Router, Electric - Ed Stilley

 
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Router, Electric - Ed Stilley
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Router, Electric - Ed Stilley

Object numberoshtl2016.057.04
OriginHogscald Hollow, Arkansas
MediumMetal
Dimensions8 1/2 × 9 × 4 1/2 in. (21.6 × 22.9 × 11.4 cm)
Credit LineOn loan from Kelly and Donna Mulhollan.
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    DescriptionAn electric router used by Arkansas native Ed Stilley. It was called "the blessed router" by Ed and was used to carve the phrase, "True Faith, True Light. Have Faith in God." into his instruments.

    Ed Stilley was born in 1930 in Hogscald Hollow, Arkansas and grew up in a religious household. He married Eliza Miller in 1959 and they had five children. Ed worked as a farmer at his Ozark homestead to support his family and continued his preaching. In 1979, Ed began making musical instruments to give to children. Ed, with no formal training, made his instruments with simple hand tools, wood scraps, and items such as pot lids, springs, and saw blades. Over the course of twenty-five years, Ed has made two-hundred one-of-a-kind instruments including guitars, fiddles, dulcimers, and banjos.
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