After an initial career in lab equipment manufacturing I slowly transformed into Boston's Subaruguru. Ha! So now I try to protect my piano-playing fingers while burning them on hot heads and cutting them when building PCs. Today's my b-day (52), so I just bought a pretty tippy kayak. Guess I'd better learn to swim....
My Dad mixed art and craft as the head sculpter-designer at Swank in Attleboro, designing and carving all their cuff links, tie bars, etc., for 40 years! So i grew up with a basement full of bushel baskets of tiny carvings of amy and all objects a kid could imagine. He and my uncles were all toolmakers, etc., and consummate handymen. I quickly jumped sideways into a corner room, mysteriously playing with electricity, becoming a kid Ham, and all that, then built a few speakers as a teen. An ivy engineering stint got me a decade of high tech exposure before the corporate blowup. Being self-employed is its own curse, but I still enjoy using my hands, although without the artism of my Dad. I played organ as a kid. He CARVED a solid gold 1/2" Hammond B for my mom's charm bracelet (yup, with 2x 61 keys...and pedalboard) back around '65, but he never played a note. Fortunately I enjoy my Steinway B now, but interestingly can't draw anything BUT a straight line! Ha!
My Dad mixed art and craft as the head sculpter-designer at Swank in Attleboro, designing and carving all their cuff links, tie bars, etc., for 40 years! So i grew up with a basement full of bushel baskets of tiny carvings of amy and all objects a kid could imagine. He and my uncles were all toolmakers, etc., and consummate handymen. I quickly jumped sideways into a corner room, mysteriously playing with electricity, becoming a kid Ham, and all that, then built a few speakers as a teen. An ivy engineering stint got me a decade of high tech exposure before the corporate blowup. Being self-employed is its own curse, but I still enjoy using my hands, although without the artism of my Dad. I played organ as a kid. He CARVED a solid gold 1/2" Hammond B for my mom's charm bracelet (yup, with 2x 61 keys...and pedalboard) back around '65, but he never played a note. Fortunately I enjoy my Steinway B now, but interestingly can't draw anything BUT a straight line! Ha!