Basso made good steel frames, but I don't know if they sent their production overseas. There seem to be a number of the Italian thoroughbred brand names that quit making their products in Italy the old-fashioned way. I came close to buying a Cinelli a couple of years ago until I read that they were being made in Asia. That's not to say it's a bad frame, but only to say it perhaps wasn't hand-brazed by a guy named Giuseppe.