Beautiful bass
 
Mpingo is such wonderful wood.

mpingo: http://www.africanblackwood.com/english/index.asp
enjoy

Elegant... if it sounds half as good as it looks, this will be a special instrument.

Happy New Year new basses for 2011!
Something news for the new year ?

Hoping to get the rubout scheduled in the next week or two. The finish looks nice and hard now with a good cure.

sorry but what mean rubout scheduled and looks hard with a good cure ? My english does'nt perform that

The finish is already nice and hard, but they're letting it rest (cure) for at least two weeks, before doing a rub-out.
 
Here's a quick overview of how they do finishes, from the Factory Tour on the main site.

thank's adriaan, I understand now, but Alembic could change pictures of this factory tour, not a great publicity regarding the quality of the instruments

the fact that they put up pictures and explaination of the process is awesome, they could just leave you guessing on how they do things and at least you see that they are hand sprayed and not put in some machine that can make it uneven, guess i'm confused on how this reflects poorly of them
 
~Taylor

I'm just guessing Pierre is referring to the quality of the pictures on the factory tour page, as they are obviously a bit dated. seeing how mica has been updating other pages on the site recently, I'm sure she'll get around to updating that when she can.

exactly darkstar, maybe my meaning was not too much clear ?

Mica, any news/update ?

Just a couple of more instruments in line before yours. With just one person doing setup, there is a little queue, but your bass will be ready soon.  
 
I do need to update those old pictures! I haven't even looked at those pages in quite a while. There's lots of web updates that are in the works at this time. Good stuff!

             
   

All? ??