God speed, SDH.
A few years ago he agreed to tighten up a wobbly hammer on an old Ed Kettner 12 gauge. I drove to Livingston to drop it off and he ended up spending a few hours showing me around his shop area, looking through his photography and he brought out a custom gun to drool over. Very kind of him. We shared a few acquaintances (close friends to him), most of whom I hadn't seen for many years, and he spoke very kindly about them. When I picked the gun up, he went over how he fit the hammer in detail, bade me to take good care of the gun "because this thing's really old!" and I replied "Well, it was made after the turn of the century" and he barked back "yeah, the turn of the LAST century!!" and laughed a bit.
Blessings on his loved ones.
