Yeah, I must have spent half my waking hours in the Showcase section this past year!
My small related confession is, for a while I've had a shop project on the back-burner. It's a huge old double-bass, (a true 4/4 size) from the late-1800's, with a nice big wide neck. The poor old thing is in such badly preserved condition that no decent repair shop would touch it with a ten-foot pole. Since it has little to no value for antiquity my plan is to convert it to a 5-string. Interestingly, it began life as a 3-string, and was apparently converted to 4-string in the 1920's.
With my two Alembic 5-strings, that would kinda' complete the circle. =)
