You all are quite welcome; I'm glad to have been able to share. I got some really good stuff, but I think this is the first Knob Creek where I didn't encounter something truly unexpected. Renee's statement about new color combos had me excited, but I think I must have missed out on it -- I have an idea about what she was referring to and may still be able to get one, but I don't want to say anything else that might disrupt the deal.

I suppose there was one thing that qualifies as unexpected, but in a delayed satisfaction sort of way -- I'd asked Garth if he might be able to bring a GrooveMaster like the one Jeff Forbush bought last Fall. I didn't know if Garth could accommodate my request without commissioning it as a Custom, but he told me today that he'd found an old GM blank and had it in for heat treatment; with all the other work they had, it isn't finished yet but he'll get back to me when it is.