PANCAKE DAY

It’s a truism you’ll hear from members of an unlikely but perfectly matched couple, from a friend finding success at a dream job far from home, or as it escapes your own lips as you choose a new puppy at the local shelter–“When you know, you know.” More often than not, it really does seem that one’s initial gut instinct is correct and learning to trust that is a skill that comes in handy when it’s finely tuned. Speaking from personal experience, I find that it can also apply to guitars.

I first met ‘Pancake’ in the blustery Pacific Northwest winter of 2012, while on a guitar-shop excursion from Seattle to Portland. It’s a trip we often took in the early days of Mike & Mike’s Guitar Bar, wherein myself and co-founder