I hope the year of dragon bass will soon complete my page:
http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/alembic.htm

You have some good pictures and memories on your page.  
I've enjoyed looking at them and listening to your bands.  
 
Vous avez quelques bonnes images et m?moires ? votre page.  
J'ai eu plaisir ? les regarder et ? ?couter vos bandes.
 
Jazzyvee

Thank's Jazzy, your comment are always kind. Sadly I don't have something good to record with satisfaction.
Merci d'avoir fait l'effort de traduction

Congrats. This will be a good one. Cheers!

This Bass will be unique, very special. Great idea having its top in dark wood contrasting with that light creamy maple. Oreo Bass!

Oreo ?  I don't know what it's mean... But thank's  
Mica, please, may you post a picture of a beveled peghead and not beveld peghead ?  
I asked too for MOP pictures because I'm not sure what is black thaitian MOP.
I want the usually MOP.
 
... I was looking on Keith bass (congratulation  ) and now I hesitate between gold plated or chrome hardware...
 
Thank's in advance
 
(Message edited by pierreyves on March 21, 2010)
 
(Message edited by pierreyves on March 21, 2010)

Pierre-Yves - Oreo is the famous chocolate cookie. It has dark black for the top and bottom, with some very light vanilla cream in the middle. Supposed to taste great after you dip it in milk.

LOL !! beurk... I don't like cookies...
for my breakfast, green tea, bred, pure olive or argan oil, one apple, one glass of apple juice.
Long life to play my black sc

Hi Mica, when you have time before I will order this bass, please post pictures of peghead with and without bevel AND black thaitian MOP AND gold versus chrome harware on a dark bass.
THANK'S

I will be looking forward to the factory to customer thread for this bass too.
 
Whenever it happens.
 
Good luck, Pierre-Yves!

I'm waiting and looking for some details like gold or chrome hardware, beveled or not peghead... I'm waiting for Mica's pictures about this.
After, the retailer I choose will be able to do a correct price proposition... I hope the thread can start in 2 weeks ?

Wow, do it in Gold plated Hardware if you can. You're not looking for advice, but gold contrasting with dark wood will be simply outstanding!

Here's an example of the peghead bevel:
 


 
 
You've got examples of a peghead without a bevel on each of the Alembics you currently have.  
 
This shows the gold hardware pretty well.  
 
And here's one for the chrome hardware.
 
For the black mother of pearl, this image shows a range of colors:
 


 
 
The color is a smoky gray, but still can flash out to pinks and greens like regular white mother of pearl. Each of these pieces will look different. Here's the same inlays above, from a slightly different angle:
 


 
 
Hope this helps.

Yes it's help me and do trouble too... I was speaking with my wife and Tony, I would prefer chrome (not for cost, but for somthing sober with black wood...), difficult to decide...
For inlays, definitely abalone.
For peghead, definitely beveled.

new specifications after mail with Susan:
 
1/ short scale 30,3/4 inches, 4 strings, right handed, fretted series II with series I electronics
2/ 3 neck laminates african blackwood/maple based on 7 pieces.
3/ abalone inlays
4/ side leds amber
5/ crown peghead with bevel front and back
6/ top, back, body and continuous back plate + truss rod cover with african blackwood (estimated weight versus coco bolo ?)  
7/ gold/chrome plated hardware with bird tailpiece
8/ inlaid logo with shell
9/ gold/chrome shaller machine heads
10/ little larger maple on body as show with attachment picture, but not change body specification.
11/ neck/body dimensions the same standard as my 2004 model, not the new 2009 neck dimension.
12/ standard polyester gloss finish
13/ serie I electronics
14/ a raisonable term of schedule