Cuzzie

Depends exactly what you want - to strip a bass is every easy heat gun, sand paper powered or otherwise and a bit of elbow grease and patience. Depending on the wood you may need to grain fill which can be tinted or not and then it’s your choice, natural or colour. Within colour there is of course block metallic, sparkle, swirl, burst all achievable some more difficult than others. If you want a simple block colour finish of good quality, it is very easy to achieve yourself with a good quality nitro can - there is a lot you can do yourself, even the stripping to decrease cost if you don’t want to spray. Whats the worse that can happen if you spray wrong? You sand it back and go again!

Kids and animals have an absolute laser for these things for sure

I did have a rabbit joke planned, but it’s a Sunday and I am trying to rest from them as well.....

When they are out - all hell breaks loose! In a macabre way, in the first lockdown where I separated myself from the family in the living room, sleeping everything etc. as I was continuing to work, I moved all bass stuff down there and had it out - big amp and cab - it was brilliant - they would go out on their exercise and I would turn up to 12, no chance of stuff getting battered unless I had a wild nights sleep - I saw the benefit of Man Cave

See that’s a story, and hence fine by me and looks well good - the only thing I am slightly precious about is graphite and my 12 string, but even they have taken to odd uppercut - I am good thanks buddy 🤘🏾👊🏾

Me - I’ll just play whatever whenever and wherever-reverse use I will likely have the more expensive one in a case to stop the kids and animals bashing it and the less expensive one out in the wild, but then olay the more expensive one out - partly because it’s good and partly because it’s less hassle to pick and run with an already packed bass!

Mine was purely related to tools, no analogies! I suppose you could relate it to basses in that, you buy the same tools as they get the job done - you turn up with a P bass for job ‘x’ the punter recognises, the technician knows how to mix it etc

And because once you have the battery packs - staying with the same brand makes sense as you can have a battery on constant charge and just change in and out at will - I learnt that the hard way

Aye, but when you get second hand for about £900 as I did, it makes it stellar

For a nice classic 70s jazz, pure jazz sound - you will not go wrong with a Sandberg MarloweDK, especially the old shape - now that is a corking bass

Sorry Squire, autocorrect and all that

But I must add - like you - no reservation about taking any bass regardless of cost out and about

I was thinking more of that situation where you leave your very decent bass at home, but want something of sufficient quality to gig. I’ll put my parts bass any Mex Fender, and probably their lower range American ones, preferred my P to the Sandberg P I had. Sadowsky/Lakland/Xotic - can’t comment without a comparison(!) but of course probably not but that depends on the make up, I may not like their fitted electronics, but with a mod they may suit

Not cheapo Squires etc. But a parts bass using bits from Warmoth/Mighty Mite/All Parts etc will be very very decent

That’s a cracking bass. I threw maruysh........ in the mix, but I agree with mass customisation as more appropriate. Here’s one - for Boutique does it need that special hands on flavour? If a CNC machine hits it, does it discount it therefore making it less hand finished? A neck being Plek’d is different IMO

Agreed - I use the One10 for home and rehearsal space as it’s almost comedy small

For something to be boutique surely a cost shelf is the wrong metric. Isnt the point of boutique it has had more attention lavished upon it and is personalised and thus not off the shelf. For example for Fender, basically only Custom shop bases, or maybe a limited run like the sandblasted one and not parts thrown together is boutique. Something like Maryusch.......bases where you spec every part is maybe boutique despite a lower cost than a proper luthiered one. A bass which is mass produced, no matter the cost surely isn’t the same?

I can add the One10 will handle more watts than it says as long as the sound stays clean, if you use a crossover type distortion it’ll roll it off and you may need to change the EQ slightly depending on where you normally have it if you are used to the flatter Supertwin which will absolutely pump out with clarity what you throw at it. There you go - review complete!

Nothing close?

The neck will always impart the tone of the bass, notwithstanding the suggestions made above - you may only get so far. No right or wrong, just what’s right for you

Have you found one and can share with us a recording of it in action?

I’ll look tonight!

Money well spent - it’s a corker