Larry needs our help!

My name is David Giulietti and Larry Robinson has been a great friend to me since the first time I drove out to meet him at his house 25 years ago in Sonoma county California. A lot of you know Larry and what a warm, brilliant, funny, generous human being he is. He is also an extremely talented artist and innovator working in shell inlay.

Recently Larry had hole open up in his heart which required open-heart surgery. This required a lengthy stay in the hospital while the doctors waited for the scar tissue to form on the edges of the flesh between the chambers of his heart. The scar tissue makes the delicate flesh of the heart walls strong enough to stitch back together. Luckily he made it through the surgery and is back home healing.

Like a lot of us who make a living with our hands Larry relies on moving jobs out the door to pay his bills. Right now he could really use some help paying his expenses so he can focus on getting strong again. He is recovering but it is a slow process getting back to being a working inlay artist.

I've set up this GoFundMe to support Larry with immediate day-to-day needs, including:

Please give whatever you can. Every bit helps!

the paragraph below is from Tom Ribbecke (brilliant luthier).

"No better human or friend in my life than the one and only...Larry..

I have been here myself.. and have been saved by my friends and some strangers on this very platform..., It changed my life...and I never forget it..

Many of us are at this critical inflection point in our lives, In our later years in a country with limited health care options even for the creative geniuses, who have given their lives to creating art to enchant and raise the human spiritual condition.. and who are still creating and putting beauty into the world... Even if you hate my politics, you have to agree we need more beauty...

As an aside to the integrity of the man himself , there is the reality that his impact on the world of luthiery and inlay art is and has been, and will continue to be, the stuff of legends..I have also had the privilege of being a band mate for for years...but more importantly, his friend, and there have been a few times where this fact alone saved me..

If you can help , great, even if you can't share it please!

This is how we take care of each other now..."