MILTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Some things just click. For Gary Walz, that thing is woodworking. “I’ve been a woodworker my whole life since I was a kid. I got to do some lathe work when I was in high school ...

The world of wood lathes is a complex one, offering everything from small benchtop models designed to turn intricate pens, to large commercial tools for making chair legs and giant platters. We’ve ...

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.

Or one in Brazilian ebony for extending birthday greetings? Maybe, one in desert ironwood for winter postcards extolling the Arizona sunshine? The Mesa man turns these woods and others on his lathe, ...