Hi Mike and thanks for the reply, I thought about doing this, but when I create a base product, the attributes values don’t save unless I select something for the attribute. To do it this way I would need to select some attribute values for each attribute on the base product and then de-select this for the duplicated products.
To be clear, if I add the custom attributes for the base product but don’t select any attribute values or choose “select none” this will not be stored when product is saved – the added attributes will disappear unless you choose something which would then need to be de-selected on most of the duplicated products.
