As I type, a one-toothed banjo player with a bushy white beard and a smile a mile wide appears lost in his mountain music. Next to him, an old woman sporting a polka dot apron and a neat bun in her ...

THURMONT, Md. (AP) -- Joe Stebbing started out carving wood the old-fashioned way. With chisels and a mallet. Trouble was, it took about three months to make a single carving. Stebbing, a plumber by ...

When Yee Ying Hou first launched TeenyHands, it was with the core purpose of empowering parents to nurture happy children. How so, you may ask? By producing handmade wooden miniatures intended to ...

Yukihiro Akama, who trained as an architect, now designs whimsical pieces in oak, fir and other varieties. By Melanie Abrams Reporting from London In 2013 Yukihiro Akama found some small blocks of oak ...

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Many artists have used pencils to create works of art - but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils Credit: DALTON GHETTI / SOLENT NEWS Dalton, who works as a carpenter, ...