Dang - someone buy this thing for me, it's my birthday!
 
http://cgi.ebay.com/1975-Alembic-Series-I-guitar-w-case-power-supply_W0QQitemZ7347115377QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

I'm looking at it too.  I got the serial number from the seller and posted an info request in the basses & guitars section.
 
Bill, tgo

I checked this earlier and saw no bids. I just went back to place one and, low and behold, saw a very familiar lbesq as the sole bidder. Bill, I grant you squatter's rights and hope you win. It's a real beauty!
 
Regards,
 
Jonathan

Was this the same one listed on eBAY a few months ago? I think the last owner was in Santa Cruz?!? Remember?!?  
 
Show no mercy Jon! Bill snagged a SF-2 right out from under me a while back... lol.....  I have 5 days to knit some stockings and plot my revenge!  
 
Happy b-day James!!! ~ mine was on Sunday

Mike,
 
I'm almost certain this is the same one. The original seller auctioned 2 within a short time frame I believe (a '75 and a '76), several months ago. The hardware was a little more polished on the first and the zebrawood a little more heavily flamed. I got outbid on that one.  
 
This one's all Bill's. The last thing this site needs is a doctor and a lawyer slugging it out!
 
Regards,
 
Jonathan

Jonathan:
 
I appreciate the thought, but go ahead and bid away.  This one's getting a little rich for my blood, considering that 1. - it has not had an electronics upgrade, so add $1500 to the selling price, and 2. there's something about this particular zebrawood top that just doesn't appeal to me as much as most of the early brownies.
 
Bill, tgo

Let's feed it to the birds!

Can someone tell me what is so odd-looking about the way the E string comes over the nut and meets with the tuning peg? It appears too close to the A string as it meetes the peg.
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I just might bid on this one myself - even though my wife would crucify me for doing so after JUST having purchased a mildly customized '64 Jazz Bass and '04 Alembic Essence w/LEDs and Q (in Coco Bolo, no less!).
 
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It appears that the way the tuners were installed on the peg head (i.e., in an hourglass shape) is resulting in the string/peg interference you're citing. If they were vertically aligned (i.e., each of the three per side), this wouldn't have occurred.