Very cute! Does he get his first Alembic when he turns 6?
Bill, tgo
Well, not from Granddude, that's fer shure! And I'm thinking it may be a tad out of Dad's reach, as well. If I start saving all my weed & beer money now, _maybe_ he could get one for college graduation.
He does have an electric, though. When his Dad was 7, he told me he wanted to play guitar; knowing how much the POS my folks rented for me when I was 13 hurt me (it's why I started playing at 23......) I popped for a Strat; MIK, but official Fender logo & all (made for one year before being replaced by the MIMs). Not a '59, but an actual Fender Strat; a pretty decent one at that. And it sat. At 9 he took up drums, and I figured that was it - then at 14, he caught fire, and became a much better picker than I ever was or will be (low praise, to be sure, but there it is). The very plasticy finish developed huge cracks when he was in college. Last year he turned it over to this guy he's sharing resources with (David learns some luthiery, the other cat gets to work in David's full-blown, professional carpenter's woodshop instead of the van he also lives in.....), so D. had him look at it for a refin. Turns out enough beer had been spilled into the cracks to cause some major ouchie, so they put a natural-finish swamp ash body on it; everything else but the straplocks is original . That was important to David, because he gave it to Rudy for Winter Solstice last year, and wanted to pass on as much of his ax as possible.
We're into the heirloom tool thing; D has his Grandpa Messino's (that's Her dad) Marlin 336, his great-grandpa Messino's Winchester 31, and his great-grandfather Bresock's (Pap; my maternal grandfather) Worington 16-gauge (jobber-built, most likely by H&R), and one day I will pass on my Grandpa Gerlach's (a carpenter like David) home-built toolbox - and, of course, the tools in it. nd yes, being the Cozmik Cowboy, I did inform him of this coming treasure by reaching in, pulling out one particular tool, and telling him "Someday, my son, this awl will be yours.) Groans commenced......
Peter
