PARKERSBURG, W. Va. – For the 15th year in a row, volunteer woodturners gathered at Woodcraft stores nationwide over Veterans Day weekend to make pens during the Turn for Troops National Turn-a-Thon.

Photo by Doug Loyer of Woodcraft Mike Collins, an accomplished woodturner who works at the Woodcraft store in Parkersburg, sands the wood smooth on a pen he is making on the lathe. He also is applying ...

Turning Point Pen Co. creates custom-designed pens. Each handcrafted writing piece can be made up of more than a dozen pieces.

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