!!! WITHDRAWN !!! FODERA N.Y.C. Empire Bass 5 strings with pickups in 70's Fender Jazz Bass position
£2450
Etalle, South Belgium

Hellzero · June 2, 2019

Thinning down the herd, so selling the basses I don't use... Or trade for a 6 strings (fretless) bass of similar value...

FODERA N.Y.C. Empire Bass 5 strings with pickups in 70's Fender Jazz Bass position. A 70's Fender Jazz Bass 5 strings on steroids !!!

Asking price including shipping fully insured with tracking number to your place in these European countries (ask for other countries) : Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France (excluding French overseas departments and territories), Germany, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Monaco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and United Kingdom : £2450 GBP !!!

The specifications :

35" scale, yes 35 inches.

21 positions.

1.5 mm action under the G string up to 2 mm under the B string at 12th position.

19 mm strings spacing at the original Hipshot bridge.

10 mm strings spacing at the brass nut.

1 single action truss rod.

Hipshot tuners.

Three-pieces flamed maple bolt-on neck with rosewood fingerboard and headstock flamed maple veneer.

Two-pieces swamp ash body with book matched quilted maple top.

2 Fodera/Seymour Duncan custom pickups in 70's Fender Jazz Bass position (39 centimetres away from the 12th fret for the bridge pickup center, which is the exact 70's Fender Jazz Bass bridge pickup position converted to a 35 inches scale) coupled to a 2 bands 90's Sadowsky preamp with volume (push-pull for active/passive), blend, stacked boost only bass/treble and tone. The original non reliable pseudo Pope preamp (known fact) has been changed by a previous owner for this much better sounding Sadowsky original preamp.

Weight is 4.5 kilos.

Delivered in Hiscox hard case with a new set of Dunlop Straplok gold flush mount.

Fitted with new D'Addario NYXL 45130 strings (045 - 065 - 080 - 100 -130) and set up professionally.

Light gloss finish.

Assembled by Vinny Fodera and Joey Lauricella in 1997 (see neck pocket initials and date hand pencilled with NYC punched). Serial number is 09197-5 which means it's the 91st N.Y.C. made, it's been finished in 1997 and it's a 5 strings.

Gold hardware.

70's Fender Jazz Bass 5 strings on steroids.

Official price was around $4000 USD (around £3200 GBP) at the time in the USA (just add all import duties to figure out the real higher tag price)... And good luck to find one early bird today in this condition.

All original (without butterfly, like all early models), except for the 90's Sadowsky preamp !!!

Here is all the information you need to understand that these early N.Y.C. basses were assembled and finished in the USA (here, for this very N.Y.C., by the two guys behind Fodera basses) with necks and bodies handcrafted in Japan with original Fodera woods (in batches of 6 pieces, so this one is out of the 15th batch) : https://www.bassplayer.com/gear/fodera-nyc-5-and-nyc-4

The photos with and without flash to see the real condition, which shows only some little wear with the usual marks of time, like the mandatory buckle marks at the back :biggrin: :