Series I Title (From the Alembic site)
In production continuously since 1972, Series I guitars are the classic Alembic guitar. We've refined them slightly over the years, but the essentials remain the same. We start with great single coil pickup sound with no hum thanks to our external "dummy" humcancelling pickup. The signal passes through our stereo electronics with each pickup using its own filter frequency and 3-position Q switch for crazy amounts of tone shaping.
Our woodworking is second to none. There are no shortcuts, no compromises, just good, solid craftsmanship. There's no secret to great woodworking, but you actually have to do it, and we deliver just that every day, every time.
The wood itself has a huge part to play in shaping the tone. Our wood selection is exhaustive, and we evaluate new varieties as they come to market. Nearly 40 years of careful listening to the wood's impact on the tone lets us guide you in selecting the right woods to give your guitar's natural tone something that you won't have to fight - it will be made to suit your needs.
This is an early (Alembic founder Rick Turner says first 20 likely) and Mica at Alembic indicated had to be first 30. This is an amazing extremely early Series I Alembic 6 string guitar. Featuring the early light brown pickups, hand worked brass cover plate, a beautiful inlaid headstock logo and some of the most incredible abalone inlay that I have seen, this guitar was decked out to the max with intense birdseye maple top and back. Rick Turner indicated to me that this was one of the first 20 instruments based on the logo, pickups, tail and his recollection of this heavy birdseye concentration.
Discussions with other Alembic players and luthiers indicates that it may partially be due to it's hand rubbed finish.
It is certainly a pleasure to play compared to similar instruments. Action is excellent and setup remains right on without any fuss. This guitar of course includes an Alembic power supply and pin cord.
I believe that this guitar is not only a fine player but an extremely rare part of Alembic history. It looks and sounds amazing.
Alembic's current price list:
Model 6-string 12-string
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Orion 6400 7900
Skylark 6800 8300
Further Stage 8500 10000
Tribute Stage 9000 10500
Little Darling 8300 9500
Spectrum 8000 9200
Further 12800 14500
Tribute 17600 19100
Series I 18500 20000
Series II 23500 25000
This guitar is available for
SOLD Contact me at barry@lobueguitar.com with questions or more information.
This is a terrific one of a kind strat style guitar built by Tom Holmes.
Tom Holmes had been chief repairman at George Gruhn’s shop in Nashville
and was building THC – ‘Tom Holmes Company’ custom instruments and were
sold through the Ax-In-Hand guitar shop in Dekalb, Illinois. Part of the
reason for building these guitars was to showcase a pickup design by
Holmes, which featured three coils. This is a professional instrument
made for Harold Bradley in 1980. Holmes told me that the pickups are
hand wound 7-8000 turns and 7k. Thiis is a solid mahogany body with
beautiful clear finish and a 3 piece neck. It is road used and road worn
- not shop worn. Very excellent instrument! 
