Local Luthier Wins Regional Recognition

Garden and Gun magazine is aimed at the well heeled in the Southeast US. They have these competitions and I'm not sure what the criteria or who the judges are but a local to me Luthier/Carpenter, Jay Lichty, won the recent competition. Mighty purty stuff!
http://gardenandgun.com/article/made-south-awards

Good article, thanks. I'm hoping to have an epiphany like his - knowing what I am supposed to be when I grow up. His ukes are beautiful - currently only tenors and baritone, mostly makes guitars.

Regional Recognition

Re-posting:

I'm proud to say that I'm in the queue for a Lichty ukulele. His ukes and guitars look good on the site and they are marvelous up close.

Met Jay about a month ago in his shop in Tryon. Absolutely beautiful and amazing work he does, I felt so lucky to have found him in my home state. We spent a good three hours going over my ideas and choices and came up with what I think will be a terrific tenor uke. I planned to tell all you UU folks about the details and progress when he actually got a start on it.

He is also, just incidentally, a really nice guy, a real artisan and craftsman. Oh, you can bet I'm excited!

Also, Jay also just received recognition in a section of Sotheby's RESIDE magazine.