It all starts with an unassuming little block of olive wood. Leroy Armstrong stands that up on a drill press, scrunches his brow in deep concentration and lowers the bit down into the block. Tiny wood ...

For years, Jon Ortmann considered woodcrafting a hobby and nothing more. Then a friend asked him to create, or turn, a wooden pen. Before creating his first pen, Ortmann made larger wooden items like ...