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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 27, 2008 - 07:10pm PT
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I'm posting on behalf of Stephane Pennequin of the Nut Museum in Corsica, France. Stephane has for some years been searching for the largest of the Wired Bliss cams for the Nut Museum collection. His running across last year's Wired Bliss thread prompted a conversation with Deucey and John's subsequent suggestion that Stephane post a request here on ST.
If anyone has either the #5 / #7 or both you'd be willing to donate it would be much appreciated. Stephane is a family guy with a small photo shop and doesn't have a lot of resources for purchasing such items. Most of the collection is from donations from many different individuals, designers, and manufacturers. Stephane also thoroughly researches and documents each piece he acquires and is in ongoing discussions relative to a permanent home for the collection.
I donate pieces various rare and vintage pieces I run across to help insure that somewhere we leave a legacy and record our passion - I don't want to collect this stuff, but I'm glad there are folks like Stephane, Marty Karabin, and Ken Yeager, and Gary Storrick who are. Many folks have been quite generous in this respect and
you'd be in great company if you'd consider contributing these cams to the Nut Museum collection.
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Mar 27, 2008 - 10:27pm PT
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bump for a good cause
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2008 - 03:37am PT
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Thanks Raydog!
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Raydog
Trad climber
Boulder Colorado
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Mar 28, 2008 - 03:41am PT
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luv ya bro.
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rick d
Social climber
tucson, az
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Mar 28, 2008 - 10:20am PT
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I've got the #5 I told him I would ship.
will do asap (sorry, misplaced it for a few months).
rick
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2008 - 12:43pm PT
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Rick, that's very kind and generous of you - thanks so much for doing so - Stephane will definitely appreciate it.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 28, 2008 - 02:09pm PT
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Klaus - then it found a good home with Marty as well. I'd love to see Ken, Marty, and Stephane pool their collections someday into a permanent home - they'd have enough for both a permanent exhibit and a traveling one, if not two traveling ones.
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nutstory
climber
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May 21, 2008 - 05:23am PT
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Here, I remain very grateful to Joseph Healy who, once again, helped me in my endless quest of the Nuts’ Story odyssey by posting my request for the two Wired Bliss Buddies on this forum.
I would also like to thank very much Rick Donnelly who very kindly parted with his superb #5. For a long, long time, I have been searching for such a very finely crafted Wired Bliss big cam. I really would have loved to get one of these oversized Friends in the mid eighties while nobody could exhibit such a tool at that time in Corsica. With such a device hanging among my rack, there would have been no doubt that the status of an “all nuts” climber definitely would have drawn a great deal of respect, even outside the circle of the initiated…
Now, this Buddie has henceforth found a good home in the “Wired Bliss Nuts Museum” here in Corsica and it would really enjoy to be joined by its big brother in the foreseeable future…
Thanks to the generosity of people who share their time and knowledge with me, the Nuts Museum is going from strength to strength!
Stephane / Nuts Museum
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climbrunride
Trad climber
Durango, CO
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May 21, 2008 - 05:29am PT
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Great story! The Nuts Museum website is such a great resource, but it would be really fun to see the real collection.
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Jaybro
Social climber
The West
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May 21, 2008 - 11:09am PT
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Those things belong on your rack, not in a museum...
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Oct 28, 2016 - 08:23am PT
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A very rare Faces Designs on Mountains Four Cam Cad 9, found on eBay, landed on Corsica yesterday! It is in an exceptional condition!
Without the assistance of my close friend and “sponsor” David Levy, this treasure would probably never have reached the Nuts Museum…
Here is a photograph that shows manufacturing details.
This morning, I was working on this photograph when our postman dropped a big package from England in my shop.
When I discovered Ian Parsons’ name on the package I was rather amazed as I was waiting a small envelop from him with the “Ian's mysterious cam” inside it…
http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=527817&tn=340
Believe or not, as soon as I took the package in my hands, I immediately had the feeling that it contained a Four Cam Cad 9…
Life is incredible! Yesterday my friend brought me a magnificent sample of the marketed version of this cam and, this morning,
I have had the immense surprise to discover in Ian’s package what I believe to be one of the early samples (if not the prototype…) of this monster cam.
Two Faces Four Cam Cads 9 in less than twenty-four hours… it is just unbelievable…!
Here, I would like to express all my gratitude to David and to Ian for their generosity and interest in the Nuts Museum.
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nutstory
climber
Ajaccio, Corsica, France
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Nov 21, 2016 - 12:09am PT
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Again, I am most grateful to Joseph Healy for starting this thread eight year ago. At that time, with such a supportive post on Supertopo, I did not imagine that it would take so long to complete the historical set of the Wired Bliss Big Buds. I would also like to thank Rick Donnelly for generously laying the first stone to the monument…
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 21, 2016 - 12:14am PT
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Stephane, always glad to help out and I'm happy to see it eventually panned out through others' generosity.
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