So, who am I?
At a very young age I started making things with my hands. One of my first projects was a cribbage board I made when I was 12. It was made completely by hand, and it turned out rather well as I had plenty of time to make it due to the fact that I had been grounded in the house for several days as punishment for one of my many adolescent mistakes. Although it was not the first item I had made, it was one of the better projects I had completed at the time.
Over the next several decades I did make a few things for special people I knew but then life set in and I quickly became consumed with work and family, marriage and kids, and everything that goes with that. I poured myself into life but my need to always remain busy and to make things that came into my mind was always there.
It was in my late thirty’s when I made friends with a couple that were parents of some children in my wife’s daycare business. The husband, Kris and I hit things off immediately and it was easy to see that we shared a lot of the same interests of which one particular item was working with wood. It was this friendship and similar passion for wood that reignited my own passion to create with my hands.
In 2022 I launched JW Designs Woodcraft. We will see where this journey takes me.
J Wendt ~ Craftsman
Thank you to my family for supporting and helping me in the journey, Kris at @kb_kraftedboard for reigniting my passion and supporting me and helping with some builds, and to those of you that have already purchased some of my work.
Without all of you this journey would never have gotten off the ground!
Visit @kb_kraftedboard on Instagram to see some of Kris’s work and look for future joint ventures between JW Designs and KB KraftedBoard coming soon.