A North Bay music store is calling this an early Alembic and asking $3K. Any idea what it might be, really?  The woodwork and inlay are really quite nice, the headstock looks Moonstone-ish, the electronics are okay...the pickups are Ibanez "flying fingers," and the logo has an eye inside it (hard to see in the picture).  Just curious.  

 

After posting this, I was browsing the previous posts and noticed the logo is the same as a bass that was on ebay awhile back - see the thread, Possible employee project? below from 3/19/06.  Then I googled Michael Dolan's website and it looks like the logo is his.  Mystery solved, I guess.

Joanna,
It certainly does show a strong Alembic influence, doesn't it?  Welcome to the club.
Rich

Joanna:
 
First of all, welcome to the club!  
 
Cool find, I especially like the circular control cavity plate.  Could you tell us which store is this in?  I'm in Santa Roisa on business later this week and if I have time I'd love to check this out in person.  It also looks like some other interesting vintage instruments might be found there.
 
Bill, the guitar one

Hi Joanna, welcome to the group.  Beautiful guitar!

Hi, Dave, Rich, & Bill -  
 
Thanks for the welcome.  I'm a guitarist and long-time Alembic fan who's never actually owned one - I simply admire them from afar.  (Now, if Alembic made a jazzbox...)  The guitar is at Players Guitars in San Rafael, 415-453-8531.  It stood out in part because the rest of the stock is mostly old Silvertones, Goya mixmasters & such!
 
Joanna

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