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Kiwi

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  1. [quote name='ped' post='213236' date='Jun 5 2008, 02:20 PM']Kiwi can you contact Alembic for a rough idea? Would be interesting to find out.[/quote] OK, I'll drop Mica an email and see if she's forgotten me yet.
  2. [quote name='richy316' post='213461' date='Jun 5 2008, 08:18 PM']Fair enough reason i guess! Don't worry bout your English, most of the people on here can't spell for toffee anyway![/quote] I'm guessing you might be one of them possibly?
  3. Hmmmm, well if we rehearse at the percussionists place a small combo would actually be pretty handy. The timing is pretty bad for me right now though.
  4. [quote name='johnnylager' post='213035' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:46 AM']But the inlays , the correct bridge p/u positioning , they'll flog plenty. And plenty more if they put the S-1 in. Will it have a 3-bolt plate though? [/quote] I think the correct pickup positioning is enough excitement in itself.
  5. [quote name='pnefc42' post='213160' date='Jun 5 2008, 01:04 PM']How much 'research' does it take to bung Rob an email with the S/N?!! About 10 seconds I reckon!!![/quote] Assuming Rob actually has a record of the serial, they're not consistent.
  6. [quote name='Nino Valenti' post='213171' date='Jun 5 2008, 01:10 PM']Taste_2000 told me about this place a while back and I looked around but never got a chance to sign up. Better late then never. [/quote] I know, that was the reason for my comment. As you say, better late than never.
  7. [quote name='ped' post='213013' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:16 AM']Kiwi, surely the list price of your graphite Alembic must be astronomical?[/quote] I understand it was incredibly expensive when they were originally made - much more so than a normal Series 1 and those were expensive enough. The selling point was the use of space age materials. But what the list price was and how it translates into todays money I couldn't say. [quote name='birdy' post='213037' date='Jun 5 2008, 10:48 AM']Its up for £5.9k and wasn't ever £6.5k - unless Alex is making a few extra quid on the side :-)[/quote] Well someone I remember mentioned it was £6500, but I can't remember who. F**king gorgeous bass though, and I say that as not being a particularly enthusastic jazz bass player
  8. Well I haven't a clue what some of my instruments are 'worth', however potentially some of them could sell for an awful lot more than I paid for them because they aren't made any more and very few were made anyway. The most I've ever paid for an instrument was my Ken Smith BSR6GN but my Alembic *might* be worth an awful lot more to a collector. Its a lot clearer with new basses like Foderas. Some of them retail for £6k easily. Birdy's '65 Jazz was up for sale at the Gallery for £6.5k.
  9. Ah Nino, welcome. What took you so long?
  10. In terms of what people paid for it, or likely market valuation?
  11. FWIW, the offer of an affiliates forum to any Basschatter who wants to pursue this commercially remains open.
  12. what key is that in?
  13. [quote name='johnnylager' post='192684' date='May 6 2008, 09:21 AM'] Glad you haven't lost your sense of humour with all that sh*te going on. Good luck mush. [/quote] +1 You're a trooper for putting up with it as long as you have. What an appalling situation to find yourself in! We had a pair of squatters/dealers across the street from me for a while until the police raided the place. There wasn't a car or basement flat in the street that was safe if there was anything remotely interesting or valuable on show. Made most of us on the street very paranoid but at least I know my neighbours and they know me.
  14. [quote name='david_l_perry' post='211588' date='Jun 3 2008, 09:49 AM']ETS-MK III Headless, rounded, 5-string Bass bridge (15mm spacing as my status)[/quote] Are you sure about that spacing? Status basses usually have spacing around 18mm. Even my Alembic only has 16mm.
  15. [quote name='Sugden' post='211010' date='Jun 2 2008, 11:20 AM']Alans seems pretty happy to tweek his designs according to customer prefrences.[/quote] I'll make a note of that for future reference.
  16. [quote name='Jean-Luc Pickguard' post='210738' date='Jun 1 2008, 08:28 PM']I don't know what I was thinking when I sold my Deep Impact [/quote] Don't despair, the values of the Deep Impact pedals will crash as soon as someone comes up with something better.
  17. I'll take the guitar off your hands I was just reading about this stuff the other day and this is an opportunity to whet my curiosity.
  18. A custom body shape?!
  19. [quote name='silverfoxnik' post='210785' date='Jun 1 2008, 10:00 PM']That's only 7 miles from where me and Walman live CK so you could've popped in for some tea!! Still, being Bognor, I think you did the right thing!![/quote] [quote name='WalMan' post='210822' date='Jun 1 2008, 10:51 PM']Amen to that [/quote] Hehe, well the rest of the band told me I didn't miss out on anything much. We were playing at a festival there apparently. Next week I'm in Sparsholt, near Winchester if anyone's around there?
  20. [quote name='beerdragon' post='210625' date='Jun 1 2008, 05:36 PM']I aint going to bother doing a revue of the plough inn after crazykiwis gigs. [/quote] Heheh, awwwww go on.
  21. I gig regularly with my Akai Deep Impact. Patch 1 gets used for Chaka Khans 'Ain't Nobody' and the chorus/breakdown in Outkast's "Hey Ya" uses Patch 9, the Moog squelch.
  22. Might be an idea to keep it a secret from ped
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