SOLD Fodera NYC Empire BCC 5th Anniversary Holly Top Mint

This is a beautiful Fodera special edition commissioned for the 5th anniversary of Bass Club Chicago. It has a cathedral-cut one-piece 34”-scale maple neck with 21 frets and 1.5” nut width. Body is swamp ash with a holly top and clear finish. It has EMG pickups and a Mike Pope 3-band, 18V preamp. Controls are: Master vol/Passive tone stack, Blend, Bass/Treble boost/cut stack and Mid boost/cut. Toggle is for active/passive. It is in mint condition (note that the apparent marks on the holly top are natural wood grain and the 'bubbles' on the electronics cover are its protective plastic). The bass weighs 9 lbs., 0 oz. It comes in the original BCC 5th Anniversary gig bag. Free shipping to CONUS. No trade interests at the moment.

 

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Thanks for the appreciation! I applaud your using more than the usual senses of sight and sound to evaluate this bass. I can assure you that it smells every bit as good as it feels. I'm not sure that gold hardware would taste right, though.

 

I definitely agree...

 

Please read the listing above. The truth is out there...

 

Current center-to-center string spacing is: 18 mm at neck p/u, 19 mm at bridge p/u and 19.7 mm at bridge.

I think the minimums would be: 17 mm at neck p/u, 18 mm at bridge p/u and 18.7 mm at the bridge (the inner walls of the 1st and 4th string saddles are 54 mm apart).

 

Interesting question. I have searched all over TB and other resources, but still not found definitive numbers for 60's vs. 70's pickup spacing.

On the Fodera, the central line of the bridge pickup is 31-7/8" from the center of the nut and about 2-1/4" from the center of the A-D bridge saddles. The neck p/u is about 4" from the bridge p/u; their centers are 3-7/8" apart.

These numbers suggest that the pickups are closer to 70's spacing than 60's spacing, from what I could find.

 

Then they are 70's spacing. I didn't measure that way, but can back-calculate as: (3.875-0.75) x 2.54 = 7.93 cm, where 0.75 is the width of a J pickup.