So what did you look like back then????

[Tim Wells]

I'll go back 23 years along about September 1985... Joshua Tree National Monument, CA. I forget the name of the climbing route but it's just a short 2 pitch and steeeep! I'm about half way up.

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Absolutley fantastic photos!!!...........just wonderful. I can see that a few of us have been heavily using Sam's balding wax!!!

Cheers
Andrew

P.S. There is an extra special one to look out for in the next issue of the Engraver magazine of our beloved FEGA El Presidente Rex Pedersen.................it's a cracker!!!

 

[beegee]

Wow, look at that head of hair!!

No, I got rid of that one. It was a low-end Asian import. I still have the one I replaced it with, though.

Do you still have that Gibson Style 6?

 

[fegarex]

Tira,
You make me mad. You haven't aged at ALL!!
You just posted those pictures to make the rest of us look and feel old!

Rex

 

[d.soileau]

You know, I thought of that when I was writing that post! That banjo was my first (of many) 'lesson learned'. I had to sell that one at a loss and buy a better one.

Weldon: That's an awesome photo!

Fellow dork Sam

ive just noticed you talk down about "cheap asian imports"
i just found it humerous that your first banjo was one.

 

[KatherinePlumer]

I can't resist, this should get some laughs. Here we go back to 1986. I remember being very miffed because I very specifically told the reporter it's called a Canada goose.

-Katherine

(yeah, I was pretty weird)

 

[PAUL LANTUCH]

My past life

#1 - Looks like 1950, kindergarden.
#2 - 1971, Lithuania, country
#3 - 1978, Lithuania, working on the clock for Vilnius University.

 

[Abigail]

Here we go. This is me in nursery school. I think Sam was 20. Bwahahahaha

 

[Don Cowles]

Long time ago...

I was seventeen in this shot taken 50 years ago. New Martin guitar!

 

[richard hall]

grade school

 

[Fred Bowen]

This is me in around 1974. Amazing how much I haven't changed (don't look at the avatar). My Martin guitar was ten years old. Nice Martin Don. I see you haven't changed either.

 

[Mack]

How the heck did I get this old !

 

[Tim Wells]

I was seventeen in this shot taken 50 years ago. New Martin guitar!

That is a great shot! you still have the guitar?

 

[JJ Roberts]

As "Old Blue Eyes" would say: When I was 21 that was a very good year!

 

[pilkguns]

Okay, here is some oldies

I was 21 in 1985 at the FEGA show at the old El Rancho in Vegas. That’s my dad sitting next to me. He met a stranger out on the casino floor, and brought him to see my work. Long story but I ended up telling him he could’nt see so good about some of my engraving that he liked and I did’nt. I unintended really insulted him. Some months later, I discovered it was John Amber, one of the most influential members of the gun press for decades, who in fact, did have severe eye problems.

This is a year later at the 86 show, Kay Lane, Ben Lane's gorgeous wife, (Ben was President of FEGA then) took this photo and kept calling me Black Bart. I wonder why?

This is roughly same time frame 85-86 I was set up engraving at a gunstore. You can see the Neil Hartliep influence in that humongous disc the vise is attached to.

Okay I know you want to see a stupid one, I am about 16 here, and wearing one of my favorite shirts from a F-14 Tomcat fighter squadron. I am not drunk, just the way the flash caught me at the moment

this is not really so old, this was taken 1998 when knifemaker Gaétan Beauchamp flew down to take some lessons from me, and you can see the contrast in my engraving setup, which is basically the same setup today.

 

[Tom Curran]

Sweet sixteen

Here I am at sixteen, with my first made rifle. Hahaha. Engraving hadn't even entered my mind at this point.

 

[gail.m]

Well, way back in 1975 this is a picture of me and my favorite Morgan horse. He was 21 and I was umm older than he was.
gailm

 

[FANCYGUN]

OK Guess it's my turn to scare everybody. Here i am at the innocent age of 18. YES I DID HAVE HAIR

 

[FANCYGUN]

OK try it again.it's early here and I haven't had my coffee yet

 

[Jim Sackett]

1946

Just had to show this one too.

Uncle Len, Me mudder, Me

Jim