To Cut, or Not to Cut? (TB Save)

[Ken Smith]

Member Comment (actually, it's from Arnold, lol); Real world: A bass must be playable to have value as an instrument. An unplayable bass is essentially worthless. Do what you must to make it a playable (and therefore valuable) bass. Most of the top-tier basses in the world today were cut down at one point, and their value is intact. Witness the ex-Homer Mensch Gofriller, which would have caused a bidding war in the $200,000+ range, had it not ended up with his favored student.

Yup, my point exactly. By the way, that Bass of Homer still went for close to the 200k mark even though it WAS his student. It was NOT given to him for free at all. Maybe you can say, he got the Bass less the commission had it been publically sold. Homers' Gagliano is for sale and it was Cut too as well. That is going for 200k. By the way, Biase IS the one that cut Homers' Gofriller. Paul has a similar near identical one at the shop un-cut for comparison. Even the Scrolls match not to mention the wood. On the Gagliano, it's cut all around upper and lower from what I understand. I don't know who cut the Gagliano or when but I figure if Paul can cut a Gofriller for Homer, then my Bass is just a walk in the park.