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Amped up Art
Weishair Custom Woodworks does
high-voltage fractal burning
SAUK CENTRE — Fractal burning is a risky form of woodcraft, but the reward is self-evident.
Weishair Custom Woodworks in Sauk Centre makes products with unique burnt-in designs, and the founder, Steven Weishair, enjoys sharing the art forged with high voltage.
“At first, the burn looks like a bunch of soot,” said Steven Weishair. “When I clean it with the steel wool and a little water, what impresses me is what gets revealed for the design. All the fine details show up.”
Growing up in the countryside east of Sauk Centre, Weishair always liked working with his hands. Some of his earliest creations came from his involvement in 4-H.He was into fishing at the time, so some of his projects for....
A nose for deer
Axley family uses dog to track wounded whitetails
ELGIN — From birth, Arrow, a wiry-haired rauhhaar teckel dog, has been trained to be obsessed with one thing: deer. Her experience has been immersive, whether gnawing on deer legs, chasing her owners as they dragged a piece of deer liver behind them or coming along to recover deer when she was a few months old.
Arrow’s owners are Josh and Nicole Axley who live near Elgin. Using Arrow, they operate UncleTracker Whitetail Recovery, a free whitetail tracking service in southeast Minnesota.
“From Day 1, we would let her have her puppy toys and that, but if we were going to play with her and get really excited and make something seem like it’s awesome, it was a deer part,” Josh Axley said.