OLF member and all-around great guy Burton LeGeyt is visiting Seattle this week and the two of us managed to connect yesterday afternoon. We met up at a coffeehouse in the Fremont neighborhood and chatted a bit before wandering around the corner to Dusty Strings Guitar Shop. Burton had noticed a Simon Fay guitar listed on their website and we were both excited to see one of his beauties in person. The guitar had been on consignment and sadly for us the owner had wisely come to their senses and taken the guitar back home before we arrived. Oh well, it's a nice shop and they had some gorgeous Noble's on hand, as well as a harp guitar that was so incredible we were both kind of afraid to touch it--at least I was!
From there we headed over to pay a visit to Rick Davis (Running Dog Guitars) and Cat Fox (Sound Guitar Repair) in their workshop, which is just a few blocks away. Rick showed us some of his amazing work, including a wonderful baritone guitar with beautiful inlay. That set us off on a topic and Rick showed us a rather surprising inlay trick that I suspect Burton may be putting to good use one day soon. As always, Cat was busy tending to the wildly diverse instruments that are lucky enough to find their way to her workbench, but she kept in the conversation by dropping the occasional droll and hilarious comment. Thanks, Rick and Cat! Visiting you is always a treat!
Burton and I considered heading over to Ballard for a visit to Michael Gurian's barge but when I called it seemed they weren't well set up for visitors, so we decided to take a stroll over to the Fremont Brewery instead. Always a good idea, in my opinion.
Thanks for sharing some of your time with me, Burton, it was great fun!
George :-)
P.S. Here's Burton, with a glass of Fremont Brewing's Dark Star Imperial Oatmeal Stout. It was delicious!
