Here is something you certainly don't see everyday, a full range eight-string bass, no doubled strings. And it is a beautiful Alembic to boot. Looks like they decided to double up on pickups and stagger them to cover width of the strings and break the strings into a bass and treble side. There are bass and treble controls for each pickup. Quite a unique instrument!

https://reverb.com/item/82737357-alembic-rogue-2002-ocean-burst-custom-order-rare

gotta wonder how much something like that weighs. it almost looks like 2 four-stringers mashed togrther. zero radius fingerboard.  i  got long skinny fingers, pretty sure i'd have a tough time traversing the fingerboard from low string to high.  you could probably play a two-octave scale without having to move up the neck.  medium scale, no surprise there.  2 truss rods?  wonder how it's tuned?  so many questions.

Trip Wamsley's Custom...

http://www.alembicguitars.net/info/fc_trip.html

Weighs just under 14.5 pounds.  Zero radius fingerboard. Separate vol/bass/treble and outputs for the lower 4 and the upper 4. I'm wondering if the original intent was to play it like a Chapman Stick? It's gorgeous, but too much for me in multiple ways. 

Something like that was built during the year I worked at the Mothership for a guy from Las Vegas (who rode his bicycle to Santa Rosa to visit the factory, IIRC). Wouldn't be surprised if it was that bass, because how many could there be?

This looks like the perfect bass for Brendan Wires.

Amazing player! Check out the sound clips available on the website. I can personally attest that he really does play that well live - I've heard him several times. I couldn't believe he was playing in a little coffeehouse.

I have actually played this bass at namm when Trip was demoing   Amazing Beast! Trip is a true gentleman and very free with his time and talent.

and....gone!

congrats to the new owner. 

The bass will be traveling to Jersey next week. Special thanks to Heath at  Chicago Vintage for a great price and an easy transaction. 

Perfect home for this bass today. Bravo, Danno!

Thank you o' princess of the mothership. I couldn't resist this piece of history. I keep telling myself I'm done and I get whacked on the back of the head with a cosmic 2x4. So now I house 4, 5,6 8 and 10 string Alembic's   I sold the 7.
Hope you and the whole family are doing great and you're all in my prayers daily.

😄

Dannobasso
I send to thee mine sincerest congratulations for thine acquisition of this instrument !

Looks like this one has found a great new home. Play it in good health!