Floyd Truitt is a woodcarver, but he has pinched nerves in his back and arm that are shackling his movements and making it difficult for him to carve these days. His carving began as a fun and ...

WASHINGTON — C.A. Savoy has gotten too good at making canes. “There’s a need. If there wasn’t, we wouldn’t be turning them,” said Savoy, a master woodworker from Fairfax County, Va. “When the kids ...

For the first time after a three-year Covid pandemic disruption, military members of a wood carving club presented eagle-headed, insignia-emblazoned walking canes to combat-wounded veterans. Roughly ...

Walking sticks have been a necessary tool ever since shepherds began tending sheep and needed a way to protect against thieves and keep the animals in line. Eventually, the walking stick became a ...