MOSS POINT, Mississippi -- A love for woodworking and a need of a community organization led a Moss Point man to begin working his lathe. Jerold Shepherd, a member and twice past-president of the ...

BALTIC – It’s hard to believe a small workshop on an Amish farm just within Coshocton County can produce as many as 700 pens per year. It’s even harder to believe that it’s all the work of one man.

The pens Michael Hughes creates are something to write home about. Working with a lathe in the workshop he built above the garage at his Grandview home, Hughes uses traditional materials such as wood, ...

MODESTO — For more than a decade, Ceres resident Jim Gollnick has been sending a handcrafted piece of home to troops serving overseas. Gollnick, 70, creates elegant pens made of pink ivory wood, ...

Most of the pens are made from wood that's at least three-quarter-inch by three-quarter-inch by 6 inches. He drills a hole through the center of two pieces, inserts and glues a brass tube to hold the ...