Larry Cook

I'm just a humble electronics technician by trade, who likes to make nifty items out of wood in my spare time.  Having a tendency towards doing things my own way, and being self educated in playing with wood, everything I make is unique while still being properly built.

Ernie and Claudia Koch
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Koch Woodworking specializes in making hand carved wooden bowls and trays utilizing Iowa found wood and special memory woods.  We collect wood from downed Iowa trees and demolished or remodeled Iowa buildings.  We use common hand and power carving tools to turn this Iowa wood into wooden bowls and trays.  All our items are coated with a food safe finish and are suitable for everyday use, gifting or display.

Kent Ryan

Kent Ryan is a native Iowan and an avid history buff.  While studying journalism, psychology and art at the University of Iowa,  he took a job as a bakers helper and eventually left college to pursue a career in Bakery management.  During  his first job layoff in nearly 40 years he used his extra time to combine the woodburning skills he learned in the boy scouts with his  many years of  drawing experience as a cake decorator to start doing some woodburning art.  The result is a reflection of his interest in history and woodworking.  The artist cuts all the wood for the projects as well as making many of the frames and hand finishing all work.   All the pictures are made using a Razertip electronic woodburning pen.  No lasers are used to produce this work.

Joe Warnock

Joe Warnock continually seeks out unique woodworking projects to the extent that he can. He can occasionally be found chopping in old barns with a chainsaw, digging up old wood, and recycling it for new projects.

He describes his woodworking career as, "What started as a necessity, slipped into a hobby, and has turned into a raging mental illness." Joe grew up in Dawson, Iowa, but moved to Arizona shortly after high school and studied at Scottsdale University and Arizona State. He returned to Iowa, picked up woodworking, and trained with Mike Shibley, Dale Shirbroun, Mitch Shirbroun, and Brad Kiefer.

Jan Wormley

I have been carving wood since I was a child growing up in Colorado.

When people see my work, I'd like them to think about the living creatures represented there and maybe remember an occurrence in their own lives; hearing the meadowlark song at grandpa's farm or viewing the redwing blackbird perched on grasses along the roadside. I take most of my ideas for my pieces from events in my own life; sights I have witnessed around the farm while bringing in the cows for milking or when I am out looking for new calves in the pasture. . When I work with wood, I am reminded that this material was once a living thing, sheltering the birds I try to represent.