The Portable Woodworker

Renaissance Design Group of Minnesota
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LARGE BURLY LOGS,

TO SMALLER DECORATIVE TIMBERS.

When a meaningful or sentimental tree tragically dies or falls, Please do not chop and burn the wood. Renaissance Design recycles those beautiful logs. Mike transforms them into authentically unique pieces of furniture, decor, memorials or art for you to share and enjoy for years to come.

Bring your lumber to us, or we can bring the saw mill to you for custom cut slabs and timber, dried to perfection in one of three kilns. Finishing work in the shop can be commissioned, cooperative, coached or done-by-you.   

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On-Site Lumber Inventory

Renaissance Design Group is consistently preparing lumber all year round. Species on hand may include: Hickory, Red Oak, White Oak, Elm, Pine, Spruce, Cedar, Ash, Tamarak, Teak, Black Walnut and more… Inventory is turning over weekly, the best way to check our inventory is to give us a call or send us a lumber request.

Saw Mill Inventory at RDG St Cloud

Two Wood Drying Kilns

Renaissance Design Group has two lumber kilns. The first is indoors in a controlled environment. It is heated and equipped with dehumidification. Drying lumber up to 9 feet in length. The second is a solar kiln that operates eight months out of the year and will dry longer 14-foot slabs. *FYI: Planing lumber up to 25-inches wide & 12-feet long.

Wood Drying Kilns

Wood or Log Recycling

Trees are such a valuable resource! When they die, or must be taken down it’s all too easy to burn them. Why not turn them into furniture? It can be difficult and expensive to rent a bobcat, a trailer and haul it away yourself. We do not take the trees down, but once on the ground, we can pick it up with our hoisted trailer and bring it back to the sawmill for milling. Maybe it is firewood or maybe it is meant for more. Call and ask Mike. Even if you do not need the log, perhaps we may buy it, depending on demand.

Log Recycling - Log on a trailer hauling it away

Custom Builds & Specialties

Craftsman, Mike Fanslau, specializes in small buildings (he sheds/she sheds), outhouses, pet shelters & benches. Common builds include: custom coffee tables, memory tables, mantels, bar tops, counter tops, unique office desks, headboards and footboards. Other projects may include: taxidermy plaques,  charcuterie boards, cutting boards, cribbage boards and more… There are No Limits.

Mike Fanslau with some custom cuts of lumber

Epoxy Services & Mentorship

There is an art and style required to applying great epoxy. Like bodywork on a your vehicle, these projects require a professional approach. An entire project can possibly be ruined if the product is applied incorrectly. Renaissance Design specializes in epoxy application and will offer coaching and mentorship to those who want to learn or may be troubleshooting a botched application in a DIY.

Epoxy Projects from the Portable Woodworker

What Is Mike Up To Today?

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Yesterday the Veterinarian took our third X-ray of Lollypops chest to see if the pneumonia had cleared up. Bad news was upon clearing up of the pneumonia, we are left with a round mass in her right lung that is larger than her heart, and is pressing up against her heart, and likely reducing her lung capacity. Choice(s) were to send this image to a radiology specialist.........If he says your vet is right..........the location of the mass & it's size wouldn't be operable anyway. We don't know if it will grow or not. All we know is this is probably what made her prone to quickly getting pneumonia. We can now quit taking the antibiotics. The doc said that often steroids can help to reduce inflammation. Now I just will pet her, watch her more closely and hope that she has time.........No way of knowing if this is cancer or not. As noted, if it's cancer......nothing to do anyway. Thus.......just make her comfortable, and loved. I thank each of you for the love, and support for Lolly and myself. She will be turning 8 on Valentines Week. I've got her scheduled for a Glamour day at a groomer next Monday. She feels good....and has no clue that she has this problem in her chest. ... See MoreSee Less

Yesterday the Veterinarian took our third X-ray of Lollypops chest to see if the pneumonia had cleared up.  Bad news was upon clearing up of the pneumonia, we are left with a round mass in her right lung that is larger than her heart, and is pressing up against her heart, and likely reducing her lung capacity.  Choice(s) were to send this image to a radiology specialist.........If he says your vet is right..........the location of the mass & its size wouldnt be operable anyway.  We dont know if it will grow or not.  All we know is this is probably what made her prone to quickly getting pneumonia.  We can now quit taking the antibiotics.  The doc said that often steroids can help to reduce inflammation.  Now I just will pet her, watch her more closely and hope that  she has time.........No way of knowing if this is cancer or not.  As noted, if its cancer......nothing to do anyway.  Thus.......just make her comfortable, and loved.  I thank each of you for the love, and support for Lolly and myself.  She will be turning 8 on Valentines Week.  Ive got her scheduled for a Glamour day at a groomer next Monday.  She feels good....and has no clue that she has this problem in her chest.

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She's a great pupper. I hope that you have many more good years with her!

Oh my gosh Mike, that's such sad news for your sweet girl! She's a sweetheart!

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Bummer. Lolli is such a joy.

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I'm often asked about the hardness of different types of woods. Usually i get asked.........is XXX a hardwood, or a softwood. Trees with leaves are hardwoods. Take note of the first species on this list below, it's cottonwood which is a hardwood......yet it's the softest wood on this list!!!!! Heart Pine is almost twice as hard, yet it's a softwood. ... See MoreSee Less

Im often asked about the hardness of different types of woods.  Usually i get asked.........is XXX a hardwood, or a softwood.  Trees with leaves are hardwoods.  Take note of the first species on this list below, its cottonwood which is a hardwood......yet its the softest wood on this list!!!!!  Heart Pine is almost twice as hard, yet its a softwood.

Loading up to go show and sell at the Makers Market in downtown St. Cloud. There about local makers there. Great place to get unique, one of a kind gifts. Hope to see you there tomorrow from 9am to 2pm. I will have lathe turnings, charcuterie boards, whiskey smokers, and a lot more + cribbage boards, (none as big as the photo below....but i can make one like that for you). All of my items are created on my sawmill by recycled logs from the region
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Loading up to go show and sell at the Makers Market in downtown St. Cloud.  There about local makers there.  Great place to get unique, one of a kind gifts.  Hope to see you there tomorrow from 9am to 2pm.  I will have lathe turnings, charcuterie boards, whiskey smokers, and a lot more + cribbage boards, (none as big as the photo below....but i can make one like that for you).  All of my items are created on my sawmill by recycled logs from the region
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