Hallo,
I'm from Germany and I play this wonderfull Bass now about a cuple of years and almost ca 450 gigs. I think its time to know more about it.
Can you tell me how old this Bass is, and some more Informations you have about it.
Thank you very much, best whishes from Bavaria
Peter

Hi Peter, welcome to the forum!
 
The 98 at the start of the number tells us that your Excel was finished in 1998, and it was roughly the 11,862nd instrument that Alembic built.

Hello Adrian,
thank you for your answer, so I know a little bit more about my favourite bass.
Greetings from the winter in the mountains of bavaria
Peter

Hi Peter,
 
Here's the details I found in the instrument file:
 
XLB5 Excel 5-string bass
 
top: Flame Maple
accent: Walnut
body: Ash
neck: 5-piece Maple with 4 Walnut pinstripes
scale: 34 long
fingerboard: Pau Ferro
pickup: Alembic FatBoy
controls: volume, bass, treble, mono output
finish: satin natural polyurethane (oil-look)
birthday: November 17, 1998
originally made for: Station Music
 
That's all there is.