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#4 - Jayszun Vanderwerff
This episode is with my new friend Jayszun Vanderwerff… but most people call him Jay.. for simplicity’s sake. Australian born to a Dutch immigrant family Jay is a luthier residing in Lara, which is just outside of Geelong here in Victoria. For those that don’t know what a luthier is… it’s someone who builds guitars.
Jay first came onto my radar after discovering his Instagram profile last year and, being a guitarist myself, I quickly became a fan of his work. Jay was nice enough to put together a rad looking (and even better sounding) guitar for me to use on a run of shows I'm doing with Melbourne band Area-7 and it has been a dream to play! You can find clips of the Teletron on his Instagram or my personal one, @azbce .
He's got an incredible story which I KNOW you're going to love and appreciate... everything from growing up in a rough area of NZ, failing every subject at school and being thrown in and out of detention centres.
After finding his way as a guitar technician and session guitarist he has toured and worked with some of the world's biggest rock and pop acts including U2, Bon Jovi, ACDC, Blink-182, Hillary Duff, Avril Lavigne and more.
Then there was the high level security work... serving as personal security to nearly every rapper you can imagine.. Mos Def, Phaeroh Monch, and even Henry Rollins.
This conversation was full of highlights and some extremely low points and I found it incredibly inspiring. Not only is Jay an amazing luthier, gaining the respect and appreciation from some of the world's elite, he's also an entrepreneur, a wealth of knowledge and an incredible human being. If you're a guitarist, a fan of music, or any type of creative artist, you are going to pull a lot of value from this episode.
The only place you can reach out to Jay is on his Instagram, @templeguitars but he's very active on there, posting great videos and pictures of his builds. Definitely worth checking out!
And as per usual links to other things we cover in the episode can be found on the show notes at thewritersblock.co
Enjoy!
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By Aaron SchultzThis episode is with my new friend Jayszun Vanderwerff… but most people call him Jay.. for simplicity’s sake. Australian born to a Dutch immigrant family Jay is a luthier residing in Lara, which is just outside of Geelong here in Victoria. For those that don’t know what a luthier is… it’s someone who builds guitars.
Jay first came onto my radar after discovering his Instagram profile last year and, being a guitarist myself, I quickly became a fan of his work. Jay was nice enough to put together a rad looking (and even better sounding) guitar for me to use on a run of shows I'm doing with Melbourne band Area-7 and it has been a dream to play! You can find clips of the Teletron on his Instagram or my personal one, @azbce .
He's got an incredible story which I KNOW you're going to love and appreciate... everything from growing up in a rough area of NZ, failing every subject at school and being thrown in and out of detention centres.
After finding his way as a guitar technician and session guitarist he has toured and worked with some of the world's biggest rock and pop acts including U2, Bon Jovi, ACDC, Blink-182, Hillary Duff, Avril Lavigne and more.
Then there was the high level security work... serving as personal security to nearly every rapper you can imagine.. Mos Def, Phaeroh Monch, and even Henry Rollins.
This conversation was full of highlights and some extremely low points and I found it incredibly inspiring. Not only is Jay an amazing luthier, gaining the respect and appreciation from some of the world's elite, he's also an entrepreneur, a wealth of knowledge and an incredible human being. If you're a guitarist, a fan of music, or any type of creative artist, you are going to pull a lot of value from this episode.
The only place you can reach out to Jay is on his Instagram, @templeguitars but he's very active on there, posting great videos and pictures of his builds. Definitely worth checking out!
And as per usual links to other things we cover in the episode can be found on the show notes at thewritersblock.co
Enjoy!