LMAO here Bumwash....A TIRE TREAD???.....I love it......beats the reality hands down!!!!

Catspaws are wave patterns and as a long time sailor, it was a term I'd been using for years. Then oneday it struck me, some weird corrolary between the sound of a Hammered Dulcimer and the fresh breeze and lightness of a catspaw. When we picked a name for the company 6 years ago, Catspaw Dulcimers seemed kinda' nice. Add this to the fact that our cats are always walking across one (or the piano) and it became even more appropriate. I started making soundholes in the cat's paw design after that. The 49 was both my age when I signed on and the year I was born.

But the tire tread thing is a lot better...and a step up...I could be Tigerpaw!

Spaw - Which is where it finally ended up.