A lot of folks don't know that much about Alembic other than the name. Most of these seem to originate out of Texas which leads me to believe they are counterfeited there or just over the border in Mexico.  
 
Keith

Now that is just fugly...!!!

yup...the above pic is the one I heard about...

The original slime that made these basses basses was selling them to pawn shops where the value would be established by looking in the Orion Blue book - i.e. no pictures.  The volume made can't be very high, these were probably done by one or two people (in Houston) over the course of a few years.
 
Here is a web site by a person that got scammed: http://untweb.tripod.com/mgalfor.htm

There's an F2-B clone on ebay now, too. At least that one looks like a  quality piece, though I still find the concept offensive.

I'd feel worse about the F2-B clone if Alembic hadn't borrowed the original circuit from Fender.  There's no honor among circuit boards.

I contacted the Seller regarding the origin of the preamp unit  . His reply was that it had been built by an independent tech 6 years ago .  If you read his description on ebay  it looks like the seller has used a COPIED written description on the ebay listing from Alembic Inc. as well, It seems to me that this in not really correct eBay procedure. Perhaps it is not even completely legal ? Look at his low  positive feedback % figure .Perhaps  this is another matter for Mica ?
 
(Message edited by sonicus on May 20, 2010)

I made Mica aware of the F2-B clone the day it was posted.  Thanks!

I would guess that copying and pasting the text isn't allowed under copyright law, but I don't believe there's any recourse regarding the product itself.  Granted, I'm no lawyer, nor do I play one on TV. I'm just going from what I've read.

I wrote to the seller about the lifted text. Heck, the F-2B itself is largely copied from Tom Walker's design for Fender (of course, I am quite upfront about that fact even in our own sales literature).  
 
Hopefully they will amend their listing. If they relist without amending, I'll have to contact ebay, though I really don't like having to do that.