Ah thanks for the kind words guys. Goes to show the nice community we have here on Basschat.
Thing is, it's only a thing. Memories of people, places and predicaments are what give inanimate objects sentimental value and, although I brought the thing into being and it is a genuinely nice instrument, I simply haven't had it long enough to become especially attached to it.... now my old Jazz bass, that was a different story. I [s]blubbed like a child [/s]shed a manly tear when I had to sell that to pay the rent.
I'm getting signals now that my potential lift to Bristol may be about to go tits up, so this bass is still very definitely for sale.