If you had a choice between willfully breaking your alembic or breaking it by some freak accident, which one would you preference in the most dreadful choice?
 
Let's have fun and answer honestly please.
 
I can't wait to read your response...

Accident, insurance wouldn't cover it where it on purpose.
 
Besides that I wouldn't want Susan and Mica ganging up on me.  
 
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(or is that Uh-OH)

bad dog

I hate suprises. It feels eerrie and it's hard to get over it.  
 
I would have to do it...
 
I like the false sense of control to a degree, and it takes the blame away from others and things potentially causing the problem. I can forgive me easier...

I hate suprises. It feels eerrie and it's hard to get over it.  
 
I would have to do it...
 
I like the false sense of control to a degree, and it takes the blame away from others and things potentially causing the problem. I can forgive me easier...

What if Pete Townshend had played Alembics?  Can you imagine him with a Tribute held high above his head as he prepares to smash it to bits as My Generation comes to a close.....

Already had a custom Spoiler 6 with Dragon inlay fall and break twice! Time speeds up so it feels like slow motion, the helplessness, then the nausea, then the anger, then the tears and lastly resignation to the fate of repair.  
Would not want to feel that for a 3rd time.

at least theyre pretty hard to break.

Freak accident, definitely...
 
BTW: mine already had one of these in a previous life, it was run over by the band's van.
 
Wilfred

Run over by the bands van!!!!!!!
My MK is glued to my hand until the solvent releases it once inside my car.
danno..major ouch x 2.
I prefer non of the two choices but if I did the second one maybe more acceptable(just!)

Intentionally damaging or destoying a production-line instrument is, and always has been, completely asinine.  Doing so to a hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind work of art would be the height of stupidity, and absolutely criminal.
 
Peter

Mike1762, I seem to remember a story about Entwistle having to break one of his Alembics.  He couldn't get the roadie's attention to hand him a breaker bass.  The time came for the breaking and he did it.
Peter, I agree completely. I would never intentionally tear up even a cheapo instrument.  If I don't want it I give it to someone who doesn't have any.
Sorry for you guys having to go through breaking one.  Danno, I guess having a bunch of them doesn't make it any easier.
There is a story in the new Bass Player about an upright player who was setting up for a gig.  His 85 lb amp rolled off a platform and landed on his $80,000 300 year old bass breaking it into pieces.  The guy who brought him a loaner let go of the bass not knowing that he was 8 feet away.  It crashed and broke up.  Bad day.
Rich
 
EDIT:  Hendixclarke, sorry for the brief hijack here.  If you have a bass you don't want and can afford to get rid of it for little or no money, here is an alternative.  Contact the music director of the local high school jazz band.  Often they don't have the budget for anything but an absolute cheapo.  That was the case locally.  I gave them a bass that was getting zero playing time.  They were very happy.  You would've thought I gave them an Alembic!
 
(Message edited by richbass939 on July 04, 2008)

shyt is going to happen!

As I stated elsewhere, go check out John Hiatt's song: Perfectly Good Guitar.  'nuff said.
 
Bill, tgo

 
 
Enjoy.
 
Bill, tgo