| Author | Message | ||
| malthumb
Intermediate Member Username: malthumb Post Number: 158 Registered: 5-2002 |
It's Saturday and I've had waaay too much coffee, so here goes..... Alembic logo straps: Val, you've wetted the appetite. Still waiting to see what they're gonna look like and what they're gonna cost. Alembic String Club: I love the CX-3 strings on my basses. I wind up mail ordering them from an online string club because the prices are soooo good. I'd rather send that cash to San Jose. Peace, James | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 330 Registered: 7-2002 |
James, I fully share your impatience about the straps, since I've already signed up for 2 of them. I've been promised by Mica that the pictures (which she took already) will be up sometime this coming week. The flu bug that bit almost everyone at Alembic has knocked back many of the office projects a few days. The prices will be as follows: 80$ for pre-orders (which we'll start taking as soon as the pictures are up) and 95$ once they are in stock. How many we order at first will depend on the volume of pre-orders that we get. I don' t know how feasible the string club would be, that is a decision for Susan. Valentino | ||
| malthumb
Intermediate Member Username: malthumb Post Number: 159 Registered: 5-2002 |
Thanks for the quick response Val. I'm fairly certain I'll be one of those pre-order types. Times 2, of course. And if ya could, stand behind Susan and keep repeating in a slow, low monotone "string club...string club...string club" Peace, James | ||
| dadabass2001
Member Username: dadabass2001 Post Number: 64 Registered: 6-2002 |
Let me be the second to second preordering two. (Has my English gotten that obscure? - Yes it has!) Mike | ||
| jorge_s
Junior Username: jorge_s Post Number: 26 Registered: 8-2002 |
I'd like to be the third to pre-order. By the way I'm with Malthumb: String club...string club | ||
| mdrdvp
Member Username: mdrdvp Post Number: 92 Registered: 7-2002 |
Ok, I'll be the fourth to pre-order one. By the way, what you guys call a thong overthere is what we call a string overhere, a G-strings that is. So I don't know if all dutch and belgium people (except for one, but he's more into nylon stockings) will join the string club. Manfred | ||
| adriaan
Intermediate Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 119 Registered: 6-2002 |
Manfred, I think a thong is the gent's version of the G-string. You know the Tom Waits song "Pasties and a G-string"? (Now how did we get from straps to pasties? And while we're on that G-string, we've just come full circle to Bach.) And OK, I'll bite: string club, string club, string club ... Adriaan (Message edited by Adriaan on February 10, 2004) | ||
| kalle
New Username: kalle Post Number: 5 Registered: 2-2004 |
Hey I would like to have one of those Alembic straps too. Am I the fifth one ? Let us know when these things will be available.... string club? may be a idea! ok, string club - string club..... | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1026 Registered: 9-2002 |
Okee let the Belgian dude play the dutch? Any idea's what the price is going to be of those miracle straps??? (I don't dare to look ...it's going to be stockings time again. Paul the bad one | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 332 Registered: 7-2002 |
Paul, are you sitting at the computer with your stocking on, as usual? the prices are listed above in my earlier post.  Valentino (Message edited by valvil on February 10, 2004) | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1027 Registered: 9-2002 |
***glups*** | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 334 Registered: 7-2002 |
Actually...(how did we get onto this I'm not sure) in Europe from my experience a thong is called a 'tanga' (at least in mediterranean nations, I believe the name as well as the product originated in Brazil). The g-string has just a string on the backside (hence the name) a 'thong' has a little tiny triangle in the back. Valentino | ||
| wayne
Member Username: wayne Post Number: 90 Registered: 5-2002 |
the perfect place for a little tiny Alembic logo. | ||
| adriaan
Intermediate Member Username: adriaan Post Number: 121 Registered: 6-2002 |
.. and where else would you find such a bottom end ... | ||
| harald_rost
Junior Username: harald_rost Post Number: 45 Registered: 6-2002 |
Yeah, it's called "tanga" and "string tanga" here in Germany. Wouldn't it be nice to have the Logo of the featured custom Alembic of this month on it? But I'm not sure if it would be very comfortable to wear while in sterling silver ;-) Harald | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1028 Registered: 9-2002 |
