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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Aug 21, 2015 - 01:25pm PT
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Maestro Pennequin- Your wish is our command and Art's beauty of an Eiger wired Hex just arrived today. Send me your preferred mailing address and I will send you a box of goodies next week.
Do you have an original Lowe Tuber in your collection? Show me what you have and I will add to it as needed.
Cheers,
Steve Grossman
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 27, 2015 - 09:30am PT
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PM sent!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Oct 28, 2015 - 11:59am PT
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At long last your box of goodies is in order Maestro Pennequin and I am waiting to hear back about one item before I send it out.
Do you still have any missing items in your Campbell Nut selection?
How about Gendarme Nuts and I only mean wedges?
Cheers,
Steve Grossman
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 29, 2015 - 01:52am PT
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PM sent... Master Grossman, I sincerely hope that you won’t be too much afraid by my "missing nuts list"…;-)
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pyro
Big Wall climber
Calabasas
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Oct 29, 2015 - 07:19am PT
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Pretty damn kool
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Oct 29, 2015 - 07:31am PT
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In life a man only needs two nuts, then everything else falls into place from there.
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Oct 29, 2015 - 08:45am PT
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Two nuts!
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Oct 29, 2015 - 09:19am PT
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Wow... Marty, I’m most flattered and very pleased to see that you also treasure my old handwritten little papers... :-)
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karabin museum
Trad climber
phoenix, az
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Oct 29, 2015 - 03:04pm PT
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Stephane,
I have every correspondence that you have sent me that is written by hand. Every card, note, shipping label and gift. I have most of the computer generated emails as well but for some reason the computer correspondence (besides the data and documenting and the sharing), doesn't hold strong personal value like the hand written letters do.
Yes even Stephane is part of the Karabin Climbing Museum. Thanks for your 20 years of support!
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 23, 2015 - 03:25am PT
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Without Steve Grossman’s immense generosity, to date, I would not have been able to post such a photograph here on Supertopo: the full set of the Clogwyn Climbing Gear Acorn Wiresling Nuts! After more than twenty years of difficult research, disappointed hopes, the set of these exotics nuts is now complete! What a Christmas present… Life is beautiful!
Thank you very much Master Grossman!
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 25, 2015 - 11:47am PT
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A Very Merry Christmas to you Maestro Pennequin.
Were it not for Bob Culp's generosity in allowing folks to sell used gear at the Boulder Mountaineer several rare nuts wouldn't be in my collection at all. The Acorn of your desire has been kicking around my gear box for four decades.
The tiny Gendarme Nut on yellow perlon also belonged to Bob before we sent it your way in the box of Holiday Mixed Nuts. Now I just need to find you a #2 and #4 in mint shape.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 26, 2015 - 07:07am PT
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So Steve, these two little nuts are what I suspected them to be: genuine treasures! Many, many thanks for these awesome surprises. My The Gendarme Dual Taper Wedge #5 was given to me twenty years ago by the former owner of C.M.I., Ethan Becker. It is only several years later that I discovered what this nut really was. It stayed alone for a long long time…
And… no matter the condition, a #2 and a #4 would be great additions to the Nuts Museum…
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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I mentioned this over on the Eiger Company thread but do so again here, the medium Gendarme Nut came from the gear of a very well loved Boulder climber, Jennifer Martin, who tragically passed away not long ago.
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JC Marin
Trad climber
CA
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This is a great thread--if even 1% more of the internet was like this it would be a much better world.
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i-b-goB
Social climber
Wise Acres
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Dec 18, 2016 - 02:02pm PT
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Hey micronut rack up with a full set...
I think Donini likes the blue one, wait that was a Camalot! : )
Get a pair of chockSTONES!
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 12:41am PT
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Steve I’m delighted that my Christmas card reached you safely!
Please Steve, what do you mean by “post your Allain carabiner holdings over on the Pierre Allain thread if you wouldn't mind” I have already posted a photograph of all my PA carabiners on the second page of the thread PIERRE ALLAIN MTN 62.
And... what about these mysterious prototypes... ;-)
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Steve Grossman
Trad climber
Seattle, WA
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Dec 19, 2016 - 08:13am PT
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Maestro- I didn't check the Pierre Allain thread before asking you to post there so sorry for the confusion. I bought a few of his locking carabiners and didn't recall seeing that you already had one. Do you have any sort of timeline on the first availability of his locking carabiner?
As for the prototypes mentioned, I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise by letting on just yet.
Cheers and Happy Holidays!
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 19, 2016 - 08:47am PT
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I only have one PA screw-gate locking carabiner at home. In fact, they are not this common. What makes this carabiner so precious to me is that I bought it to Pierre Allain in September 1992 when he very kindly opened his home and knowledge to me for a very personal visit. I went to the mainland from Ajaccio to Nice, and then to Uriages (near Grenoble) specifically to visit the Maestro of all the Maestros. This was absolutely magic. I will look at my Au Vieux Campeur catalogs this evening to try to give you a date for this carabiner.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Topic Author's Reply - Dec 20, 2016 - 12:13am PT
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The PA screw-gate locking carabiner is mentioned for the first time in the catalog Au Vieux Campeur 1969.
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