Musicians get all the ‘breaks’ even in travel. Everything I make art with is a no-no traveling/on board any airplane that either I do not own myself, or is owned by some fabulous wealthy collector who jets around and has deigned to allow my co-flying.

In the Public Air thoroughfares; No Markers, especially oil markers, No Paints, no Paint Brushes -because Lord knows I could take down a slew of people by (?) poking them repeatedly with the blunt wooden ends; or I suppose tickling them into submission of control of the flying vehicle, with the brushy ends, it could happen?

No Pallet knives for my non-existent paints because the name just doesn’t pass tsa-roll-call. AND Certainly aerosol cans never go anywhere by air; even checking them is NO-forgetaboutit! Ground-transport only you stupid artist.

Possibly the ONLY thing that can fly is (and I have flown without saying a single word to anyone-just shoved it through the Ray-Box) graphite pencil sets. . I just ain’t all that excited by pencils, at this stage in my career.

So even being able to “break them in half for travel” doesn’t make pencils the ideal travel art tool. Especially since once you do break them down they just stay smaller. So they DO modify but that is seriously not the coolest modification.

And sculpture tools? hahahaha “heavy-metal” ain’t welcome via airBus, is all I am gonna say to that.

So: you win, minstrel. Your ‘toy for flying’ with your art is better than anything I have outside of my camera… but you have that too.

It’s Just Not Fair that Songbirds get all the preferential travel niceness. But I do seriously love the gadgetry of this guitar. The tool-maker-user in me wants one just for the msGadget of it.
–rawToolie

Dude, I must try it next time we’re co-located for at least 5 minutes. I’ll be running a series of posts soon on a Squier tele I acquired for travel purposes (fits in my suitcase with the neck unbolted). By acquired, of course, I mean stripped of everything and rebuilt to Ben Bonin specs 😉