Show your headstocks!

Started by hieronymous, July 10, 2010, 11:57:04 AM

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hieronymous

Haven't done a thread like this in a while. Let's share pics of the headstocks of our beloved Alembics!
 
I'll start with a two-fer:
 

 
Knobby pegheads on my '75 doubleneck!
 
OK, show 'em what ya got!

toma_hawk01


 
If Alembic basses could talk...
 
Tommy, you see what I see...  
 
Yeah, Shorty, one big happy family of cool Alembics...
 
Yeah, it's too cool bro...
 
 
 
(Message edited by toma_hawk01 on July 10, 2010)

tbrannon

I see the tomahawk has received some preventive padding!    Both of these basses have moved onto other homes, but here are the two I've had:  

 


rraymond

Proud to provide "Mica Supplied" shots. Mark King Deluxe with Fan headstock, and Excel.  

  The Elan and Series 1 had to make due with my photographic and editing skills!  

  (Message edited by rraymond on July 10, 2010)

hieronymous

Awesome! Keep 'em coming!
 
Here's the cone headstock from my first Alembic, a Spoiler Exploiter:
 

mg1125

I thought showing my 1997 Essence

 
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(Message edited by davehouck on July 16, 2010)

pace


adriaan

Here's my happy couple of cone heads ...

room037

Here are my 76' and 77' Fan head with 88' JJ sig. that I owned.
 

 
Eiji

room037

And unusual two Cone heads
 

Eiji

crobbins


tmoney61092

Mike Pace, thats a pretty awesome neck recipe you have going on there!
 
~Taylor
 
(Message edited by tmoney61092 on July 11, 2010)

dfung60

Here's my headstocks:  Graphite Series 1, seen here recently in another thread:  

  Series Exploiter with a nice cone:  

  Series 8-String knobby:  

  Series II 5-string:  

  My bass is the one on the the Series II product page.  This isn't the best headstock photo, but the back is pretty interesting:  

  This instrument is 35" scale, but I think that somebody may have missed that early on on the work order.  The scarf joint is really extended on this  bass, way past the headstock and down into the fingerboard area which you can see on the back.  When I first received this bass, the thinnest point of the neck was actually underneath the first fret area, sort of a negative volute that screamed "break neck here".    We did a neck profile rework on this instrument after the first completion which included some additional veneer layers on the back of the headstock so the headstock didn't seem quite so precarious.  There was never any negative effect on the sustain or tone before or after, but it did look pretty scary from the side. Nobody but Alembic could have done a fix like this.  I requested that Alembic do this bass with ebony neck laminates; this bass is the origin of today's ebony neck lam option.  David Fung

lbpesq

Some of mine:  



 



   Bill, tgo


shae

Here's the headstock from my 86 Persuader.  

 

  (Message edited by shae on July 12, 2010)