Fodera Club Part III

[Bryan R. Tyler]

This is a continuation of the following thread:
http://talkbass.com/forum/showthread.php?t=580356

 

[Wilbyman]

Firsts. LOL.

 

[ctufankjian]

SWEET!!!

I'm in pics later!!!

 

[rb1]

Here's a recent picture of my VW Monarch 4:

I like this one so much that I can't hardly bear to play any of my other instruments.

 

[Garey]

I've had my first experience with the newer, tuned Fodera....and things are certainly for the better! I was having a fret issue, as well as some cosmetic requests....and was holding off for a couple years because of no gaurantee when I would see my bass again! Well....Jason assured me it would be no longer than 4 weeks in the shop, and they came in a week early! Some serious fret re-setting, level and polish, replaced bridge, matching dual coil covers - truss cover - and back plate, updated my already new version of the pope preamp, and the absolute lowest action EVER! I couldn't have asked for better service, better communication, or a better job! Thanks again!

I'll get some updated pics, but here she is before she left the shop....

Aloha, Garey

 

[chris.gotfunk]

I've had my first experience with the newer, tuned Fodera....and things are certainly for the better! I was having a fret issue, as well as some cosmetic requests....and was holding off for a couple years because of no gaurantee when I would see my bass again! Well....Jason assured me it would be no longer than 4 weeks in the shop, and they came in a week early! Some serious fret re-setting, level and polish, replaced bridge, matching dual coil covers - truss cover - and back plate, updated my already new version of the pope preamp, and the absolute lowest action EVER! I couldn't have asked for better service, better communication, or a better job! Thanks again!

I'll get some updated pics, but here she is before she left the shop....

Aloha, Garey

Man, that thing is gorgeous!!!!

 

[harrybosch]

I need to get another Fodera.

 

[Christian Houmann]

Here is my first Fodera

Don't own that anymore! Great bass

Here is the one play now

 

[black.rose1402]

for the pleasure, here are my foderas

 

[thndrstk6]

I love that tulip topped imperial.

 

[jonno1707]

My Emp 6 ser 1 Circa July 92...

 

[Just Thumpin']

Of the Foderas that I own, these are the two most important to me...

The Koa topped one that Joey is holding is the first Fodera that I purchased. Ordered in 2004 and delivered in 2007 with a nut height that was too high for my playing style. Had that nut been lower, I never would have visited the shop and might have never met Joey and Vinny!

The Buckeye topped one was completed last year around this time and I was in the shop weekly doing research on a book about Fodera (which hopefully I will finish someday) as it was being built. I got to watch this bass being brought to life over four months as Joey, Vinny and I started moving what was already a great friendship towards discussions about what has become a partnership. While Vinny was carving the neck on this Monarch I asked him and Joey an interview question for the book that started the whole discussion a few months down the road about our partnership...

"What happens to Fodera when you and Joey decide that you either no longer want to, or cannot, continue building instruments?"

BTW, in case you haven't already guessed, I am the guy in the middle of the photo...

 

[Wilbyman]

I need to get another Fodera.

 

[black.rose1402]

Of the Foderas that I own, these are the two most important to me...

The Koa topped one that Joey is holding is the first Fodera that I purchased. Ordered in 2004 and delivered in 2007 with a nut height that was too high for my playing style. Had that nut been lower, I never would have visited the shop and might have never met Joey and Vinny!
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I will try tyo come to new york an to get an apointment to have the nut of my imperial lowered, I can't get it like my monarch (it's low, but not enough) and something else that is private.

and i will bring my monarch for a check up (it was completed on 26th september 2003, so now's the time)

 

[emjazz]

Ha, ha! Sucka.......just email Jason and get it started!

 

[Wilbyman]

No, I was saying "Help" for Harry. As the saying goes "I'm good"

 

[narud]

No, I was saying "Help" for Scott/Harry.

wait a minute........i thought britt's handles were hard to keep track of

 

[Wilbyman]

wait a minute........i thought britt's handles were hard to keep track of

I didn't say nuffin.

 

[narud]

I didn't say nuffin.

ha, at least now if he shows up here with another fodera i can tell him he's trippin'. how about me buying my fretless from him and then me not knowing his handle and him talking to me not letting me know he was the one who sold it to me while we were posting about f basses.

 

[narud]

so whats up with beez selling this bass?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Fodera-Beezelit...QQcmdZViewItemQQptZGuitar?hash=item35a5ecce69
and why is there no more of this wood anywhere? was there like one tree in existence or something?