Gibson Nighthawk. Yamaha red-label, made the year I was born.

Wood carving/working, photography, writing.

I spent half of my life as a rockhound/relic hunter with my father, dredging/panning for gold, prospecting for gemstones and digging indian artifacts (which is now, sadly, illegal most places).

What do you get if you cross a roadie with a drummer?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

An even dumber drummer....

[I've been known to be a roadie]

Started playing guitar at about 12 and took up the bass about 14 years later. Don't it much anymore but I've still got my 'Frankenstein' a Gibson SG body hollowed out for bass pickups with a Kay short scale bass neck. Strange conglomeration but sounds sweet!

Now that's cool, I spent a couple of years working in a Goldmine in Colorado.
Down around Telluride and Placerville, off of Specie Creek. I was a hobby Panner,
as well. Still am as a matter of fact. Living here in the South, I have decent access,
to Kings Mountain and it's backwaters, and Tailing Piles. Am hoping to get me a small Backpack Dredge or try to build one. I am also a minor Carpenter, and woodworker, spent a few years working, in an antique Furniture refinishing shop as well. I play the Bagpipes as well, but sold them when in a pinch. I guess that's the quasi Standard for Musicians.
Thank God for Pawn Shop! One Guys I know was so regular, at hocking his axe, they just kept his, Same Pawn ticket and used it over and over.

Acoustic bass over here.... but very, very poorly.

I just love the sound that comes from a good acoustic bass... heh, even when played by me!

CygnusXII: We had a claim on the Yuba in Northern California, and have spent a lot of time in East Tennessee and North Carolina/Georgia. They make some decent, compact 2-inch and less highbankers so you don't have to float anything, but me, though, I like a plain old pan and sluicebox. Less to worry with. Whenever I went somewhere with the bigger 6+ inch machines we spent half our time finding a deep or wide enough spot to float it, setting it up, tying it down, and trying to keep it running.

Granted, you move a lot more dirt, but it is more about the enjoyment to me.


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nerves, i play on peoples nerves.

i also tinker around with sulfur and any other chemical that i can make into a smoke bomb.

confusion, chaos, panic! my work here is done... *winky*

cooking of course. I play clarinet and tenor sax. A little with student's minds as well.

Bakerstreet -+- Way cool, my Dad did some prospecting off the Yuba, I never got the chance, to go there.
We did alot of placer work in Colorado, and we worked, some in Nevada on a claim, that had major gold,
trapped in aluminum silicate, and the aluminum was so light and encapsulated around the gold, that it kept washing out, and unecenomical to process.

"and unecenomical to process."

And dangerous too, if you use mercury and the like. I've known some people that worked gold out of the matrix, but I always prefered working the loose sediment. Probably because I am lazy and like to fish, too

The only thing I think we got out of Nevada was Opal. Pretty stuff there. Glad to meet another prospector.

life and living