If you can deal with the string spacing, it'll be worth the drive, f4..nothing's like a Series. Don't buy it, though, or I shall be forced to reach for my stockings. Ho ho ho.
LOL jaeger...just made a pic of my two favorite things in this world--that bass and my wife, posing with me at my first gig in five years--my 'puter desktop. Be happy to send you a nice recent photo (of the bass) if you wish...but no. Heh.