Here is a very nice bass made back in 1973.  It features a nice walnut top with lots of flame.  It also has a oak core with a neck made of mostly purpleheart with maple laminates.  Check it out!
 

Killer pickup covers, can alembic still make those?

Tracey-
go to the alembic basses and guitars section of this board -in that folder there are 2 threads-
1) color of pickups
2) caramel pickups covers
your answers (straight from Mica) await you
(they cant make the caramel pickups anymore-and these are pickup covers-the pickups are casted into the epoxy itself)

hey mike,does all of your old alembics have the same set-up as #49,(no filters?).or did alembic just did that to just a few of them?,,,,by the way one hellof a collection!

Keavin - Number 16 is the only one I have that has no filters.  And I have seen others like this too.  I have had the chance to play number 17, and it had no filters either.  I would think that there are not too many with this set up.  

Michael, this keeps me thinking about my custom idea of a bass with Series pickups and preamps only, no filters or controls.
 
Maybe next year!
 
EffClef

Hey mike, next to stanley clarke you must have the most alembics,,,or do you have #1,(?)

Quote from: Michael Delacerda (dela217) on November 23, 2002, 06:52:20 AM
Here is a very nice bass made back in 1973.  It features a nice walnut top with lots of flame.  It also has a oak core with a neck made of mostly purpleheart with maple laminates.  Check it out!

Michael - I learned about this bass from your hurricane thread... It's really beautiful and I admire you for working to restore it. In the meantime, would you mind sharing what's going on with the electronics layout on this model? I see what I imagine are two volumes, two filters, two Q switches, and two LEDs? Is that right? What do the LEDs indicate?

It's the same layout as the Series I electronics, but the trimpots for the gain of each pickup is mounted through the front  of the bass.

Quote from: mica on May 26, 2021, 03:04:42 PM
It's the same layout as the Series I electronics, but the trimpots for the gain of each pickup is mounted through the front  of the bass.

Oh - so those are trimpots... I get it.

Thank you, Mica!