ACG Harlot Fretless 4: FINISHED :: "Looks like a Mediterranean ocean under an indigo sky"

[Buzz]

zoinks!

That's ruddy lovely.

[Kiwi]

Oh bloody hell, thats gorgeous.

Well done Alan!!

[Rich]

It looks like a piece of purple silk rippling in a breeze... [size=1]ooh, get her with the poetry eh? [/size]
That is stunning

[Brave Sir Robin]

Hardware colour? I wonder how chrome would look with that. Maybe not the bridge though.

[Sugden]

Well hardware colour couldn't be anything but black so it all ties together well but here she is im totaly stunned I rather pleased to say the least

O had to update the title of the thread and quoted paul, hope you dont mind. But I think it covered it better than a purple world as its more trans blue. Alan said its blue straight on and then from certain angles a purple. So the best of both worlds.

Edited August 30, 2007 by Sugden

[Alpha-Dave]

Mmm, shiny.

Very nice work, but needs more strings.

[BigRedX]

Absolutely stunning!

Is that the filter pre-amp? Will you be posting some sound clips?

So many questions....

[Sugden]

Ner just each of your basses have too many strings mate. 4 is the magic number (ok ok i know 3 is the magic number that just wouldn't work as well)

It is indeed the filtered pre. I dont really have the facility to record at home when Im at uni I shall so in awhile I will at least have a track recorded by it. I will be bringing this little number and my recurve to bassday UK though.

[GreeneKing]

What a completely superb result. You must give me some gig dates Paul as I'm 'seeing' someone who lives near Manchester and would love to see and hear your Harlot in the fleish'.

I'm off to Moffatt today

Peter

[bass_ferret]

Absolutely Fabulous. Thems big ole buckers on there as well. Must sound huge!

Perfect choice of number of strings btw.

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='Alpha-Dave' post='52558' date='Aug 29 2007, 11:32 PM']Very nice work, but needs more strings. [/quote]

this man speaks the truth, 'e does.

[andyonbass]

Congratulations, another stunner from Alan!
I have to say, I was a little dubious when you first announced the colour, but I'll have to eat my words, that looks fantastic!
Gotta love those humbuckers too!!

[d-basser]

beautiful

so many people put gold hardware onto purple basses and ruin them imo, this one is lovely.

my girlfriend would cut your hands off for it, she loves purple

[Bassmonster]

wow, stunning, especially when the light hits it

[EdwardHimself]

[quote name='d-basser' post='52913' date='Aug 30 2007, 05:52 PM']my girlfriend would cut your hands off for it, she loves purple[/quote]

i'm sure he'd rather loose his hands than this bass

[paul, the]

I ought to get t royalties for the title quote. Cost: One ACG Harlot Fretless 4.


j/k


Lovely bass. Purple is the colour of funk.

[metalmaniac]

Schweet

[Treeb]

Congrats on your new arrival - absolutely stunning.

These ACG builds give me [i]really[/i] bad GAS ... and Moffat isn't too far away ... I'll need to start working on the brownie points

[skelf]

Treeb and bassmonster you are both more than welcome to drop in anytime you want just give me a call (number on the site) to make sure I will be about.
Cheers
Alan

[GreeneKing]

There's only one thing in my bass life that's better than having a bass made by Alan and seeing photos of it, and that's actually having your mitts on it.

As of 11 am today I did just that.

The real thing is even better than I anticipated (and that's really something). The quality is peerless and the pre-amp is intuitive although I've only just started my sonic exploration.

Alan's neck shaping is amazing as the neck is shallow and assymetric, it's a real piece of art, that works. Upper fret access to the 24th is brilliant and the bass makes me want to learn to play it to a level that suits its quality and ability.

[Sugden]

Its all down to alan really can't thank him enough really nice guy and puts out great basses to boot.

Thanks for the comments guys. But think Id rather loose the bass than my hands I'll just have to get alan to make me another and this time run faster otherwise id have no way to play the basses he builds me, which would be a great dis-service

Nothing like getting hold of the bass is there Peter I had some major work to do last year but when it turned up at my door couldnt put it down for hours and thats not including the time you spend looking at it. Take a trip up or get it sent down if so bet its nice at alans atm with all these great basses around. Im going up on the 8th simply can't wait.

[steve-soar]

Sugden, you know you can't ever part with this as it will be featured in 20 years time in an ACG retrospective in some bass guitar magazine or other. A classic ACG MASTERPIECE.

[Sugden]

You spoil my bass rotten, I'll never leave it in a room with you or I'll come back and it will prefer you to me.

I dunno I think your bass will give it a run for its money I have to say I love all of the basses alan has finished to date which is abit weird for me as Im normaly quite pickey but I maybe bias. But I think yours does push the custom built envelope the top just yells top quality custom it looks like a bass worth easily twice as much.

Edited September 2, 2007 by Sugden

[steve-soar]

Go on the Carvin web site or the Pedulla and put in all of your custom options then press total. Make sure you are sitting down though And you will see who's bass looks like it's worth double

[eude]

[quote name='Sugden' post='52553' date='Aug 29 2007, 10:57 PM'][/quote]

I still can't get over how gorgeous this bass is!
You're one lucky guy Sugs, if only my Guinness related expenses wheren't so high, I'd be well on the way to getting a bass off Alan.

Can't wait to hear your impressions once you get your hands on it.

Cheers,
Eude