Single Cut Basses

[tauzero]

7 hours ago, LeftyJ said:

SCD:

 

 

Snoopy:

 

 

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[Gizmo]

32 minutes ago, tauzero said:

 

Snoopy:

 

 

😁

 

 

This one even has an eye!

 

 

 

[Misdee]

Fodera didn't invent the single it bass, but they did popularise them. The Emperor single cut came out in 1989, and Anthony Jackson was one of the first players to embrace the single cut aesthetic. Fodera bring the totemic bass builders they are, single cuts became a trend, particularly for "advanced-level" bass players. Playing a single cut has become a bit of a statement of identity for a certain strata of bass players.

 

My own personal take on them is, in most cases, "Crikey, this thing weighs a ton, it's like playing my front door with strings on, no wonder Anthony Jackson looks so miserable most of the time!"

 

To me it's mostly a lot of lutherie looking for a reason to justify itself. I'm sure in certain instances a singlecut is a valid part of a design, but there's plenty of basses on the market that are single cuts just for the sake of having that option available for potential customers.

 

If Fodera were looking to solve specific issues and improve tone and found a singlecut design achieved those goals, fair enough. However, lots of other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon, made a singlecut and tried to make out that they were solving a problem by doing so, despite the reality being that most bass players were completely unaware of and untroubled by the problems that were being solved for them by the singlecut design.

Edited 1 hour ago by Misdee

[ead]

I had one of these for a while, ticking both the headless and single cut boxes.  32" scale very comfy and got a lot of comments from peeps in the audience when I used to gig it.  ACG Border Reiver.

 

Edited 1 hour ago by ead