Bob and Cindy King remember the day he announced he was now a professional chainsaw artist. Cindy nearly killed him. “I’d lost my job at Boeing and spent two years teaching myself how to carve ...

“I saw a picture of how to chain-saw carve a bear and couldn’t believe it was done with a saw,” he said. “I told my wife I was going to carve a bear with my saw.

“If I’m going to carve a bear, I’d love to capture the anatomy of the bear, make it realistic — but the bear holding a ‘welcome’ sign will outsell it eight to one.