Welcome to Collecting Coliseums

🔊 Intro

Welcome to Collecting Coliseums.

I’m Steve Reinker: from fall football to spring baseball, growing up sports were how I kept time. In addition to my love of sports I’m also a recovering card collector and founder of 467 Woodworking.

I started woodworking in 2018, but it wasn’t until late 2022 that I began turning pens—and in 2024, this passion found its rhythm.

Collecting Coliseums is a part of that rhythm.

It’s a series about stadiums, history, memory, and the idea that legacy can live in something small, quiet, and handmade.

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🏟️ What Is Collecting Coliseums?

I created this series to be about the stories embedded in the places we enter and fragments of time—where the heroic deeds of men and women are recorded. Where athletes across the pages of history made their mark.

Most importantly it’s about the mark those places made on us.

Each stadium, arena, field, or artifact holds a different story, but stories that are meant to be shared..

For some of us, it shaped certain chapters of our lives. For others they’re still writing new chapters with the passing of each season. Each chapter filled with a different memory.

Some of those memories transport us—back to a different time, a different version of ourselves.

Some memories are filled with the rush of adrenaline when victory was captured. The sights and sounds reminding you that you couldn’t believe what you just saw. Memories that had us holding our collective breath just before a ball went soaring into the night signaling a walk-off win after 9 see-saw innings or waiting for the ball to sail through the uprights as time expired.

Other times those memories are marked by the sting of missed opportunities and the quiet ache of what could have been. The agony of seeing a ball roll between the legs of your first baseman that would have secured the win. A mis-handled long snap where the opposing team returned the loose ball for a game clinching win right at the close of regulation.

Collecting Coliseums brings together my lifelong love of sports and my former obsession with collecting—now blended into a craft that became a business.

It’s where relics from past and present are contained within a hand-turned pen.

Pens to use or display. Pens that help us remember or start conversations.

Pens encapsulating the moments from our past, our love for our team, and history itself.

Pens you can add to your own collecting obsession, gift away, or unlock long forgotten or faded core memories.

We’ll explore the soul of each creation, each coliseum.

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🔍 What to Expect

In each episode we’ll start with…

• A short intro to the stadium
• then we’ll take a deep dive into its architecture and history
• From there we’ll explore the team legacy, iconic moments, player profiles, and more interesting facts and figures.
• I’ll then give you a brief profile of a pen I turned from that venue…
• And we’ll reflect on what it means to carry history forward

Each new virtual visit will dive into stories about the great sports coliseums from the likes of Dodger Stadium, Wrigley Field, Bryant-Denney Stadium, The Big House, Lambeau Field and more.

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🔁 Outro

If you’re drawn to the idea of carrying history—of holding something that once belonged to the energy of a stadium—I’d love to show you what’s possible.

💬 I also want to hear from you. What collections do you keep? What stories of stadiums do you have to share? I’d love to feature your story on an upcoming episode. Just send me an email to [email protected]

📣 You can follow 467 Woodworking on Facebook, Instagram, and Pinterest for build journals and behind-the-scenes content, and every episode of your new favorite podcast.

🌐 and you’re invited to explore everything we have to offer at 467woodworking.com—from certified collectible pens to faith-filled decor and DIY kits, to functional and artistic handmade home goods.

A new story. Your story. My story, and the places that invite us into

Collecting Coliseums. One venue. One pen. One story at a time.