Frank Gambale's Alembic Guitar

Started by jazzyvee, April 16, 2012, 04:03:14 AM

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jazzyvee

That configuration would be a perfect stage guitar for me. Three pickups, filter and blade switch.  However my musical instrument budget is closed for the foreseeable future.
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170824911374+&item=170824911374&lgeo=1&vectorid=229466
 


 
Jazzyvee
The sound of Alembic is medicine for the soul!
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_ktwins.html

jacko

Sweet. Almost makes me wish I didn't have sausages for fingers.
 
Graeme

funkyjazzjunky

Bookmatched to center Cocobolo
No inlays  
Very classy and beautiful

gtrguy

Nice guitar, looks kinda like an Electrum to me though. Who is Frank Gamble?
 
Dave


mica

No, not an Electrum, but a Spectrum with a Small Standard body. The Electrum body shape is a little bigger and not totally symmetrical.  
 
The guitar wasn't made for Frank, but it was a custom build. I added a copy of the picture with the signature to the instrument file today. Another little trivia: Frank's brother was our importer to Australia many years ago.

sjhoffma

Seeing stuff like this makes me depressed, and in this economy... bitter...  
 
I agree with jazzyvee, perfect stage guitar for me, but alas my instrument budget is also currently non existent.  Someone on this forum better buy this guitar, (so I can buy it from you sometime down the road!) lol

jazzyvee

I think if I didn't have my dragon, I'd have made a bid for that. Not because of the connection to Frank but because I'd seen one like that a few years back for sale here and missed it and never seen another one since. The Strat  layout  of three pickups, 5 position blade switch, master volume and filter suits me perfectly...
straightforward simple to use and intuitive to me. :-)
 
That sure is a sweetie.
Jazzyvee
The sound of Alembic is medicine for the soul!
http://www.alembic.com/info/fc_ktwins.html

gtrguy

Ah, yes. Close resemblance to an Excel but not exact.

gtrguy

Opps, meant Electrum! Getting old...

mica

We make it easy with them E names!

slawie

"Commitment is what transforms a promise into reality."
Abraham Lincoln