Oh ...huh ...let me see: beer, female underware and some basses ...yeah right ...I found the Alembic club! Definitely! Hi guys!!! Paul the bad one | ||
| gbarchus
Junior Username: gbarchus Post Number: 47 Registered: 6-2002 |
How about a sterling silver Alembic logo pin (ala vest pin or tie tack)? | ||
| mdrdvp
Member Username: mdrdvp Post Number: 94 Registered: 7-2002 |
A sterling logo pin on the back of that little triangle thong thingy? Better not sit down. Manfred | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 215 Registered: 11-2003 |
The Alembic thong already exisists. http://www.cafeshops.com/alembicstuff.8207078 | ||
| harald_rost
Junior Username: harald_rost Post Number: 46 Registered: 6-2002 |
oops, I didn't know that there are so many alembic logo stuff things at cafépress. But I heard their t-shirts are very poor quality? Can anybody share this? Harald | ||
| bracheen
Advanced Member Username: bracheen Post Number: 216 Registered: 11-2003 |
I don't know about the t-shirts. I have the crew neck sweat shirt and it's pretty good. It's just a standard cotton sweat shirt but the logo is well done. Sam | ||
| poor_nigel
Junior Username: poor_nigel Post Number: 23 Registered: 7-2003 |
Hooded sweat shirt is great and the logo on it is quite well done. I know nothing of the t-shirts, but I did have problems with other Alembic logo items I got from Cafe Express. | ||
| muller1007
Junior Username: muller1007 Post Number: 44 Registered: 5-2002 |
Guess I'm the sixth in queue for the Alembic Strap. Can't wait to see it. I do hope the Alembic logo will be prominently/proudly present on the strap. Duncan | ||
| alembic76407
Advanced Member Username: alembic76407 Post Number: 251 Registered: 5-2002 |
Do the straps come with a straplock system ?, if not, they should. | ||
| muller1007
Junior Username: muller1007 Post Number: 45 Registered: 5-2002 |
I reckon they will fit the Schaller straplock system perfectly. These are available through any major music store. | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 340 Registered: 7-2002 |
Well ... generally it's the basses that come with straplocks (though not all of them). I never had an easier time putting on straplocks on a strap (schallers). The leather is so soft it was a breeze. Valentino | ||
| malthumb
Intermediate Member Username: malthumb Post Number: 162 Registered: 5-2002 |
Ummm....Val....Your last post would make one believe that you have actually had your hands on one of these straps. Do I need to get palembic to come in here and demand pictures or you gonna volunteer 'em peacefully? Peace, James | ||
| valvil
Moderator Username: valvil Post Number: 341 Registered: 7-2002 |
Well, yes James. we do have a sample strap, but Mica's the one with the pictures, I've been bugging her daily, and it's not that she doesn't want to , it's just that ...there's so much to do...and we ALL got sick in the last 2 weeks. and it was pretty hectic for while...Ron, Susan, Mary, Mica & me, not to mention some of the guys in the shop as well. Ron and Susan have been hit the worst, but we're all recovering ok, I guess. I hope to be back at work on Monday Valentino | ||
| palembic
Senior Member Username: palembic Post Number: 1046 Registered: 9-2002 |
Yep I heard! I phoned the evening I was driving to my gig to gather some encouragement and motivation talk. I met a lonely Mary on the phone who told about the flu-strike on the Alembic premises. Moder, are you -apart from testing the outgoing basses- desinfecting them too?? LOL Paul the bad one Oh ....huh ....BTW "pictures - pictures-pictures" - com'on Pauls yell with me. However ...I feel a little uncomfortable ...to yell for a ...strap. We normally are devoted guitar-picture-yellers. Maybe we should discuss this first in the group. Oh boy ...let me stop ...I'll get 2000 before I know ...THAN I'm in trouble | ||
| malthumb
Intermediate Member Username: malthumb Post Number: 163 Registered: 5-2002 |
Val, Thanks for staying on top of this one. Especially while riding out the flu. I want you to recognize that I'm not trying to be insensitive. Just poking a little fun at you. Having had the flu just before Christmas, I do know that there is absolutely nothing fun about that at all and I commend you for having the stamina to play along in my little thread. I'll turn down the jets and wait patiently. You get lot's of chicken soup and heal thyself. Peace, James |
