{"id":25765,"date":"2022-10-07T06:44:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T10:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=25765"},"modified":"2022-09-30T18:55:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T22:55:27","slug":"lakeland-entrepreneur-series-jon-ahlschwede-lakelands-original-entrepreneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2022\/10\/07\/lakeland-entrepreneur-series-jon-ahlschwede-lakelands-original-entrepreneur\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakeland Entrepreneur Series- Jon Ahlschwede, Lakeland’s Original Entrepreneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jon Ahlschwede is Lakeland’s original entrepreneur. He was born and raised in Lakeland and is an LHS Graduate – Class of 1965.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jon enjoys things that are crafted from wood. His dad was his role model and was his inspiration for working with wood.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jon has collected a large supply of exotic woods including swamp white oak, black walnut, mahogany,\u00a0and maple.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He created a large wooden black walnut sea turtle to hang\u00a0on the wall out of the exotic wood.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pieces of the different woods are creatively put together like a jigsaw puzzle. Each piece is hand-cut and created with precision and craftsmanship.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was then inspired by Florida\u2019s famous Tarpon and created the Black Walnut Tarpon wall hanging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There are more creative wall hangings of wooden fish, turtles, and Lakeland’s famous swans. Each piece of art is shaped, sanded smooth, and finished with tung oil. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jon’s other creative pieces are cut from white wood and fir. They are painted with \u201chappy colors\u201d that are vibrant and colorful. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jon is very thankful to the ‘Scout & Tag’ family for showcasing his creative and hand-made woodworking which are available for purchase.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Take home a piece of history from Lakeland’s Original Entrepreneur,  Jon Ahlschwede. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scout & Tag <\/p>\n\n\n\n

244 N KENTUCKY AVE<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LAKELAND, Florida 33801<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(863) 225-2426<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hours: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday – Friday 10:00 am – 6:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Saturday 8:00 am – 5:00 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sunday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jon Ahlschwede is Lakeland’s original entrepreneur. He was born and raised in Lakeland and is an LHS Graduate – Class of 1965.\u00a0 Jon enjoys things that are crafted from wood.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[3568],"class_list":["post-25765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-jon-ahlschwede"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}