Hey guys...I came across these on a recent search. I thought they might make for a great project for somebody into Alembic's, Alemicized Guilds or The Grateful Dead:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/msg/656459161.html
All you need is a trashed Starfire, and away you go. It is a pretty rare thing to find the set of coils together without an old Alembic wrapped around them.
Man, I would kill for those. Of course, I don't have $500 burning a hole in my pocket and I'm not very close to SF.
They would go well, though, in this slightly Alembic influenced aluminum neck project that I'll be building this summer:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v199/zezozeceglutz/alumibass.jpg)
(pretend it has strings, frets and real tuners)
You still need the $1000 preamp to go with those.
I'd bet you could cook up something for less at Radio Shack.
Quote from: eb2 on April 26, 2008, 03:16:59 PM
I'd bet you could cook up something for less at Radio Shack.
You can and I have but Radio Shack components aren't quite up to the standards Alembic builds by. ;)
Radio Shack's electronic components are garbage. we use them at work from time to time and they have a high failure rate.
Frye's has now surpassed them for drive N get it stuff.