Kiwi

[quote name='LE_Gui' post='213810' date='Jun 6 2008, 12:51 PM']Hi, I'm a 28yo frog bassist (in Marseille, France), usually having french bass forums as pond (forum.onlybass.com is my main jumping area) I've been playing bass for about 13 years now, in cover bands and also in a metal band. I plan getting this metal band up again on of these days and I would also like to get a funk-rock band on my own since I got a lot of funky slapping parts that can't be used in a metal context Anyway, I'd be glad to discuss here and why not meet some english members if you come in France or if you use msn Thanks for your attention Guillaume[/quote] LOL, nice intro Welcome Guillaume (another one!)

Nice bass but what bits of it are actually from 1975?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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price of your graphite Alembic must be astronomical?[/quote] I understand it was incredibly expensive when they were originally made - much more so than a normal Series 1 and those were expensive enough.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

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.

Ah Nino, welcome. What took you so long?

In terms of what people paid for it, or likely market valuation?

When's Julian Crampton playing next?

lol

what key is that in?

[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.

[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.

[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.

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.

A custom body shape?!

[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?

[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.