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Fodera Club Part XIII

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Just got back from seeing the Victor Wooten Band at the Howard Theatre. Four bassists (doubling on horns, keys, and guitar), two drummers, and a vocalist. Simply amazing. Go catch this tour.

Justified in posting here because the stage was a flipping Fodera showroom. But you all knew that.
 
#243
I got to see some of the rehearsal bits and the new album. Sick stuff.

The reason for the showroom is that three of the four bassist are Fodera artists (Victor, Ant Wellington and Dave Welsch). Bailey is the hold-out :D

And little did you know that Bailey plays 'bone and Dave plays trumpet. Some foreshadowing:

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nostatic said:
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The reason for the showroom is that three of the four bassist are Fodera artists (Victor, Ant Wellington and Dave Welsch). Bailey is the hold-out :D
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It's funny but it seems like Steve will play anything but a Fodera. Warwick now? Really?
 
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cnltb said:
It says that it has a three way toggle switch...
What does that do and where is it?
And...how heavy is it?
:)
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Actually, the three way toggle switch was not installed. After talking to Jason and Vinny, I decided not to do it. It would have switched between dual coil and each of the single coils.

As far as weight goes, it's just under 11 pounds.
 
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wrp said:
Actually, the three way toggle switch was not installed. After talking to Jason and Vinny, I decided not to do it. It would have switched between dual coil and each of the single coils.

As far as weight goes, it's just under 11 pounds.
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Thanks!

So it is completely hollow?
Alder is not a 'conventional' wood for the sides of instruments such as this.
How does it hold up?
Are the sides supportedinternally, as is commonly done on more conventional acoustic instruments?
 
#255
cnltb said:
That'd be my guess as well.
I also wonder how oak sounds and behaves as a neck wood.
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Oak is a great neck wood. It's very stable and tends the emphasize the fundamental of every note on the fingerboard, which translates into tight, deep low end response.

I was sold on the oak neck after trying out Michael Wilcox's oak necked Emperor II Elite fretless 6. I believe there are now three oak neck Foderas, the third and earliest being one of Lincoln Goines' bass.
 
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steubig said:
i would assume so.

maybe he has the j berlin thing of cheaper mass-made instruments that his students can buy? (not a stated opinion that i know of, just my opinion)
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J. Berlin however is quite a big name on bass.
And and he doesn't seem to switch gear quite as often as
steve bailey seems to.
Plus,I have no idea how much a warwick signature model ( if there is/will be one) will cost-but they sometimes do charge quite a bit for their instruments.


Just guessing, of course:).
 
#258
I just want to give big probs to Jason !!!

I have looked over my emails since I've ordered my Bass last september and we have written around 96 emails since that date...

He has been extremly helpfull and has always a good idea when it comes to select the woods to achieve the sound that you have in mind.

We should all be very thankfull that he has had the nice idea (instead of writing the Fodera book at that time :D) to join the company as a partner and brought it back to life :)

But I would also love to read the book someday too ;):D
 
#259
Steve hooked up with Warwick at MusikMesse last fall. iirc he was with Fender before that, but Fender has evidently screwed *a lot* of their endorsers. And some of them legends. So it doesn't surprise me to see him with Warwick. Warwick also supports Victors camps so I have to give props to them for that as well.
 
#260
Here in germany Warwicks reputation is very very bad.

Some years ago they got very bad press and critics because of the cruel treatments of their factory workers.

Also their leader H.P. W. has the public reputation to be very power-hungry. You here that everywhere - from people who have worked there, from salesmen in the stores, etc...

Warwick wants to adorn theirselfes with the "big" US bassplayers names - that's why they throw out many basses for free and make everyone a signature Bass ;) (like Bootsy, Larry Graham, etc.)

I can imagine that it is very charming for the US bassplayers to be treated that nice but here most of the people that I know do laugh about Warwicks try to be "hip" :)


also their prices are insane - they buy very big loads of wood to keep the costs very low but charge prices like the basses would have been made by hand and by one of the best luthiers in the world. There is nothing made by hand - even in their "Custom-Shop" .... all is done by the holy CNC
 
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