Your thoughts about this bass

[Eric Swanson]

Originally Posted by Bob Van Basten

What troubles me is that it has a bridge by Noël Warnier, he is a respected/experienced luthier over here (http://noel.warnier.free.fr/luthier/spip.php?article1).
I ask myself, why would somebody ask someone like him to cut him a (probably expensive) bridge for a crappy fake bass and on the other hand why would someone with his reputation get involved in this.

It also seems impossible for us to know how the bass, and the bridge job, was presented to M. Warnier. I would respectfully suggest that he may not be "involved" but was, rather, simply a professional hired to make and fit a bridge, with no involvement beyond that.

If a luthier fits a bridge on my bass, it isn't his/her responsibility to vouch for anything but the quality and fit of the bridge, IMHO.

[Bob Van Basten]

@ Eric: Your probably right, I quess life as a luthier isn't always easy too and somethime you just have to make a living , every job is a job, right.

@ Ken: The seller has send me the photo's of the label and I uploaded them on the flickr page. The label looks kinda suspicous even to an untrained eye like mine
On the original add, the seller did not metion age but this really does not look like a bass made in 1783 LOL. It's also strange that the printed part of the label has the same color als de written date.