It's Saturday and I've had waaay too much coffee, so here goes.....
 
Alembic logo straps:  
Val, you've wetted the appetite.  Still waiting to see what they're gonna look like and what they're gonna cost.
 
Alembic String Club:
I love the CX-3 strings on my basses.  I wind up mail ordering them from an online string club because the prices are soooo good.  I'd rather send that cash to San Jose.
 
Peace,
 
James

James,
 I fully share your impatience about the straps, since I've already signed up for 2 of them.
I've been promised by Mica that the pictures (which she took already) will be up sometime this coming week.  The flu bug that bit almost everyone at Alembic has knocked back many of the office projects a few days.
The prices will be as follows: 80$ for pre-orders (which we'll start taking as soon as the pictures are up)  and 95$ once they are in stock.  How many we order at first will depend on the volume of pre-orders that we get.
 
I don' t know how feasible the string club would be,  that is a decision for Susan.
 
 
Valentino

Thanks for the quick response Val.  I'm fairly certain I'll be one of those pre-order types.  Times 2, of course.
 
And if ya could, stand behind Susan and keep repeating in a slow, low monotone string club...string club...string club
 
Peace,
 
James

Let me be the second to second preordering two. (Has my English gotten that obscure? - Yes it has!)
Mike

I'd like to be the third to pre-order.  By the way I'm with Malthumb:  String club...string club

Ok, I'll be the fourth to pre-order one.
By the way, what you guys call a thong overthere is what we call a string overhere, a G-strings that is. So I don't know if all dutch and belgium people (except for one, but he's more into nylon stockings) will join the string club.
 
Manfred

Manfred,  
 
I think a thong is the gent's version of the G-string. You know the Tom Waits song Pasties and a G-string? (Now how did we get from straps to pasties? And while we're on that G-string, we've just come full circle to Bach.)  
 
And OK, I'll bite: string club, string club, string club ...
 
Adriaan
 
(Message edited by Adriaan on February 10, 2004)

Hey I would like to have one of those Alembic straps too. Am I the fifth one ?
Let us know when these things will be available....
 
string club? may be a idea! ok, string club - string club.....

Okee let the Belgian dude play the dutch?
Any idea's what the price is going to be of those miracle straps???
(I don't dare to look ...it's going to be stockings time again.
 
Paul the bad one

Paul, are you sitting at the computer with your stocking on, as usual? the prices are listed above in my earlier post.  
 
Valentino
 
(Message edited by valvil on February 10, 2004)

***glups***

Actually...(how did we get onto this I'm not sure) in Europe from my experience a thong is called a 'tanga' (at least in mediterranean nations, I believe the name as well as the product originated in Brazil). The g-string has just a string on the backside (hence the name) a 'thong' has a little tiny triangle in the back.
 
 
Valentino

the perfect place for a little tiny Alembic logo.

.. and where else would you find such a bottom end ...

Yeah, it's called tanga and string tanga here in Germany. Wouldn't it be nice to have the Logo of the featured custom Alembic of this month on it? But I'm not sure if it would be very comfortable to wear while in sterling silver ;-)
 
Harald