Dave,
 
Good lord man, this thread has a lot of us salivating...please don't disect our tongues...ha ha.
 
Your bass is coming along nicely, I can only imagine how nice it is going to sound.
 
p.s.
Where are you from?
 
Peace,
Darrell

Surely a featured custom!!!

Dave:
 
Very cool!  But a hell of an expensive potato chip, I'll bet!  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

I'm in the great tar heel state of North Carolina, USA!!
 
Actually, this is not the first they've done.  If you go to the Alembic Store, towards the end of the page there's a custom SC in BB too...it will be very similar to that one...
 
DML

It's a pretty typical color of slightly greenish blue stain. I don't bother with color correction on the FTC threads, a girl's gotta sleep sometime  
 
Here's a couple of new shots:
 
 
Logo inlaid, and ready to go back to finish for the last few coats.  
 
 
As nice as it looks, standard disclaimer of it always looks even nicer in person.  

Hey Mica,
 
Thanks for keeping the pictures coming.
 
She's a beaut...

The abundance of red in this buckeye burl is brought out nicely by the pinstripe color...extraordinary!  It looks like lots of galaxies floating amongst interstellar gas clouds.  A space bass, yes yes yes...
Dave, how 'bout playing the opening line to Dark Star when you first get this, you know, to see if it works?  ;-)

The abundance of red in this buckeye burl is brought out nicely by the pinstripe color...extraordinary!  It looks like lots of galaxies floating amongst interstellar gas clouds.  A space bass, yes yes yes...
Dave, how 'bout playing the opening line to Dark Star when you first get this, you know, to see if it works?  ;-)

Foth,
 
Checked out the Orion Nebula lately??
 
I'll have to look at the score, but yes...I'll do it and upload the mpeg or wav.
 
DML

Foth,
 
Dark Star by which artist?

David:
 
Dark Star by which artist?
 
I guess since you're fairly new around here, you may not have noticed that this site is inhabited by a healthy contingent of Deadheads and that the history of Alembic is substantially entwined with that of the Grateful Dead.  If you are not familiar with Dark Star, may I recommend my favorite version which is found on Live Dead which, IMHO, is the recording that most closely recreates the live experience.
 
Bill, tgo

Bill,
 
That's what I thought, but I thought I would ask!
 
DML

hi david
 
the 'live dead' version of dark star is of course a revered classic in the deadhead community.  but this is, after all, the alembic club, so i have an alternate suggestion.  imho the commercially-released version of dark star that offers the most quintessentially alembic sound is on the 'closing of winterland' cd.  the filters on phil lesh's bass were set especially nicely for that performance
 
 
marc

Looks like peacock feathers in the burl to me.  Very pretty.

Hmmm...you're right Dave, a striking resemblance to the Orion Nebula.  http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1995/45/