As Wood As It Gets

Is it really Ren Faire season again, already!!? Yeah it is, and we are pumped! Check out all the new tankards and goblets we have to start the season with. Opening day at Renaissance Pleasure Faire in beautiful SoCal, and the booth is ready.

As long as is warranted, I will keep making the F Trump and F ICE tankards. I'm REALLY hoping it won't be necessary sometime in the near future, but holy hell, what the F is this Jack Ass trying to do our country? And yeah, I'm aware that this post might turn away some potential customers, but that's the price I'm willing to pay for speaking my mind, I mean, we still have the 1st Amendment, at least for now. If you support this regime and their absolute chaos, especially regarding ICE raids and killings, then my tankards probably won't make your beverages taste better anyhow. Don't even get me started on our standing in the world. This latest beauty is made with Douglas Fir cones from my friends backyard next to the Oregon Renaissance Faire site, and glows beautifully at night. **kTrump **kIce

I made the first one last year, using pinecones to spell the FU, but it definitely feels like it's time to make some more. If this offends you, you probably don't know what I stand for and likely shouldn't be one of my customers. Appreciate you all, especially the ones that understand. Stay tuned for more serious posts, and lots of amazing new Burl and Burl and Resin inspired tankards and goblets as we get ready for the 2026 season. Let's make this a hell of a year, people! #everoneneedsawoodmug #renfairesarethebestfaires #woodturning #F**kTrump #Resist

What a great day up in Eureka California buying so many burls! Got to finally meet George Buck and his great team, , who are sone of the original burl hunters in Northern California. I realize I haven't posted in a while, I took a header off a platform at NorCal Ren Faire and did a pretty good number on myself, but I'm back and sourcing all the burls I can to get ready for the 2026 season. Just wait people, these are going to be sweet!

We have a lot of amazing customers, but I think the cutest one may be Yara. She came back for another session to be my As Wood spokesmodel yesterday at The Northern California Renaissance Faire This time we had a custom toddler tankard waiting for her as her commission and we had her take pictures next to the largest tankard I've ever made which is 73 oz. Tell me this kid isn't the cutest ever As Wood customer. And since Facebook won't let me do pictures and videos in the first comment, there's a cute picture of her toasting the other tankard after we taught her to do this. Cheers!

Have you heard? We are now offering custom pet imaging on tankards for our amazing customers. It started by us testing out the idea with an image of our amazing new rescue puppy Shakespeare, who you can see on the small cup on the far right. The two taller tankards on the left are custom orders for really cool customers up at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire and they're the first custom orders in this category for us. We can do cats, dogs, rabbits, horses, and whatever other amazing animal friend you would like to have immortalized on a cup. A huge shout out to Vann D**e, my laser guru, for making this possible.

Stay tuned for all kinds of new tankard and goblet designs that are going to be unveiled in the next few days as we're getting ready to start The Northern California Renaissance Faire in just over a week from now.

Another great season Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire has come to an end! Always one of my favorite faires and this was no exception this year. Thanks to all the amazing customers that keep coming out and visiting us and adopting their new tankards and goblets. We can't wait for next year's Faire to begin. In the meantime, keep an eye on the website as we will be populating new tankards and goblets As soon as The Northern California Renaissance Faire is over towards the end of October. I've included a small sampling of some of the new tankard owners and their new mugs. Huzzah!

Our very good friends and fellow vendors, Bubba and Clarice, just had their trailer with all of their product, their pavilions, their costumes, and all of their gear stolen on the way from the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire to the The Northern California Renaissance Faire . This is all the product for two booths, Belmont Blade Works and Build A Hat. If you're able to help at all, it would be so greatly appreciated by all the fair community. Here's the link.

Donate to Urgent Help Needed for Clarice and Bubba and reBuilding, organized by Clarice Arcia With Extremely sadden hearts we have the news that the trailer w… Clarice Arcia needs your support for Urgent Help Needed for Clarice and Bubba and reBuilding

First of all, I would like to thank all of my amazing customers that we've had this year and in previous years. Y'all keep coming by every year and adding to your collections or getting your first mug or peppermill set and we truly appreciate it! Because of how busy you've kept me, in the best way possible, I decided to make a post about what I do during the week. We get lots of people talking about Ren Faires not having handmade artisans that make their own products and I'm here to tell you that the majority of us make our own stuff and a lot of us do it on site. Because of your fabulous support, I had to go buy new tools this week to keep the wood turning shop open to keep up with the amazing demand. That is the most awesome thing ever. That means I'm buying tools and exotic lumber from small businesses to keep them moving forward, as well as generating tax revenue to keep the world going.

If you come by the booth in the next three weekends at the Washington Midsummer Renaissance Faire ask to see my new baby lathe that I had to install to be able to crank out more fantastic products.

Cheers, and thank you all so much as always.