Help me get information about Fine Guitar

[SegaTronchy]

Hi, lately i find in my area on facebok marketplace a Fine Jazz Bass. I never see this brand and i didn't find any information on the internet. Strange, the bass looks fine, is beautiful red. So i ask to google ai studio. It said Fine Guitars: High-quality, handcrafted Japanese basses and guitars. Premium materials, excellent craftsmanship, often classic designs. Highly regarded instruments. Did you agree? anyone ever heard something?

 

[ardgedee]

Google AI is providing the definition of the word "fine" as it would be used to describe guitars. It did not answer your question.

 

[SegaTronchy]

Google AI is providing the definition of the word "fine" as it would be used to describe guitars. It did not answer your question.

I read some arrogance in your words

 

[ardgedee]

I read some arrogance in your words

I would need better proof of that than text generated by "AI", which is frequently incorrect.

I won't claim he doesn't exist or that the information is wrong, but I will say that there is absolutely no relevant information about Fine Guitars or anybody named Tsuyoshi Sugito on the English language internet.

 

[Winslow]

I read some arrogance in your words

If I may expand on what @ardgedee was saying, the "AI" text you received seems to be simply plugging the phrase "Fine Guitars" into a "blank" of very generic descriptions, rather than referring to a specific line of instruments that can be found by other means ("manual" searches, etc.). "AI" texts, of all kinds, have frequently been found to be little more than guess-work, and often only return results that seem positive (basically telling users "what they want to hear"), rather than offering up concrete and verifiable facts.

As @ardgedee noted, I am also unable to find anything specific about the individual "named" by the "AI" text, nor have I been able to locate any information about a "Fine" brand in any lists of Japanese, Korean, or Indonesian guitar makers. Unfortunately, "Fine guitars" is such a vague and general phrase, it comes up in results for almost every vendor, luthier, or auction house as a generic term, but not as a specific brand.

Now, TB is a funny place; It's entirely possible someone may pop in here with some arcane knowledge of that bass or brand, but it's going to take a very particular human to tell you anything reliable. As for the "AI" text you were given, I would have to agree with @ardgedee that the "A" meaning "artificial" is the most likely descriptor of the "results" it served up.

In any event, good luck in your hunt!

 

[Sharko]

They’re fine

 

[ardgedee]

To be clear, I spent some time in a couple search engines, plugging in terms from the text OP screenshotted.

"Tsuyoshi Sugito" is a plausible-sounding Japanese name but there's absolutely nothing findable through Google or DuckDuckGo. And yes I did also search for "Sugito Tsuyoshi" as well, given that the Japanese write family name before personal name. I found one reference on a Slovenian website to a manga character named "Sugito Tsuyoshi" -- not useful. Otherwise instances of "Sugito" and "Tsuyoshi" mostly appear in science publications.

There was this query on a Gibson board 15 years ago: Invalid Link Removed which says in part: "I understand that Fine Guitars were a Korean factory building Epi Les Pauls in the 1990s. Serial numbers have a F prefix." Unfortunately there are no replies or followups. This is probably the closest we have to useful information about the bass in OP's pics.

There is a Fine Guitars in Fukuoka Japan, but it's a retail store and repair shop, they don't design and manufacture guitars.

The AI-generated text is, as far as I can tell, completely fictitious. Since I do not read Japanese I couldn't say whether my attempts to find the luthier were stymied by not knowing how his name is written in kanji, but since "Fine Guitars" is an English phrase, it should have been capable of summoning some kind of relevant info, but there's nothing.

 

[Pdaddy1978]

Sounds like your looking at a ghost bass.
But I will say, its an awfully good looking ghost bass.

 

[Peteyboy]

In pre-Iggy Stooges, Curly Fine was known to play Zon basses exclusively.

 

[2thAche]

What does AI say it weighs?

 

[Winslow]

Since I do not read Japanese I couldn't say whether my attempts to find the luthier were stymied by not knowing how his name is written in kanji...

It wouldn't have made any difference in an English-based browser. Not everyone uses kanji any more anyway. I know some people in Japan whose parents only named them using hiragana spellings, choosing not to bother with kanji at all.

It's a prime example of why some places refer to that kind of text as "AI slop."

 

[Heiwa]

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Looks like a cheap korean brand

 

[Winslow]

What does AI say it weighs?

"The metric equivalent of 6.4 Venusian orangutans."

 

[Peteyboy]

Hi, lately i find in my area on facebok marketplace a Fine Jazz Bass. I never see this brand and i didn't find any information on the internet. Strange, the bass looks fine, is beautiful red. So i ask to google ai studio. It said Fine Guitars: High-quality, handcrafted Japanese basses and guitars. Premium materials, excellent craftsmanship, often classic designs. Highly regarded instruments. Did you agree? anyone ever heard something?

Go check it out! How much does he want for it?

 

[Reedt2000]

Can't be of much help here, I only play course guitar...

 

[Smooth_bass88]

They’re fine

D.S. al Fine

 

[Jeff Scott]

"The metric equivalent of 6.4 Venusian orangutans."

I'll have you know that we saw two of them at the Cincinnati zoo recently.

 

[Winslow]

I'll have you know that we saw two of them at the Cincinnati zoo recently.

If they're actually from Venus, great! You only need to steal those, plus 4.4 more of them to qualify for a cheap bass!

 

[AltGrendel]

"The metric equivalent of 6.4 Venusian orangutans."

It’s also about 1/3 of a giraffe in length.

 

[/\/\3phist0]

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Looks like a cheap korean brand

Exactly what I found, google image search on the logo.