Mr. Greene,  
 
I have nothing to say, but stand in humble awe of your perception and timing.  
 
Impeccable.
 
 
Charles

So I'm reading the May 2006 issue of Vintage Guitar Magazine and I get to the Q&A column on page 76, and, lo and behold, there is a letter from a guy whose bass feel out of it's stand onstage and was decapitated.  The writer signs Steve Wood!  It looks like one of us has been published!!!!  Congrats, Steve.
 
Bill, tgo
 
P.S.  The issue also has a story on guitar wiring through the ages that mentions four huge influences on guitar wiring in the 1970's:  Les Paul; Billy Lorento, who changed his name to Bill Lawrence; Bernie Rico, who started B.C. Rich; and Alembic, started in the late 60's as part of the Grateful Dead gestalt.  Unfortunately the article gets it wrong, writing that by the late 70's Alembic guitars featured preamps, onboard EQ, and a lot of switches for tapping coils and aligning phase.  
 
Go Olympic!!!!

This whole project has some seriously bad karma attached to it.  Susan told met that the load of quilted maple that was going to supply the killer quilt top for the replacement body was actually destroyed in a kiln explosion.
 
So, the rebuilt bass will have a name: Fawn Leibowitz.  Perhaps my stage name should be Eric Stratton.

You mind if we dance with your dates?
 
I think The Fawn is a great name given the chain of events surrounding this repair.  I am checking out instrument ins as we speak thanks to this thread, and you wonderful posters!

I use to touch fawn this way ,I know, she told me

I can personally testify to the quality work Alembic is capable of when this happens.
 
Go to the Factory to Customer thread and look down, down, down for Peghead Swap for Mike.  My Spyder required a new peghead after my singer was a little overzealous with microphone swinging.
 
I was horrified, of course.  But a most spectacular repair job was managed by the Alembic team, you can barely see where the repairs were made (see the photos on the thread), and I can detect no negative effects whatsoever in the playability and tone of the bass.
 
Your beautiful bass will rise again!!!!
 
Cheers, Mike Bisch

Ok. I'll bite. For the benefit of us Europeans, who on earth is Fawn Leibowitz?
 
Graeme
 
(Message edited by jacko on May 26, 2006)

A Google search on Fawn Leibowitz will tell you more - from what I can tell she's a character in a National Lampoon movie who is supposed to have died in a tragic kiln accident.

If you didn't scroll to the right, you might have missed the operative word in my previous post:
 
a tragic kiln accident

LOL! Fawn Leibowitz....from National Lampoon's Animal House, one of my favourite comedies of all time. Heck, probably one of my favourite films of all time (which may say a lot about me )
 
As for the bass, oooooouuuuchhhhhhhh. Glad it's going to be reincarnated. Wonder if it'll be one step closer to enlightenment? BTW Simon, thanks for the American Guitar Centre link; I want that Triple O!!!! Buckeye was actually my first choice wood but I couldn't afford it at the time....wonder if there's some way I could swing that? Hmmmmm........it may be clearout time.......

To my fellow Alembicians across the pond (be it the Atlantic, Pacific, one of the Great Lakes, the Straits of Juan de Fuca, Rio Grande, St. Lawrence or any other body of water I forgot), I will tell you this: it is simply not possible to understand America unless you have seen Animal House.
 
(Message edited by s_wood on May 28, 2006)

I'm from the UK and as I say it's one of my favourite films, for better or worse.....I remember my dad taking me to see it when I was about 14 or so and I've never seen a grown man laugh so much...