The Featured Custom for November is up, and it's a gorgeous Further!  I love the top; and it matches up beautifully with the plated hardware and the inlays.  In fact, the hardware really pulls together the lines in the top laminate and the pickups and controls; it all really works well together.  Beautiful guitar!  Congrats to both Richard and Rachel!

Rachel is a very lucky girl and she has a dad with the finest of taste.  She is now spoiled for life with regard to electric guitars, however.
 
What a simple and stunningly lovely instrument.  That flame maple back is a gasser.

Congratulations Rachel!  Great choice of a Christmas present Richard

And a beautiful guitar it is!!!

That's a beautiful guitar! Rachel is a very lucky young lady!

Oh my goodness.  This is the first time in my life that I wished I was a 10 year old girl.  Way to go Dad!  I hope there's a father of the year mug in your future.  Heck, I might buy you one. :-)

Beautiful instrument, and a great father for getting his daughter something that nice.
 
Someday, I will order another series II that will definitely make the custom of the month list!
 
Congrats, Rachel.  Enjoy it - and remember .... it is the instrument of a lifetime.

AJ you are so right.  That is a precious heirloom to be passed down through generations.  Alembics are the Stradivari of electric instruments.

And here for 20 years I've been telling myself I was a really hip dad because I got my 9-y-o son a MIK Strat....................
Enjoy, Rachel!
 
Peter

The guitar doesn't maketh the man... or girl for that matter.  But whether it's a strat or alembic, having a start with an instrument that is going to assist your learning rather than frustrate your progress has got to be a great opportunity for a beginner. Victor Wooten learnt to play bass on an alembic at age 13.  
So she is in great company.
http://club.alembicguitars.net/Images/411/13503.html?1257644009
Jazzyvee

You are so right, Jazzy.  I was lucky and started on a Precision.  It was a little too big, neckwise, for my teenaged hands and was quickly swapped for a shop-damaged but lovely feeling Jazz Bass and the bond was made.
 
The right instrument is the difference between long-term love and complete frustration when you are a young player.

A beautiful instrument and one lucky young lady. However, having two daughters of my own I can't help but think what the conversation will be next Christmas.... actually dad, I've always wanted to play the Bass  :-)
 
Graeme

As if I needed any further incentive to get one of these...
 
Wow - really beautiful. +1 on the hardware. Details like that are what elevate these instruments beyond custom to functional works of art.
 
Enjoy it for many years to come!

Magnificent...

That's one hell of a Christmas gift!