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Very nice bass.
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| Author: | LUTHIERfromRcanSaw [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:29 pm ] |
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http://alembic.com:80/club/messages/631 ... 1187235525 Very nice bass. Any Alembic Bass lovers out there? Build documentation... |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:46 pm ] |
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Well, I designed that bass close to 35 years ago...it evolved in that particular form between 1972 and 1976. I was responsible for the overall design including the woodwork, the brass bridge, tailpiece, and back plate hardware, the oval inlays, and the pickups and for setting up the first three lutherie workshops where we went from one-off custom instruments into limited production. Ron Wickersham designed the electronics circuit. |
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| Author: | z ehley [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 8:01 pm ] |
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Yup, one right here. Nice work on the design Rick. I'd love to have a hippie sandwich. Its a lot of cash though. The headstock I on the bass I designed way back when has one of those hearts with a spire you see on some of the Alembic tails. I plan on incorperating that into some future acoustic headstocks. I draw it up in CAD a few months back. I'd share pics if I ever get back running with my account. |
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| Author: | Parser [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:01 pm ] |
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I really dig the Alembic style. I think they have some beautiful lines! I think that is one of the hardest things to do...to design something with lines that good. My hat is off to you Rick!!! |
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| Author: | Evan Gluck [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:05 pm ] |
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I had 2 in the 80's one was an Explorer shape. This got crunched in a car accident on the way to a gig in 86'. I miss that bass. Great work Rick, I am actually listening to some Dead from 76' right now. Guess you are in there somewhere. Best, Evan |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:11 pm ] |
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'76...that would probably be Phil on "the Godfather" bass...the one with the wavy stars inlaid in the koa face with the knobs at the points of the stars. That was an amazing bass! I made a quadraphonic pickup for it so he could play each string through a different set of speakers. Since his Wall of Sound rig gave him 36 15" speakers, each string could go to 9 of them. It was glorious. I did a fair amount of inlay on that sucker, too. George Mundy did the electronics on that bass under the direction of Ron. |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:17 pm ] |
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Phil & bass... |
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| Author: | Brad Way [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 9:41 pm ] |
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Great bass! I have always been a fan and owned an Alembic for a few years in the 90's. Unfortunately when I picked up my Pedulla bass I sold the Alembic. |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:02 pm ] |
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Still working on it! |
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| Author: | Evan Gluck [ Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:35 pm ] |
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Yup Rick, thats the one. Gotta love Phil, when I listen to the Dead I can tell which bass he was using by the intonation in the upper register it got better when he started to use the better basses such as the one in the photo. But I love it all, such a great player and of course Jack Casady. Best, Evan |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Sun Jan 27, 2008 1:56 pm ] |
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I built Alembic #001 for Jack. Unfortunately neither Phil nor Jack own those particular basses now, though both wish they still did. Nothing quite like a few years of substance abuse...and then going sober... |
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| Author: | Evan Gluck [ Sun Jan 27, 2008 3:39 pm ] |
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Cool, hindsight is 20/20 or just 10/10 if you also hocked one of your eyes during a drug binge. Any idea where those basses ended up Rick? Best, Evan |
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| Author: | Rick Turner [ Sun Jan 27, 2008 4:58 pm ] |
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I know the guy who owns Jack's #1 Alembic, and he's loaned it to me for a couple of museum shows. Phil's bass is in the ozone, and I hear it got hacked up to use as a pickup testbed by some fool who either has no idea what it would have been worth intact, or it may have such a drug deal/criminal activity line of ownership that nobody wants to admit to owning it. |
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| Author: | LUTHIERfromRcanSaw [ Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:29 pm ] |
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Rick, that is a great design. I have a couple in the shop now for some mods. Quite incredible instruments. |
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