On Wednesday 25 April 2007, Moses McKnight wrote: >> But, just to put that in perspective for both of us, I was out to see Doc >> Blake 2 weeks ago as I pick up scraps I can use from his shop floor from >> time to time. It was about 7pm and he hadn't quit for the day yet, so I >> asked him when he was going to retire as I know he has a few years on me, >> but give him a chair at a pickin session and he can still start a fire on >> the fretboard of a banjo or mandolin doing real justice to some bluegrass >> at least as good as you'll hear on Mountain Stage, the radio program on >> NPR. He could sit in with Ricky Skaggs and be right at home anytime. >> Anyway he said he was too young to retire, he was only 78. And he said it >> with a straight face. Knowing Doc, he will probably fall over while >> tending his power hacksaw, making parts to fix a broken well tender rig. >> He and his son turn away work all the time. > >Did I hear BANJO!? :-)
Yippers, and this guy Doc Blake is good. We invited him and a few of his cronies, the local high school band director and a couple of music teachers from Weslyan(sp) College over in Buchannon in for a back yard dinner one night about 6 years ago, and then made them play for their supper. So for about 4 hours between 7 and 11, at which point somebody mentioned disturbing the peace, we had Mountain Stage quality bluegrass emanating from the confines of our covered back porch. Dunno who we would have disturbed though, all the neighbors were lined up on lawn chairs just across the fences enjoying the hell out of it. And when they quit, the neighbors all gave them a rousing hand. >I've built banjos for several years now. I >don't have a CNC machine yet but when I do I'll use it for some of my >banjo work. I'm currently working for CandCNC (www.candcnc.com) part >time putting together, testing, and repairing all our CNC electronics. >I helped with the design for our latest pendant and wrote all the >firmware and the Mach3 plugin for it. > >We currently only support Mach3 but I'm hoping to get some time to work >on EMC (I've been a linux guy for about 8 years now) and get our >products working with it (some work already but others will need some >extra work). > >I'm still a little wet behind the ears though at 31 :-) > >Moses McKnight >www.mcknightinstruments.com And that's some nice work! And with a name like Moses, I predict a long and productive life! -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) All things being equal, you are bound to lose. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
