Skera Woodworks

09/13/2026

Honored to help out such a cool organization. Keep your eyes peeled for some incredible crates soon

Sponsor Spotlight 🤎

We are incredibly grateful to Skera Woodworks for helping us create something special for our 2026 titleholders!

This year, each of our four new titleholders will receive her own custom wooden titleholder crate to take home with her crown, sash, and prizes.

These crates are going to be such a beautiful part of crowning day and something our titleholders can continue to use throughout their reign.

Thank you, Kaleb, for supporting Miss Missouri Outdoors and for helping us make this year’s titleholder experience even more special. 🌿👑

We truly appreciate businesses that choose to invest in the young women representing Missouri, conservation, tourism, and their communities.

Thank you for being part of MMO 2026!

07/08/2026

Showing just a bit of the process. After every meeting we draw up the custom piece to scale digitally to make sure everything will work like we think. This is a potential kitchen island, over 10 feet long with one end getting tile. Still undecided on a solid walnut top or a stone top. Not shown is that all of the doors/drawers will get rounded corners and every exterior corner is also round 🤯

06/18/2026

Just a little look behind the scenes at both of our best employees 🤣 for better and worse they do exactly what we tell them. Smaller red one is working on a few chair seats while the big silver one is carving slots in the chair frame to receive tapered dowel legs. Meanwhile I was working on some solid cherry stair treads. All the things all the time.

multitasking

06/04/2026

Chairs and more chairs! Two sets went out this week with more in the hopper. First set is the original design, solid cherry, natural finish. Second set is a vertical slat version in solid hard maple. More to come soon

Any suggestions on additional designs??? Always looking to expand our options and make beautiful things!

05/15/2026

Had to show some of the new process for making our vertical slat chair. So grateful we found and made a fixture for the cnc. No more messing with the other wimpy clamps that lift up the piece. Almost feels like cheating with the speed and repeatability lol

04/12/2026

Built this solid sapele arched-top door by hand from start to finish. Every curve was shaped with intention, every joint cut to last. The grain in sapele has this depth that almost moves in the light, and shaping it into an arch felt like coaxing something natural into structure.

There’s something grounding about working with real wood like this. No shortcuts, no veneers, just time, tools, and patience turning raw material into something that will outlive me. Not to mention the opportunity in modern woodworking to use the Shaper was extremely satisfying.

This one’s ready to become part of someone’s home, but for a little while, it was just mine to build.