Thomas Bednark was one of the Guild’s earliest members. Today he focuses on making baseball bats.
▪ bio current as of 2017
Thomas Bednark was one of the Guild’s earliest members. Today he focuses on making baseball bats.
▪ bio current as of 2017
2017
AL#130 p.60 read this article
Tom Bednark
▪ Tunquist ran the huge circular saw on which most of the wood for Martin guitars was cut in the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, and ’70s. He is remembered by Tom Bednark, an early GAL member.
2014
AL#117 p.5
Tom Bednark
▪ Raymond Tunquist, sawyer of Brazilian, Indian, Rosewood, Mahogany, and Ebony for many noted guitar makers, passed away on November 7th 2010 at age 93 in New York.
2011
AL#107 p.3
Tom Bednark
▪ Remembering Raymond Elwood Tunquist, age 93 of New York, a skilled sawyer and WWII pilot.