It's a bass!
 

 
More pics in a few...

 

Amazing wood!!  I love the contrast, and how the front and back are aligned.

 
 
(Message edited by moongerm on December 20, 2014)

That is some insane book matching! Wow, beautiful!

Not only do I think this bass is beautiful, it's being shipped as I type.  I will be the envy of the universe!  I will rule all I survey!  Now, back to Earth, it is nice, isn't it?

Wow, and we all know pictures doesn't makes justice to the wood in person...

So true - the only Photoshopping I did was straightening/cropping and vacuuming the carpet!
 
This is an amazing bookmatch - what the pictures don't really show well is the layered effect that this wood has - there's like a watercolor wash that intersects all the grain lines. I think it was Don visiting on Friday that said the grain looked like magnetic domains emanating from the treble pickup.  
 
Stunning in every way, especially in the tone department.

Yes  ! Magnetic domains emanating from the treble pickup :
 
Very similar to the visual effect produced when a magnet is held directly on the viewing surface of a Cathode Ray Tube !  
 
Incredible looking wood ____ .  Sheer Alchemy !

That wood is spectacular!

That wood is spectacular!

The bass could be named Big Eyes, since the front has those lovely rounds.  Quite an awesome piece of Alembic tradition!

I drive to Atlanta tomorrow (Tuesday) to see it, admire it, touch it, smell it, hold it, play it, caress it, have my picture taken with it, then carefully put it in it's case and take it home with me.  Then I will plug it in to my Eden Traveler 550, let the sound come alive through two Eden XLST 2x10 cabs, and bask in it's ...
(I will let y'all's imagination complete the thought - it's the least I could do)
 
(Message edited by wick5 on December 22, 2014)