http://tucson.craigslist.org/msg/1696253835.html
 
I'm very tempted.  Is he asking a fair price?  Are there any probems I should be on the lookout for?  Thanks for the help!
 
Mark

The only thing im thinking is asking for pics & its gonna need a possible electronics upgrade......but nevertheless it's a fair deal but still talk him down if you can!

I talked to Tony when he had this Bass for sale about a year ago and I was planning on driving to Tucson , Arizona  to get it and then all of a sudden  my 97 Cocobolo long scale standard point Series II  came into my life .  I recently noticed that he had re-listed this Bass a while ago. He sent me pics of it a year ago. I believe that it is all original 1975 Alembic Series I  .I also know that it has a Rosewood finger board instead of Ebony. I might call him again as well But I am not sure yet how seriously I will pursue it .  
 Perhaps one of us will end up with it .

While I'm tempted, I'm a bit leery knowing that I'd probably need to do the electronics upgrade, which adds to the cost and time to get it to playing brilliance.  And yet, I NEED a series bass!

Mark,  My '76 is quiet,  no upgrade needed,  they are not all noisy.  My friends '77 is also dead quiet.  You would have to check it out.
 
Kenn

I have a '76 Series I guitar and a '77 Series I 12 string guitar.  Neither needed the electronics upgrade.  Both are quiet and I live in a congested urban area - San Francisco Bay Area.
 
Bill, tgo

Any thoughts about the rosewood fingerboard?  All Alembics I've played had an ebony board, and I'm curious what effects the rosewood board would have.  Anyone have a rosewood fingerboard Alembic?

My '76 has a rosewood fingerboard.  I can't honestly say that I have ever noticed any difference other then cosmetic.
 
Bill, tgo

I've now seen a photo of the spec sheet, and it lists the electronics as PFG CC.  Are those standard series 1?  It has the following recipe:
 
top & back:  padauk
core: mahogany
neck: maple, padauk laminations
fingerboard: rosewood
veneers: padauk, satin wood
tuners: schaller
inlays: abalone
strings: pyrimid [sic] gold
scale: 34
alembic electronics #:  PFG CC

The PFG CC notation seems a bit of a mystery.  Do you think you can get some good pictures of the electronics?

I can ask for more pictures.  In the meantime, here are a couple he sent me.  I'm going to fix the white balance just to get a better idea of what the top actually looks like....  

 

 

That's PF6, not PFG.  Haven't found anything on the CC part yet.

Circuit card?

That would be my guess.

Those look like the same photos  that he sent me about a year ago the first time that he had it for sale . We had a nice discussion about the instrument back then.