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mdrdvp
Junior
Username: mdrdvp

Post Number: 37
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 2:50 am:   Edit Post

For those of you who have nothing to do, or have a job and only say that they are busy. Here are some nice pictures at the Alembic Member Club in Japan. If you still have nothing to do, try translating the text for me.

http://www8.plala.or.jp/alembic/

Manfred
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 412
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 6:27 am:   Edit Post

WEW
Beautiful.
Did you see: most of the time Small Standard and Medium Scale.
The japanese average height of people is smaller than here I guess.
I love those SStandard bodies but would always try to have them in long LS neck (maybe with some countre-weight in the body for better balance).
Anyway ... a very nice gallery.
And big fun: My Mac translates the signs in ????????-signs.
LOL

Paul

BTW: one of the guitars shown has been in construction recently and you can see it in the factory-customer department.
davehouck
Member
Username: davehouck

Post Number: 55
Registered: 5-2002
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 7:46 am:   Edit Post

Hey Val, there are several Distallates like yours:
http://www8.plala.or.jp/alembic/gallery_pumpkin.html
valvil
Moderator
Username: valvil

Post Number: 134
Registered: 7-2002
Posted on Friday, May 09, 2003 - 7:47 pm:   Edit Post

Thanks Dave,

Mica told me they made about 300 of them exclusively for the Japanese market. Mine made it back to northern California somehow, it must have been homesick :-). I love the look of quartersawn zebrawood. The man I bought from about 10 years ago was switching to guitar, but he was not the original owner and could not give me any history on it. Mine is a long scale now, those should all be medium scale.

Valentino
basstard
Junior
Username: basstard

Post Number: 32
Registered: 3-2003
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 7:52 am:   Edit Post

Hey, isn't it maple fingerboard on this Elan??? A truly unusual option in an Alembic!
http://www8.plala.or.jp/alembic/gallery_hishii.html
palembic
Senior Member
Username: palembic

Post Number: 419
Registered: 9-2002
Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 11:38 pm:   Edit Post

Yep ...rare and VERY nice!
mica
Moderator
Username: mica

Post Number: 901
Registered: 6-2000
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 8:29 am:   Edit Post

The first Elan had a white painted fingerboard (the entire bass was white) made for Hojin Egawa, a talented bass player and the "H" in the Elan serial number code.

If my memory is correct, we made about 20 Elans with a Maple fingerboard for our distributor in Japan shortly after Hojin got his bass.

I really enjoyed Bassstar's website. I can't read much Japanese, but the design is great and the information seems very detailed. I love the graphics on the events page.
zappahead
Junior
Username: zappahead

Post Number: 20
Registered: 10-2002
Posted on Monday, May 12, 2003 - 3:52 pm:   Edit Post

That was a fun gallery to look at. I finally got see what a California special looks like, besides the one on product page. The sunburst finish looked really nice.

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