Mrbigstuff

Apparently the term comes from French, meaning “small shop”. In the UK a small company has less than 50 employees and less than £10 mil turnover.

To concur with Misdee, I’d say an unusual design made in small numbers. Similar to the term used for hotels really. Fodera don’t make anywhere near the level of a mass produced manufacturer.

Only 3 months of fraud? Surely they have a lot more evidence than that!

Please expand? I was just going to post a topic to say I’ve never seen a better selection of boutique and vintage basses available in the UK. It’s incredible right now

I think you’ve been mis-sold a jazz elite 😉

Different basses hum worse than others. I had an 80’s Tokai which had it really bad even when going straight into a DI.

Bad sound or playing?

They don’t seem particularly special when they were new but I guess the characteristics of the nitro finish come about with age.

Bass bros have a suhr jazz bass. Quite uncommon on these shores.

Sorry, didn’t think I needed to specify. They can be professional teachers or whatever you want to call YouTubers, but in these video titles they’re labelled as professional musicians or bass players.

Was going to reply to add to this the obvious reasons why these platforms are not being regulated as much as they should but think it’s going down the politics rabbit hole which will end up with the thread locked. Luckily we can still enjoy watching SBL invite other YouTubers onto their channel for challengers and have the cheek to call them professionals!

Yet sadly I’ve read anecdotes indicating for many years, across many industries, people did.

Calling it out just gets the response of being woke. Abhorrent behaviour and values have been normalised and justified by far right influencers, backed by some of the richest people in the world. My gf has one and I can tell you that anyone who has that little pride in themselves does not clean the car interior well 😂

Like anything, if you want to get on with people you seemingly need to allow them to have opinions and they should be able to accept if you agree or disagree too. Having said that, if the music becomes politically portrayed that way then no way!

It’s no surprise that Ian seems to land the chair for the hottest new shows in town. It’s great for us that we get to see some BTS.

The old school approach is better. Only two words needed for your endearing bad mates:

Yeh was going to say it looks Japanese

I doubt many at all. A bass designed to fit one man’s extremely niche requirements, and its ugly as sin on top of that! Hopefully they’re made to order.

Prize equivalent is 1 set of EB Pino flatwound strings

Keep it, it’s time may come. I had similar with my P bass that was largely untouched for nearly a decade but now is used regularly.

It sounds nice though. I do like the demos AB has on his site.

Yes but if it’s deemed stolen material they don’t have the right to give you that copyright. Much like if you bought a stolen bass from a thief, you lose the bass and money.

Playing a 30 min set with jamiroquai at a French Riviera or Amalfi Coast private pool party with unlimited food and drink included, and unlimited dips in the pool. I would probably do it for free but a hefty cheque would also be nice.

I had a 2000 US DLX Jazz and it was fine with the string thru bridge, but no better than my current Sire. I thought it was 18mm though.

£280 at the bass gallery according to their web page. Not sure I would trust anyone else.