FS FODERA Monarch 5 Deluxe Near Mint 2006 Built!!!!!!!!!!!!

portraitoftracy · #1 05-12-2010, 10:26 AM

I keep going back and forth with selling this bass, as usual

The best playing and sounding Fodera I've owned, but I just want a nice 4 string jazz bass. I'm playing mainly upright (4 string) and when I switch to the 5 string electric I occasionally biff while reading charts.

Excellent condition, barely any wear
mahagony body
flame maple top and headstock
maple neck
indian rosewood board with tulip inlays
emg PJ pickups under soapbar casings
pope pre
35 inch scale
10 lbs
OHSC

According to Jason at Fodera these are the same pickups in Victor Wooten's five string which kill on this bass.
Pics at this link

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$5,800 shipped cashiers check or echeck paypal

Juggernaught · #2 05-12-2010, 10:31 AM

If this was Alder you would have PM

portraitoftracy · #3 05-12-2010, 10:37 AM

If it were alder I never would have owned it

and the tone would suffer accordingly, my personal preference

Juggernaught · #4 05-12-2010, 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by portraitoftracy

If it were alder I never would have owned it

and the tone would suffer accordingly, my personal preference

Whhhaaaaa???!!! Alder rules! You've done it now buddy.

EMG PJ under soapbar casings? Interesting, but I must ask: why?

portraitoftracy · #5 05-12-2010, 11:00 AM

Ask Victor, wait, better yet ask Jason at Fodera, will Jason chime in for us please?

Just Thumpin' · #6 05-12-2010, 12:28 PM

The Neck PUP is designed to sound like a 5-string P PUP and the Bridge PUP like a 5-string J-PUP. Essentially this is a 5-string version of a Monarch Deluxe with EMG P-J PUPS...

Why? When it was originally built, I would imagine the person for whom we were building it wanted the P-J sound in a 5-string...

Quote:

Originally Posted by portraitoftracy

Ask Victor, wait, better yet ask Jason at Fodera, will Jason chime in for us please?

**Archie Jr.** · #7 05-12-2010, 07:34 PM

t0t0m · #8 05-12-2010, 09:34 PM

SWEEEEEETTTTT...

portraitoftracy · #9 05-13-2010, 10:33 AM

SOLD, pending echeck clearing

ctufankjian · #10 07-09-2010, 07:04 PM

Will someone lock this sucker up! I've been looking around for one of these, and stumble over this thread regularly... your killing me here.

portraitoftracy · #11 07-09-2010, 08:08 PM

Wish I didn't sell her

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