[Harp-L] Re : what else do you do?

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Hmm well ........

I worked as a Chef many years while making a reputation in music blowing all kinds of music styles , now it's my music & my apartments and I do the cooking now at home and I'm talking 5 star stuff :) I say to my wife . " We may not be millionaires , but , we eat like them " heh heh .

When I was a kid I worked for my grand father in in his photography studio starting to to learn the trade at 8 and worked it 10 years eventually owning it , so now I have all this great camera gear ( large format stuff like 4X5 inch view cameras , 120 mm Roleflex & Rolecords and a 35mm Nikon system . While living on the Hawaiian islands I did a lot of surfing photography , there are lots of big wave riders there , I took some awesome pics I sold back the pictures to the surfers with my 35mm Nikon system - - - nice - - - .

When near the ocean ( Hawaii  preferred ) I scuba , surf , deep sea fishing and in the summers hike the high country here in the moutains near that surround this desert ( now covered with snow , quite beautiful and way up there high and away from me :) when I get a chance . Here in the desert during these cool days I hike into it and or bike ride always taking a harp and or camera with me .

I do special graphic sign age too on hard woods for businesses , engraving into oak and nearly any surface ( acrylic , glass , silver , stainless steel )  copying businesses font's & logo's as a specialty that comes as a knock off by product from being a chef doing ice carvings ( of many themes , from aircraft to swans & angelfish , big ones , including a ice dragon that too 36 300lbs. blocks of ice to make a 38 foot dragon of solid ice with the head over 10 feet in the air ) and other food garnishing adornments in hotels for many years . 

One such project was a cigar sign that was a giant cigar heh heh about 4.5 feet long with the businesses logo and store name in it's own business card font , it looked ( what else ) like a giant Cuban cigar with the end tip looking like it was lit with a nice ash , gold cigar band with native American Indian full frontal face  & bust with head dress on both sides of the cigar sign ( charged em double ) and I do humidors as well with deep relief engravings of personal signatures , initials in any font including classic caligraphy letter styles , aninals & game birds , dragons and classic Greek mythology & Aztec scenes , in short  anything the customer is willing to shell out money for .  

and most of all , ..........

I practice my music constantly . Now it's my guitar taking up my practice time since the harmonica is already an extension of myself like an other arm hand and all . I found out I had a talent for the guitar starting with a cheapie then a modest little spanish classical acoustic type guitar  ( made in Korea ) and moved up to a steel stringed acoustic electric ( saaaweeet nice one ) , now I have an electric / midi guitar rig and I'm like a kid in a candy store :) .

Also when not gigging clubs n stuff like that ,  I do small shows for free at different places like schools , hospitals etceteras . I teach local kids ( and adult big kids ) the rudiments of music theory , harmonica , guitar &  keyboards to for free here in my neighborhood .

Sincerely :

Hurricane Ramón

Aka :

Party_Man1@xxxxxxxxxx


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