Yes, the legendary Olympic guitar actualy exists!  See it here.  (I wonder if people keep calling it Alembic by mistake?)
 
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/msg/217428923.html
 
Bill, tgo

Bill, are you going to buy this one just so you can truthfully say that you own an Olympic?
Rich

Rich:
 
Given as this weekend has been dedicated to building shelving over the closet in my den so that I can stack about ten guitar cases on this loft-like shelf, get them off the floor, and make my wife happy, another guitar is not in the program at the moment.  Though I have thought about it as a joke.  But gee, if you're really interested, the seller is only a hop, skip, and a jump over the hill or throught the tunnel from here.  You pay shipping handling and insurance.  LOL
 
Bill, tgo

Bill,
Thanks for the offer.  I agree that it would be worth $100 as a joke to have an genuine Olympic.  The next time someone asks what my basses are and then asks, Olympic?, I could actually say, This isn't an Olympic, but I do have one at home.
I haven't owned a guitar in 35 years but I've entertained the idea of getting one.  Lately the gigs I've played have involved a lot of responding to the guitarist's chord changes rather than knowing where the tune was going. I think it would help me out a lot to learn more guitar.  Besides the kids have been fairly consistently asking to take up guitar.  It'll happen one of these days, I'm sure.
Rich

Bill
 
Hate to hijack this thread, as one of my favorite band moments was letting my drummer in on the Olympic/Alembic joke, but, can we get you to share the shelving design?  A lot of us have a similar number of wives and cases as yours and could use the help.
 
dw

David:
 
I kind of blindly designed it myself as I went along.  The area presented a problem as it is over a wall-to-wall closet with no place for the traditional brackets on the ends.  The space is about 111, so I used two boards of 3/4 plywood, each 55 x 18.  I'll take a pic tonight and post it.  
 
Bill, tgo
 
(P.S. - my wife is now happy!)

My wife is now happy!
Bill-you must be the only one in the Western hemisphere whose wife is happy!
Congrats
George (the cynical one)

Here's some pictures of the guitar shelf.  A real Home Depot special - about $110 in materials, a bit of head scratching, a mess, and viola!  O.K., maybe not the Alembic of shelves, but it is a custom!  Bill, tgo  

 

 

Bill,
 
Maybe it's not the Alembic of shelves. But do you trust your carpentry skills enough to put your Alembics on the shelf?

Jonathan:
 
The Electrum is up there, lower right.  While I trust my carpentry skills enough for this project, I'm not so trusting about mother nature in these here parts.  Next weekend I'm adding a hook in the ceiling in the middle of each shelf that will connect to a bungee, the other end of which will hook into a hole in the front middle of each shelf.  This should keep the cases up there in the event of an earthquake.
 
Bill, tgo

Ah yes! Seismic considerations. I wouldn't have thought of that here in New England.
 
Oh, and sorry Bill, GO TIGERS!!!
 
JP

John:
 
I didn't know you were an LSU football fan!  Certainly you can't be talking about the Detroit baseball team.  If so, I feel sorry for you as they don't stand a chance against Zito, (he's a guitar player), the Big Hurt, the Little Hurt (Marco Scutaro), and the rest of the A's.  After all, the A's share the same air as Alembic - can't be beat!
GO OAKLAND!
 
Bill, tgo

Bill, I'm going to have to play the sympathy card, I'm a Red Sox fan. At least they won't be in the A's way this year! Maybe the A's will take Keith Foulke back?
 
JP

Go St. Louis Cardinals!

John:
 
A RED SUCKS FAN!!!!!!  
 
Oh yea, howzabout this:  
 
Bill Buckner
 
Bucky Dent
 
We kicked but on the Red Sucks this year.
 
Take Keith back?  When we've got Huston Street?  
 
Foulke off!  (sorry, couldn't resist)
 
Bill, tgo