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Fodera Club Part IV

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#823
To those who are happy with a Fender bass and consider paying anything north of $1,000 foolish, that's OK. For those of us who see the "value" in owning a Fodera, that's OK too.

I've played just about every bass out there. It took just 5 minutes to know I had found the holy grail of instruments with a Fodera.

A little sarcasm adds a some spice to the forum. To quote one of the lyrics on VW's great CD track Words of Wisdom, "let's get along".

Don't judge me by the bass I play, the car I drive or the bicyle I ride. Aspire to be a good person. If you have met Victor or Jason in person, you will know exactly what I mean.
 
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#825
TheSiberian said:
Sorry, guys I never intended to offend anyone.
But unfortunately I did, so sorry again specialy to ThePontif.
And of course I have Foderas (5 in fact) and this is the reason I watch this thread.
But nevertheless they will not make me a better player just because they are expensive.

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It's all good...don't worry about it. The bass certainly doesn't make the player. I just haven't played another bass that disappears into my hands the way a Fodera does.

Honestly, though....Fodera does not practice a policy of, "we charge a lot because we can". I know this for a fact. They have always been reluctant to raise prices even when they've known people would pay them. They're just expensive to their core. In any event, for me they are the best without question.
 
#827
What happened to the new website that was mentioned earlier this year. I thought the ETA was around July/August. As you may notice, I'm chomping on the bit for the new site. :bassist:
 
#831
No top wood decided yet. I'll wait until the bass enters production, but if you have any suggestions, send em my way!

I went with 70s spacing. 22 frets to give me little more room, and since I almost never use frets 23-24, especially since I tune eadgc. As for a new tonal system... You could probably figure it out and even play it! Maybe frets that you can adjust the position of by a clever turnkey mechanism? Heh heh.
 
#834
Great specs. I like the small frets too. With maple boards, I like walnut tops. Or, if it's a figured maple board, you could go with more maple. Of course, many tops would look great, but these were the first two that popped into my head.
 
#836
climb said:
No top wood decided yet. I'll wait until the bass enters production, but if you have any suggestions, send em my way!
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So many woods look good with a maple fingerboard,... I would probably go with a contrasting darker wood though. Like koa or walnut. But you see a lot of walnut around. Ziricote is not as common and it looks great with maple (partiularly birdseye).

Has Fodera ever use Ziricote? If so does anybody have any pics?
 
#838
Angus said:
You might be disappointed. Titanium may be stiffer (and I say may because only some formulations are stiffer than brass) and has a high strength/weight ratio (which means nothing for a bridge), but it also is the rubber band of metals- it soaks up vibrations at various frequencies substantially more than brass.

I'm not convinced, and I've played an AJ with a titanium bridge in Japan. I think a lot of it is the appeal of the exotic.
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It would be interesting to hear more about the theories behind why titanium would soak vibrations more than other metals, and why it would be called the rubber band of metals.

Having worked a lot with titanium in recent years, that is not my experience. The ductility of Titanium (unless using higher strength grades) is close to that of steel, so it is neither brittle nor rubbery.

As I understand it the sound properties are to a large extent affected by three main properties, the elastic modulus (Young's modulus, E, we can call this the "stiffness"), the Shear modulus (G), and the density. Although the strength can vary considerably between different alloys, these properties remain rather constant within each material class.
The speed of sound in a metal depends on E and G divided by the density (longitudinal and shear waves). The resonance frequency is also related to E and G.
I have made a simple comparison below between Steel, Brass and Titanium, just to higlight some differences between the classes of materials.

Ti-Brass-Steelcomparison.jpg


Looking at this data; besides the fact that a Titanium bridge of the same design weighs only half compared to a brass or steel bridge, the resonance frequencies are expected to be similar to that of brass, while the speed of sound is more like that of steel.
Of course, the reality is more complex than this (if starting to take into account the crystal structure, directional dependencies etc.), but the above could indicate that Titanium has some special sonic properties.
 
#839
Yes, the original launch date was August...wow, did I blow that one!! LOL. We are shooting for go-live this coming week. Realistically it may slip another week later than that but we are really close. Since we have a small staff, the website work gets squeezed in between all of the other work that we have to get done.

One of the biggies (and we thought a more pressing one) has been better organization of the shop's production schedule, materials and resources. This has been a HUGE focus for all of us and has occupied a lot of our waking hours. The upside? New order delivery times are now down to 18-20 months. When we began our partnership just over one year ago (10/14/10 was our one year anniversary) we were quoting 24-28 months...

Our long term goal is to get this number to consistently be between 12 and 18 months...
 
#840
Just Thumpin' said:
Yes, the original launch date was August...wow, did I blow that one!! LOL. We are shooting for go-live this coming week. Realistically it may slip another week later than that but we are really close. Since we have a small staff, the website work gets squeezed in between all of the other work that we have to get done.

One of the biggies (and we thought a more pressing one) has been better organization of the shop's production schedule, materials and resources. This has been a HUGE focus for all of us and has occupied a lot of our waking hours. The upside? New order delivery times are now down to 18-20 months. When we began our partnership just over one year ago (10/14/10 was our one year anniversary) we were quoting 24-28 months...

Our long term goal is to get this number to consistently be between 12 and 18 months...
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Wonderful job! Very impressive in such a short time.
 
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