We need to make a few instruments for our new showroom, I'd love to hear some feedback on what I'm thinking about and I also welcome suggestions.

Skylark guitar: I'm thinking of a Quilted Maple top stained black. Chrome plated hardware. Ebony fingerboard with black and white mother of pearl eclipse inlays. Violet side LEDs.

Spectrum guitar #1: Walnut top with the new body shape (slightly shorter upper horn). Three piece neck of Mahogany-Maple-Mahogany. Bird's-eye Maple fingerboard with Walnut binding. Maple accent laminate and Mahogany body.

Spectrum guitar #2: Quilted Maple top bookmatched to center, tremolo! That's as far as I've gotten on that idea.

Brown Bass with antique copper or rose gold plated hardware (both new finishes I want to try)
Essence 5-string in Schedua with oil finish. EB=bony fingerboard, gold mother of pearl ovals, amber side LEDs. Neck: Mahogany, Walnut, and Ebony. East Meets West electronics.

Replica of one of Jimmy Johnson's fretted basses.

Replica of Stanley Clarke's Buckeye Burl bass.
Replica of one Phil Lesh's basses - short scale or medium scale though?

I Like all those ideas but think whatever you do should include one of these: resin top http://club.alembicguitars.net/index.php?topic=25281.0 because they are seriously amazing. Couldn't figure out how to just get the pic here. -__-;

My two cents would be a classic Point Series One long scale, in a wood recipe consistent with how they looked back then.  THAT's Alembic, that shape.

And as it's your showroom, one rig with the rack mount power, stereo into an f2b into a suitable power amp into separate cabs.

Just because.

Looks pretty much perfect to me :-)

I would suggest Orion 3+2 headstock and bird tailpiece for the Essence, I'm sure Jazzy will have some wild ideas for the Spectrum #2

You already know about my soft spot for Brown Basses... rose gold? Whassat? 

And a Phil Lesh replica might appeal more to me in medium-scale, but might be better as a short-scale for the masses.

I vote for a replica of Jimmy Johnson's 76-418, such a beautiful bass!

The Brown Bass with antique copper hardware sounds nice as well!

how about a replica of my bass old # 12,

EVH!!

ANYthing!!  Anything at all.  What a great idea!

Maybe an Omega cut Series I or II Guitar, koa body, spalted maple top and back (book match to center on top) with antique copper hardware, ebony fingerboard with golden mother of pearl inlays, and red side marker LEDs (blue or purple/fuchsia at 12 &24), flamed maple neck primary wood with Purple Heart and cherry laminates. 

I'm with Rob on the Omega cut idea.
Recently seeing pics of Steve's Skylark makes me vote yes to a stained black one that you mentioned.

But most importantly I am really happy to see Keavin back... been thinking about you, hope all is well! 

Nice to see Rob Kelly (mtjam) back here too.   


I have saved in my email drafts, the specs for a Custom Alembic that combines a good many features from a Brown Bass and an EVH Sig. (and of course some weirdness of my own)

Quote from: FC Bass on March 25, 2020, 02:29:02 AM
Looks pretty much perfect to me :-)

I would suggest Orion 3+2 headstock and bird tailpiece for the Essence, I'm sure Jazzy will have some wild ideas for the Spectrum #2

I would want to be the first to get hold of a spectrum with my wierd ideas when I can afford it.

Quote from: serialnumber12 on March 25, 2020, 04:54:57 AM
how about a replica of my bass old # 12,

That is one I'd love to see, there is somethong about those trapezoidal PUs that moves me.

A Series 2 Balance K 5 String, so I can convince Senior Management that I need it...