I think you should not hesitate and buy that vf5pj then trade it to me instantly for my Nordy vj5...just sayin'. 
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I don’t know if he’s on here, but Jeffrey Tan is a great bass player I met in our FBass Facebook group. I’ve been obsessing over his VF5-PJ he acquired from Karel Honasan. Its a beautiful bass and sounds fantastic. Very interested because of Jimmy Coppolo’s pups which were installed. Anyone have them in your F? I’m tempted to order the same bass verbatim.
And speaking of the great Jimmy Coppolo.. Does anyone besides me have a NY Model BN5 ? I found the post talking about them from 2003 but didn’t want to resurrect that zombie thread.
No. He used to run a shop in NYC. He ordered Fbasses with a few specs: metallic paint, reverse head stock shape, and metal knobs. It was before he was a “master builder”.
I have one. It also has vintage (smaller fretwire) and hipshot UL tuners were on the NY model. The neck shape is slightly different (more comfy imo).
I really like the neck shape on my NY. Mine has Gotoh tuners and the headstock is natural, not painted. Also, has wood knobs.
Jimmy had the best shop in NYC back when that sort of thing existed. He got out before it all went to hell. I played the first few of his AC Basses before he moved out west. Not Our AC
they were great Basses and one was for John Taylor from Duran Duran.
I really like the neck shape on my NY. Mine has Gotoh tuners and the headstock is natural, not painted. Also, has wood knobs.
Jimmy had the best shop in NYC back when that sort of thing existed. He got out before it all went to hell. I played the first few of his AC Basses before he moved out west. Not Our AC
they were great Basses and one was for John Taylor from Duran Duran.
Nice, I know there were like 5 or so of the NYC f-basses...black, silver, gold, Sherwood green and I think an ice blue metallic.
Mine had slightly different specs but I have two of the f-basses from Jimmy's store back then.
Mine had slightly different specs but I have two of the f-basses from Jimmy's store back then.
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If you guys with NYCs would be so kind to share some pics, it would be greatly appreciated.
Here are a few pics of mine. Most recent was having black dot inlays installed.
Is the fiery one an NYC as well? Don't think I've seen a headstock like that before on an Fbass
that bass looks like a GFC
It is an F-bass but from the "GFC" (George Furlanetto Custom) run which was like a handful or so. I have two of them. One is currently being refinished in two tone burst and the other is the one you see in the pic (autumnburst).
I would have to check my autumnburst headstock but I'm pretty sure both are 2001.
Flatter neck profile than the BN-s but still 34.5" scale, 70's pickup placement, the body shape obviously different but same preamp as BN models.
Killer basses!
Flatter neck profile than the BN-s but still 34.5" scale, 70's pickup placement, the body shape obviously different but same preamp as BN models.
Killer basses!
