Congratulations, Michael! I just re-read your posts on the 3 pickup Spoiler you were looking at, and it's great something else worked out so quickly.
I'm tempted to look up 'verklempt', but I'm pretty sure I know what it means. Rogues happen to be my personal favorite, and though I try to resist using the phrase, it was my first Alembic - and so far, I have no plans to get another bass, period.
Please don't get hung up this 'worthiness' nonsense - judgement is simply not a useful concept here. Like any fine instrument, I think the only things it can reasonably expect of you are to appreciate and enjoy it, and take reasonable care of it.
(Dings and scrapes in pursuit of the first two don't count. As you may have seen, we're struggling to get brother Ingmar to understand this right now, but that's another thread.)
I'm on the verge of waxing philosophical here, but I really want to just go play for a while. And maybe that's the point: if it encourages you to play music - good, bad, or otherwise, only you can agree on what that really means - then it's probably happy, you're playing music, and overall the universe is a slightly better place (in whatever grander scheme that might be a meaningful concept).
When does it arrive? (trying to get you a grace period on the pictures)
-Bob
By the way, can we call you 'peggie' just for fun? Can't wait to see how this might tie in to the recurring discussion of stockings...
