And people think bass guitar is boring! 
By the looks of it, it seems it won’t take long before it crumbles. At least in the picture it looks like it is a little bent. Can it be fixed? What is it made of? I’m looking forward to see the pictures when Ronin is ready. 
Not many BassBuzzers kill Ninjas or Chickens with their bass (I hope). Not so sure about cowboys though 
The funny thing is: the worst looking parts are the most robust, cause reenforced epoxy.
I honestly don’t know anymore what I threw into the mix. Anything that looked like glue or epoxy based stuff!?
Nonono - it’s straight as a country singer, no worries.
It wil look better than new when I’m done with it, I promise. The secret is: car wrap.
Car wrap is the best human intervention since the Dutch invented bubble wrap.
Bubble Wrap is an American invention.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-bubble-wrap-180971325/
I don’t trust the Smithsonian anymore, don’t know why
It’s American 
Oh, wow, maybe we did not invent bubble wrap. Bummer. Now I’m less proud to be Dutch
But we did improve the light bulb! It’s also on Wikipedia….
Much like Shakespeare is better in the original Dutch
Hahaha!
Yeah, it sounds even more dramatic when you read the original Dutch version out loud as a non-native speaker.
Just try it:
Te zijn of niet te zijn, dat is de kwestie: of het nobeler is om alles wat het wrede Lot je toeslingert te weerstaan of om de wapens op te nemen tegen een zee van zorgen en al vechtend ertegen zelf ten onder te gaan? Te sterven, te slapen, niets meer; en in die slaap rust vinden voor alle hartzeer en de duizend pijnen die je lichaam je bezorgen, dat zou een einde zijn om jezelf toe te wensen. Te sterven; te slapen: misschien wel dromen: O nee, daar wringt het 'm: want welke dromen komen in die dodenslaap, als we de aardse zorgen hebben afgeworpen, het doet ons aarzelen. Door die twijfel rekken we onze ellendige levens, want wie zou de gesel en de hoon van de tijd verdragen, het onrecht van de onderdrukker, de arrogantie van de rijke, de pijnen van een onbeantwoorde liefde, de dwalingen van het recht, de onbeschoftheid van een ambtenaar, en de verachting waarmee onbenullen je geduldige werk belonen, wanneer je met een simpele dolkstoot rust kan vinden? Wie zou dit alles verdragen, zweten en kreunen onder een ellendig bestaan als niet de dreiging van wat achter de dood komt er was, het onontdekte land waar geen reiziger uit weerkeert verwart ons en maakt ons zwak, zodat we liever de lasten dragen die we kennen dan het onbekende tegemoet te gaan. Zo verlamt ons denken ons tot lafaards en lopen grote ondernemingen op niets uit. Stil nu, daar is mooie Ophelia! Nymf, laat al mijn zonden verder leven als je later aan me terugdenkt.
Note: also, it’s perfect when you’re totally drunk and do it loudly in an Australian pub while being filmed!
Ahh Ze Zublime Herr Hamlet
By the way - if you want to see some really cool (& funny) Hamlet:
O…k…
Lies… We all know the original is Klingon 
Klingon is Dutch!
You have lots of reasons to be proud of being Dutch. For instance, Poffertjes! No, I have never eaten them, but I have drooled looking at videos about Poffertjes.
Also some amazing Dutch cookies come to mind:
I got one of these every time I ordered a fountain pen from Appelboom, from the Netherlands.
My father sometimes said he had some Dutch in his family tree (he had mostly Portuguese roots). Unfortunately at that time in my teenage years I wasn’t interested in genealogy. Only after he died I tried to find more about it, but his sister didn’t know about it, and then she died too. So I might or not have some distant Dutch roots. That could perhaps explain my love for cheese 
Stroopwafels are God’s cookies!
We even have poffertjes restaurants in Holland, with very tasty interior design
My girlfriend and me did DNA tests.
I appear to have a lot of Neanderthal DNA (nobody I know was surprised about that) and lots of DNA from Scandinavia, France and England as well as Eastern Europe, or as my good old grandma used to say: “Our forefathers f#cked around a lot!”
For my girlfriend (blond, blue eyes, the whole German shebang) the results initiallly showed 1% Asian DNA, so I thought: “wish fullfilled, I finally have an Asian girlfriend”. But with every version of DNA analytics, results can change, so now it’s Egyptian DNA.
We are big fans of ancient Egyptian history, so that’s still ok for me, I guess
Poffertjes, trains and airplanes! There are so many details in the picture, I almost didn’t notice the trains in the window above the door.
I see, it makes sense! 
I’m just kidding. Most people of germanic roots have some Neanderthal DNA. Not many people know that.
I always felt reluctant to hand my DNA to any company to test it. I don’t trust them and I don’t know how this personal information could be used, if it is sold and end up with health insurance companies or something like that.
I imagine a DNA test wouldn’t be able to tell precisely if a person has Dutch roots. It would probably say I have germanic roots and it would be inconclusive, because I have germanic roots also from my mother’s side of the family (from my mother’s grandma who had German roots).
But it would be awesome if a DNA test would say “high potential as a bassist”
I almost forgot to comment on this. You were pirates, weren’t you? I’m kidding.
That’s interesting! As a birthday gift idea, you could get her a pendant of her name written in hieroglyphs.
Hahaha! I don’t need a DNA test to know I have no great talent. Playing bass is hard work for me, but that’s ok!
Well, not if your ancestors liked to party
I understand. I did it with 23andme, which was sold to investors and now the rules have changed. Bummer!
But: I’m old, healthy as a horse (kind of) … and the internet knows everything about me anyway. So … f#ck it!
Great thing is, that I found out that my original roots lie in Africa! That’s a long time ago, but it makes me feel connected to everybody in this world (also it’s always fun to mention among my black friends - “yo, we are the same!”).
I wish more people would be aware of our common origins…
In fact, there are stories about that in my family. But basically, every generation liked to party (and go to wars) … until they became Calvinists, and that was the end of all fun (except the wars).
I took it upon me to revive old family traditions (except war, kind of)…
Her name is "Anke”
Ankh is a hieroglyph that represents the word for “life” and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. That’s quite a fitting description of her…
