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Custom Bass Wait Support Group Needed [Part 3]

#643
Can I get some support also?

Ordered this @ Alembic in April this year, should be finished in February :bassist:

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Almost ready for the finish :hyper:

Specs:

HLB5 Elan Long scale 5 string bass
34" scale
Maple core
3 Purpleheart neck lams
Comfort taper fingerboard
Outside flame Maple neck laminates
Black Tahitian MOP ovals
Flame Maple top
Sheer Black finish clear high gloss back of neck Jason Newsted style
Standard Alembic brass nut, Bird Tailpiece, Bridge and bridge block
Half Moon brass truss rod cover
Black plastic backplates
Alembic Logo and Script above nut
FC inlay @ 12th fret
Elan road case
JPJ pickups
Jazz pickups with pan control
P pickup with 4-way pickup selector (to switch/combine with J pickups)
Three 3-position Q, one for each pickup
3 filter controls, one on each pickup
3 internal gain trimpots, one for each pickup
master volume
mono out
 
#644
BlackElan said:
I am waiting for my Alembic custom shop Elan. Exactley like Jason Newsted's!

I placed the deposit back in December of 08. I am awaiting a thread with pics on the Alembic club.

Jason's real Elan was made in 89 and then upgraded to Series electronics and LEDs in 91 so I had to decide which era Elan did I want.

I went with the 89 era that has the J-P-J pickups. It took me hours of reviewing concert footage to make sure specs were 100% correct. Some things that are easily over looked like he had no bridge block and logo placement was under the strings. Also made sure to get the half circle truss rod cover as well.

Here is the bass I am talking about.



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How's your bass going? Been waiting to see the FTC for some time now...
 
#649


I'm sorry, but after watching the "Jason Newsted" video, i feel really embarrassed for him. Honestly, he's playing with a pick, (hence the tight string spacing) and i could understand that whole tight string spacing thing being tighter so that he could alternate the strings faster or whatever, but he is not playing anything musically in this video to warrant his using a guitar/bass pick.... I'll be damned if his excuse is tone........ he's not playing an acoustic, and he's running a dirty signal every step of the way.

I find Jasons solo to be a very poor example of creativeness on bass. Where the hell was the wow factor in that? Sadly looked more like a failed guitarist trying to live it up on a bass. That solo was like a beginner guitar student picking up a bass guitar for the first time trying to play the few things he's learned on guitar, but on the bass... If i'm lying i'm dying. :rollno:

The fact that he's playing on stage infront of thousands of people isnt the "WOW" i'm talking about... or him bangin his head getting all into it doent count either. I'm talking about creative writing. Good choice of notes. Sucks that youde have to be butt ass drunk sporting a mullet to rock out to that solo.... "IS THAT FREEDOM ROCK?? WELL TURN IT UP!!" haha.


alright now... back to my dungeon. :hiding:
 
#650
The_Owl said:
Well then it's not exactly like Jason's, is it now? ;)

Good choice with wider spacing.
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Thanx! Though I don't have any problems with both styles ( I have 3 Alembics with the tight (Classic) taper and one with the wide (Comfort) taper)

The one Alembic is building for Jason (Blackelan), is an exact replica.
Mine is more like a tribute and has more "upgrades" compared to the original: Electronics, Flame Maple Neck lams, bridge sustain block (solid brass block under the bridge) and the 12th fret inlay.
 
#651
hopefully i will not have the need to join this club. i only discovered it today though.

i placed my deposit in my custom build in last summer and the luthier called me this week saying that i he will have the bass ready in the next 26th December!!!

only a week to go, that is why i believe i will not need advice. the wait was long and painfull, it is not over yet but it will soon be over and i will have all the time to get my hands in my build.

to all the others that are starting or in the middle of "this journey", try not to think too m uch about the bass because that will make it even harder. i tried to forget about it and it helped vastly.

regards
 
#652
Jared Lash said:
Thanks. I am incredibly happy with the way it is coming out. Between the multitude of interesting top woods and the stabilized fingerboards he has at his disposal, there are some crazy combinations of woods available for ACGs.

But my favorites of Alans basses are the ones that are a bit more understated.

This one that he just finished looks amazing to me. From the ACG build thread:



And I love the "Lazerus" bass:

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My God that Lazerus is just off the friggin chain!!!
 
#654
Ammioz77 said:
My God that Lazerus is just off the friggin chain!!!
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Alan makes some simply amazing basses. And they sound and play as good as they look! He is extremely under-appreciated, IMHO, and I honestly think he is under-charging for his instruments by a wide margin (but don't tell Alan that! :ninja:). :D

Tom.
 
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tombowlus said:
Alan makes some simply amazing basses. And they sound and play as good as they look! He is extremely under-appreciated, IMHO, and I honestly think he is under-charging for his instruments by a wide margin (but don't tell Alan that! :ninja:). :D

Tom.
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+100!

Alan's a real hidden gem, but ssshh, don't tell everyone...
Oh, and I had the pleasure to play Lazarus a while back, what an incredible sounding bass, and like all of Alan's instruments it played like a dream. It's a damn sexy looking thing too!

Eude
 

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