http://www.ebay.com/itm/1991-Alembic-California-Special-Electric-Guitar-Alembic-CSLG6-/220939824740?pt=Guitar&hash=item33710a2e64
 
also this one is back again
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Custom-Fender-Stratocaster-Alembic-Brass-Hardware-MIJ-Fender-Japan-62-Neck-/300654032235?pt=Guitar&hash=item460060756b

Pretty guitars but a little pricey in this economy. There is a nice Electrum on CL for sale:
 
http://portland.craigslist.org/mlt/msg/2773601809.html  
 
I'd love to find a nice 80's MIJ Strat with a thick neck and stock PUP and trem configuration (no humbucker or Floyd Rose), but the the several I have seen fall into the 500 - $600 range these days.

That Electrum can't be from 1979. Maybe 1989.

Mica, I was going to question that as well, especially with the H/S/H pickup config.... Which leads to my next question~ When did Alembic produce the first non-series GUITAR? (wolf and other one-offs aside).... Was there a six string distillate equivalent in the late seventies?