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Albatross

Ash Sphere

Bookcase

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Gold Dolphins

Grandfather Clock

Jewelry Store

Lacewood Bowl

Lacewood Desk

Mendocino Vessel

Predator

Rocking Chair

Rolltop Desk

Spalted Vase

Stagecoach Chest

Stopper & Vessel

Telephone Table

Violin Case

Walnut Vase

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Ron Renner
Geppetto's Woodworks
Vancouver, Washington
360-606-2949
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If I have had successes in my shop over the years, I suppose I should attribute them in some small part to mistakes that I have made. Mistakes cannot occur without doing things...and I can say that I have done a lot. Sometimes I think that I might have already seen the bulk of what can go wrong with things brought to my shop for repair. Then a ‘head shaker’ arrives in the shop and I’m reminded that I have only played with the tip of the iceberg.

By schooling I am an electrical engineer, a welder and a machinist. I have received degrees in these areas, but the hardest fought accomplishment is just being able to solve problems.

I have taken work into the shop that has arrived in a host of conditions, the most humorous being a large curved chair that came to me in a burlap bag and in pieces with no two of them joined in any fashion along with a few parts missing.

Many times a piece will sit in the shop for a week...maybe two weeks because I cannot completely see the method of repair. I say to myself that the piece is ‘cooking.’ It just takes time, sometimes, for a good solution to surface.

I like what I do; in fact I can honestly say that I love it. I have never tired of taking something into the shop that is in some state of disrepair and making it whole again. Many times over the years clients have identified the wrong area as the broken area after the repairs have been completed.

I take on the full spectrum of repairs. “From the mundane to the insane” is a statement that I often use to cover the gamut of my work. Carving, turning, and inlay work are common elements in the shop along with things like hand-cut dovetailed joints that match an existing style within a piece that I am working on.

I can machine parts from steel in the metal-working area or weld them in the outside shop. I weld steel and stainless, aluminum, and have been able to achieve successes in welding on cast iron, particularly while working on things like the old Singer sewing machine frames.

I solve problems. I create beauty. I make things.

Ron Renner

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