James Richardson

James is a retired Agricultural Economics Professor from Texas A&M University.  He has been turning wood since 2012 and prefers to work with Mesquite and any other wood that is handy.  He mainly turns bowls, hollow forms, and Alumilite burls.  He is best known for turning a bowl that has a rusty, hand forged horse shoe in the middle. James found the horseshoe while turning a bowl from a large Mesquite tree that grew on the trial Santa Anna’s army used on the way to the Alamo.  Some say, “Santa Anna’s horse lost a shoe on the way to the Alamo and James found it 180 years later.”