Alambic bass on CL in CA


https://sacramento.craigslist.org/msg/d/woodland-alembic-night-bass/7851524088.html

That's a cool Shopnight. Like what I'd build if they let the guy who swept the shop at night build one. And the CL ad is great...

Omega with a "Fan" peg head 

WILD 

well i can tell ya, nothin wrong with a shop night bass.  the mighty A-Bass is a shop night bass with a well-travelled history.  it's got its quirks, and i wish it had 5 strings but it plays and sounds like no other fretless i've ever seen.  one of the drawbacks of playing in an 80's cover band is that my fretlessesss have been riding the bench and the MKD gets all the stage time.  i gotta get this one in front of an audience before i kick hte bucket.

I do believe they are a little bit skewed in their timeline of having played this one from '72-'99. I see nothing about that bass that suggests any older than '76. I'd guess more like '78. But if I've learned nothing else from notorious bluegrass circles East of the Mississippi, it's to never argue with a banjo player. Just go on and think what you think, put the 5 chord in front of the 6min and let them figure it out the hard way.


It's such a cool bass, who cares what year? I'd be more interested in knowing which employee built it.

I do see that the bridge rides on some brass rather than the body of the bass. That seems odd.