I made this in high school wood shop about thirty years ago. Risner is my mother’s last name. My mother gave it to my nephew, who’s last name is also Risner, who hangs it at his home.

Decided I need to learn my way around lathe work. This piece is not sophisticated, but it's the first bowl I've turned in nearly 40 years.

I had made this sign as a donation to a local MMA FiTNESS class that my children were attending. Unfortunately they never put it up and went out of business. I don’t know what happened to the sign. I was super bummed because I was hoping this was going to showcase my work in the community and people driving past in the highway. Oh well. I’ve since went a different way, nobody wants to pay much for custom hand carved signs when they can have one laser cut cheaply on Amazon. At least I haven’t had much luck, a few interested but then shocked at how much I want.

Have you ever built an Adirondack Chair? These popular chairs are amazingly comfortable, if they're built right. Doing that is a bit tricky; but I found the formula for making one. Join me as I do this build. Patterns are available for the more complicated parts. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODXfq-I5XXc

Been meaning to build myself a router table for at least a year now. The table I've been using was the smallest, cheapest one sold, 30-years ago. It worked; but really wasn't big enough, especially when I started cutting my own baseboard and door casing. Here's the video of my build. It's not fancy; but highly functional.