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Fodera Club Part XXV

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#301
Good point, but more labour + extra parts = additional costs. It's a great option for those who want or need to travel extensively with their guitars and don't want them going into the hold. Certainly an option I'd go for in a bolt-on neck.

cnltb said:
Why not make it standard in the first place?
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Just Thumpin' said:
For the past two years (since the release of the E5S), Tom has been playing 70's spaced Fodera Dual Coils. As a matter of fact, his long-time signature bass with the closely spaced, bridge-centric dual coils has been here in the shop since October of 2011. Tom has been playing an E5S exclusively since then.

He did, however, want to get back to the Emperor II body shape again and his beloved Ebony FB...but in a bolt-on -- so that he could take the instrument apart for his extensive travels on airplanes.

For Tom's TKS we have added metal inserts into the body so that we could use machine screws (rather than wood screws) to attach the neck so that it can be removed a virtually limitless number of times without stripping the holes. This will not be "standard" on the TKS, but we are calling it the "Traveler Option" and will make it available to others too.

Regards,

Jason
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#302
Sorry, I deleted my first reply. Yeah, it might be a simple procedure and the parts needed may be few, but I doubt Fodera have threaded inserts and metal screws in bulk; it's not a frequent request.

LugzyDee said:
Good point, but more labour + extra parts = additional costs. It's a great option for those who want or need to travel extensively with their guitars and don't want them going into the hold. Certainly an option I'd go for in a bolt-on neck.
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cnltb said:
Metal inserts adding to the cost????
Aren't those things to be had for literally pennies, and pushing them through the body is a matter of seconds, not really adding to the time needed to build such an instrument either that's my outside view anyways.
So, minimal up in cost and time.
I am sure there must be more to it.
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#306
LoL..:) I listen to some radio in the evenings and I honestly can't tell half the time what brand o' bass is being played. Funny, but after a minute or so, I might spot the player but hardly the guitar. In the 80's you could tell sometimes straight off the bat an Alembic, Fender Jazz, Precision etc, but nowadays there's alot of builders doing very Fender like instruments and there's so much variety now, I'd have a hard time singleing out a signature bass sound.

cnltb said:
They obviously do get a lot of stuff right!
But...name a single instrument that does not allow one to hear the player first. ;)
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#308
I like that the TK standard is 34" scale and not 35".

Also 17.5mm spacing on the 6 makes sense in appealing to the most amount of customers. 19mm spacing would be very large. This is definitely something I'd be interested in!

Nice new additions to the standard family! I think you've got all the bases covered - 4 string, 5 string, 6 string; 4 string fretless, 5 string fretless; different body/fb options; and finally a Wooten YY, TK bass, and MG neck-through. Can't think of anything else that would be needed or requested enough to build batches of.

I need to start saving for that 6-string standard...
 
#311
Wow, these new Standards really are top-notch. I honestly never thought you guys would do bolt-on single cut, and honestly I always wished you didn't because every one I've seen looks like a Frankenstein monster at the back (except Fodera's!) Will you guys have the Emperor 6 to demo at the shop? I've been wanting to try a 6-string with 17.5 mm spacing and the ES6 looks very promising.
 
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LugzyDee said:
In the 80's you could tell sometimes straight off the bat an Alembic, Fender Jazz, Precision etc, but nowadays there's alot of builders doing very Fender like instruments and there's so much variety now, I'd have a hard time singleing out a signature bass sound.
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^^^^^ this. (70s too)

i used to be able to nail it two notes in.

and don't forget all the studio magic and preamp "magic" that goes into the bass sound these days.
 
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Just Thumpin' said:
Sadly I am going to miss all of you at this year's NAMM Show. I just made the decision to stay home and tend to things on the home front. My mother-in-law has been fighting Melanoma valiantly for the past three years but according to her hospice nurse is in her final days.



I had the good fortune of seeing her this past Thursday. She is an amazing woman and one of the reasons that my wife Deborah is the most amazing woman I know. It's one of those times when I wish that I could clone myself and be in two places at once.



Joey, Ken, Phil and Laura will be there to hold down the fort.



Kindest regards,



Jason
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Totally understand J, didn't follow the thread these days. My prayers are with you and your family! See you soon in next NAMM and perhaps I would place a NYC trip in the coming April. Take care..
 
#320
The difference is largely aesthetic.

Although we have not been asked to build one yet, I imagine we would say "yes" to a Custom EII Bolt-on...

Regards,

J

LeonD said:
Other than aesthetics, are there any advantages to a single cut bolt-on?

And will the single cut bolt-on be carried over to the custom basses?
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