I agree. The specialty or custom shops I have worked in have a fairly high degree of specialization; most mechanics do a handful of the relevant manufacturing operations; as you say, there is no single person making the product, start to finish. Rather it is the plant, as an entity. Craftspeople they were; of various and unknown skill levels.
Semantics aside, bless both you and Arnold Schnitzer for improving these instruments so much. You have both done something wonderful for those basses, their owners, and their listeners.
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