Timewarp
A quick history of Jay’s family and their love of woodcraft and more… with an uncomfortalble dose of embarrassing teenage photographs.
Great-grandpa Jay in his Illinois shop, teaching a cat how to use a drill press.
This is the shop/mill where a lot of the black walnut that WHWS uses came from.
Jay’s first hammer… possibly his second.
Jay’s dad, Ed, with the redwood canoe he made when he was 18 years old. Jay refinished this canoe, hauled it to Baltimore and still gets it in the water whenever possible.
Jay replicated a fretwork shelf that his great-grandfather made and brought it to the MN 4-H championships. Peak levels of teenage awkwardness here.
1997 - routing the pickup cavities for his first handmade guitar.
1997 - first handmade guitar about to get finished. I still have bits of that purple heart around.
2000 - second handmade guitar. Maple, mahogany, and curly maple.
The 1958 Dodge truck while it was still in Illinois at Great-grandpa’s shop.
Time travel! The old Dodge back in Minnesota with Ed, Jay and Jax, and with a new shine in Baltimore.
Still delivering art and wood projects from time to time.