The Featured Custom is back. Please enjoy All About Color.

Yet another awesome Mystery Bass !

Lovely bass, bet it growls like a grizzly with that ebony laminate.
Am I right in saying that early Alembics just had the logo then the name came and now it is omitted.
Mine has the name, at what point did you decide to omit the name.

Nice top. I like the detail maple pinstripe in the neck laminates too.
 
terry. My '96 epic has the name. My 2005 rogue doesn't but there'd be nowhere to fit it as it has the orion peghead. Neither does my 07 Mk.
 
Graeme

very, very nice!

I Like it. Simply elegant.  
 
OO

Hail to new Featured Custom, Alembic always exceed in woodworking!
 
* Also dig the secret society stuff, LOL.

How the Mirtle Body affects the Tone?

Beautiful bass!  I love that Myrtle body wood!
 
Mario; Mica talks about Myrtle bodies on the Body Woods page.  Here's what she said about Myrtle:
 
The greenish color of Myrtle isn't the only distinction of this mighty wood from the Pacific northwest. On an Alembic bass, Myrtle keeps the extreme highs out of the picture and fills the bottom with solid lows. We compare it to the sound of Mahogany but with less on the top end and slightly less on the lows. Used mainly in Brown Basses and paired with a warm Mahogany neck, there is no shortage of bottom end. Myrtle is the standard body wood for the Brown Bass and an optional body wood for any Alembic.

I'm happy to see this bass - the neck laminates are almost identical to what I'm ordering (but my instrument will have flamed maple on the outside).  Looks like a delicious combination.

Very sweet indeed, and another download for my screen-saver rotation
 
Mike

Wow,
that is a cool bass......
Oliver (Spyderman)

My six string '78 Series I guitar is Myrtle wood.

Thanks, Dave

Very subtle yet ineffably custom.  Gorgeous!