However, while it's ok to drool on your keyboard it's NOT ok to drool on the alembic you're holding :-)

So Jacko, are you saying it's considered bad form to use drool for Finger Ease? :-)

I think this one looks amazing; but it also sounds pretty amazing too.

more I play this bass, more I find it fantastic and I find some sounds that go beyond imagination!
 

I've got to agree with you Dave. Your 6 string is one of the most stunning instruments Alembic have produced in recent years*. I especially love the neck recipe.
 
Graeme
 
*. except mine of course :-)

Graeme; ours share similar shapes and woods, and yours has an especially nice top!

I just love the small standard - the symmetry, simplicity and compactness of it. But that said, I'm with Hal: I've never seen an ugly Alembic.

Ok, I'm kinda partial to:
 

 
Just sayin'.

I would be proud too...

Pierre has my fave Stanly,Graeme's Rogue, Bob Novy's modified Rogue, Poornigel's OtherTwin Europa and #12. For myself I hope to build an EMW persuader w/ an omega crown headstock, 5A quilt and lots of accents............

 
This picture just makes me lose my mind!!!  If this doesn't say SEXXXY, then I don't know what does!!!

My favorite body styles in no particular order:  Retro/Classic medium scale 4-string style: 72-01. Hard to beat the original with its symmetry and classic crown headstock.

  Contemporary long scale 5-string style: Europa with 3+2 headstock. Elegant, sleek and dangerous.

  Classic short scale 4-string style: Stanley Clarke Sig Deluxe. Petite with perfect proportions.

  Avant-garde 4-string style: Spyder/Exploiter with "V" headstock. Absolutely outrageous in every way.

  Just add yer favorite wood and electronics "recipe" to any of them and yer good to go, depending on yer mood.  That having been said, I'd be hard-pressed to identify an Alembic I don't like. Each one is unique and beautiful in its own way.

This sweetheart will be mine at some point in the future, and of course like women, sexy is in the eye of the beholder.
 
I'd love to see more pics of it but so far I haven't had any responses to my pleading e-mails.
 
The whole situation reminds me all too much of the 2-year long-distance relationship I had with the woman who was to become my wife while she finished her undergraduate studies and I was in another state in grad school. And before anyone asks, that was way before there was anything like skyping, sexting, and the like.  The internet was still just a twinkle in Al Gore's eye.

That is pretty darn sexy, Rami; I mean, if a man had a bass like that, he'd never need another instrument, right?
 
Peter

Right...wink wink