Art, I would have gotten blind :-)

cheers from Germany, from my Spoiler "Bridget" also :-)

Christian
paulman
Senior Member
Username: paulman

Post Number: 426
Registered: 2-2005
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 12:25 pm:   Edit Post

First Alembics are the BEST! Then you decide..."I wonder what another one would sound like..."

Congratulations, that's a looker for sure!
12stringwilson
Member
Username: 12stringwilson

Post Number: 68
Registered: 12-2008
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 1:26 pm:   Edit Post

Mark -

Congrats! That is one beautiful Spoiler. Good luck resisting the urge to want more Alembics. :-)

Welcome to the club.
clarkybass
New
Username: clarkybass

Post Number: 8
Registered: 4-2010
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 3:09 pm:   Edit Post

Thank you guys, It arrived early (this afternoon; I am in the UK) and I have been playing it non-stop. It feels odd having such a narrow neck, after all my Precisions (I have four of them!), but I'm finding it very easy for fingerstyle and the tonal range is superb. The quilt top is every bit as nice as it looks in these pics too! Very pleased :-)
artswork99
Moderator
Username: artswork99

Post Number: 1081
Registered: 7-2007
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 4:25 pm:   Edit Post

Congratulations on that timely (early, instead of Friday) arrival ;) Play it Healthy! Art

(Message edited by artswork99 on April 14, 2010)
sonicus
Senior Member
Username: sonicus

Post Number: 840
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 5:10 pm:   Edit Post

Beautiful , Congratulations!
crobbins
Senior Member
Username: crobbins

Post Number: 575
Registered: 6-2004
Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 1:11 pm:   Edit Post

Congrats.. Very cool..
the_mule
Senior Member
Username: the_mule

Post Number: 765
Registered: 1-2004
Posted on Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 11:47 pm:   Edit Post

Very cool indeed, your first Alembic is definitely in the same league of special as other "firsts".

Congrats & enjoy! Wilfred
clarkybass
Junior
Username: clarkybass

Post Number: 13
Registered: 4-2010
Posted on Saturday, April 17, 2010 - 2:52 am:   Edit Post

Update - the serial number is 86S4118
lscolman
Junior
Username: lscolman

Post Number: 34
Registered: 5-2009
Posted on Wednesday, May 19, 2010 - 7:15 am:   Edit Post

Hi Clarky,
Pleased you are enjoying my old spoiler. I couldn't be without an Alembic for long, and have the most fantastic Mark King Signature Deluxe now...

Cheers, Lee

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