When he died Aug. 23 of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, Gregory Bedore, 70, left two collections he spent decades curating — Zeiss cameras and handmade guitars. ⁠ ⁠ Some of the guitars were made using other objects, including a cigar box, a vacuum cleaner and a drum.⁠ ⁠ How many cameras?⁠ ⁠ “Hundreds,” said son Dan Bedore.⁠ ⁠ And guitars?⁠ ⁠ “Just in this room I’m standing in, over 100.”⁠ ⁠ “He’s possessed,” Peggy Bedore said of her husband in the July 23, 1990, edition of the St. Petersburg Times. ⁠ ⁠ “Greg doesn’t do anything 50%; it’s always 110%. I thought he got a little carried away. But it must be nice to be that passionate about something.”⁠ ⁠ The source of that possession was, in fact, a passion for very specific, beautiful, useful, rare, remarkable things.⁠ ⁠ The link in our bio has the story of Bedore’s life.⁠ ⁠ ✍️ : Kristen Hare; 📷 : Courtesy of Leon Bedore & Dave Scheiber and Times (1990)