Percy Jones fans, get in quick. Or not. Fodera, hmmmm

[Clarky]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/124919206170?hash=item1d15c3d11a:g:OPkAAOSworBhTxs8

 

Particularly unusual touch is the thumb rest UNDER the strings

 

 

Edited March 27, 2022 by Clarky

[Delberthot]

That's quite possibly the most hideous bass I've ever seen.

[rushbo]

If you show a six year old a picture of a P bass for ten seconds, then give them a crayon and ask them to draw what they have seen from memory, you'd get a design like this. 

 

I'm sure someone loves this, but that someone ain't me. 

[binky_bass]

A Fletress too apparently... 🤔

[NikNik]

16 hours ago, Delberthot said:

That's quite possibly the most hideous bass I've ever seen.

It's vile!!

[Clarky]

I also suspect the hands of Vinnie Fodera never went near any of that bass. If Fodera saw that on eBay I bet they would demand it be taken down, if only as its damaging to the brand

[wateroftyne]

I believe that's one of Finnie Vodera's best creations.

[Clarky]

I remain dumbfounded by the thumb rest below the strings. The prior owner must have had a very particular and unusual style of playing. Or never played the low B string

[binky_bass]

1 hour ago, Clarky said:

I remain dumbfounded by the thumb rest below the strings. The prior owner must have had a very particular and unusual style of playing. Or never played the low B string

I'd guess that they occasionally played it without the B string attached. Either way, it needs burning.

[Bunion]

1 hour ago, Clarky said:

I also suspect the hands of Vinnie Fodera never went near any of that bass.

Maybe it was his junior school woodwork exam… 

[Clarky]

Or maybe his feet

[prowla]

It's a no from me...

[Jean-Luc Pickguard]

Didn't this bass feature on the cover of Gentle Giant's 1971 album acquiring the taste?

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acquiring_the_Taste#/media/File:Acquiring_the_Taste_front_cover.jpg

 

[NikNik]

I am convinced I've seen this thing, waaay in the past, but not associated with PJ.

[tauzero]

Surely it's the Fodera Stevie Wonder?

[fleabag]

Lordy knows what that abomination is but Jones played a Fodera Monarch, not that monstrosity.  Even so, he wasnt really known for Foderas,  just Wals and Ibanezezzzezezzs.

He briefly played a Gretsch which he filed some of the frets down to make a half fretless.  Used on one one track, Running on 3,  on the first album. He then switched to a fretless Precision for a while before the Wal and then Ibanez