The founder of Audible Steel Jay’s love for music started with the discovery of a Beatles single while he was in elementary school. After that first Beatles song, he started tuning in to various radio programs, through which he discovered the music of Otis Redding, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, Derek & the Dominos, and more. As he grew older, he went on to study music at Musician’s Institute (GIT 1993) and started playing professionally.
In parallel, Jay also worked alongside his father in the family manufacturing business where he learned about metallurgy, designing and manufacturing, commercial corrosion testing, and more.
Given his curiosity about how things worked, these two worlds – music and manufacturing – began to converge.
One day, Jay was presented with the opportunity to serve as a caretaker of a very large vintage guitar collection. As he worked with those instruments, he fell in love with the sound of the vintage Strat.
With his deep manufacturing experience, and professional music training, Jay started experimenting with different materials and configurations. The result was the design of Audible Steel’s bent steel saddle for S-style guitars. Try out a set and experience that classic sound!