Instrument maker has Cougar Gold-en touch

 
 
 
You’ve enjoyed the cheese, but what do you do with a Cougar Gold can?
Alumnus John Elwood builds fine stringed instruments, so using the iconic can to craft a banjo seemed a logical choice.
 
“These … are inexplicably pleasant to the ear,” says Elwood. “I blame it on the excellence of the cheese.”
 

Read the complete article and see more videos from the spring issue of Washington State Magazine here.