NBD: BFR Redwood StingRay

TL;DR - Oooo! Shiny! All my favourite stuff in one Bass. I can stop looking, I have everything I need

I spent some time in Northern California around this time last year. We visited a redwood forest and had a tour & talk. I really loved the look of the redwood and thought it'd make a beautiful Bass. I was there to pick up a neck-through StingRay, my first Bass and something I've really enjoyed playing. It was a great time, with good family; the first time I ever played my StingRay was up in the woods around Sebastapol, with some great Swampy Blues dudes, everything about that trip and that bass was just beautiful memories.

I had a Jazz-type 5-string for a while, never really liked it, it was just too big and wide and cumbersome, I really wasn't ready for a 5. Then, at rehearsal last week, my current StingRay went on the blink and I had to play the 5. It was like driving a car with two clutch-pedals. As I dove for the open E...BOOM! went the low B. Not a good night. By rehearsal last night I'd restrung it E-A-D-G-and-sod-taking-off-that-last-G and got through ok. But that neck is massive.

So, last week it's clear I need a back up Bass. I knew these redwoods were around, but I hadn't looked in earnest. I was so lucky to find one in Oz, let alone an HH. It arrived today and I slipped it out of the box and slipped in the Sandberg TM5 which was taken in trade, RTS.

 

There are two laminated barcodes in the case. Obviously original and preserved....why? Do people like that sort of thing when collecting?

 

Thanks.

Here's the info from EBMM: E55967 - This StingRay HH was completed on May 13th, 2008. The color is Redwood with the Honduran Mahogany neck. 1000 year old Redwood stumps were used for the tops on these, the body wood is Ash.