Origins of Centerpost Pens and Crafts
Centerpost Pens and Crafts is named after a very special community in North-West, Georgia. Located in Walker County, at the foot of Pigeon Mountain, Centerpost community has been lost on most maps. The memories of this precious place continues to live in the minds of my family. The man who built the house above, my Grandfather, knew the value of fine wood. He kept lumber drying in the rafters of the outbuildings for use throughout the years. Much of the household furniture was built with lumber cut out of the woods behind the house.
Grandfather traded a portion of his wood for the services of the sawyer. I treasure a table built from Black Walnut taken from the woods in which my father and aunt played as children. The same woods in which my cousins and I rode the horse tree, picked Muscadines and Scuppernongs. The non-standard board widths and saw marks make this table unique, truly one of a kind, just like the crafts of Centerpost Pens and Crafts, made with a love and respect for natural beauty and texture while continuing a connection to my grandparents and the community of Centerpost.
If you have questions, see something you like, don't see something you would like to see, connect by pressing the email button above. Maybe you have an idea for a pen that would be your personal keepsake. Possibly you have some wood from an old barn or a tree or a house which has special memories for you. Two beautiful and special pens were made from a Black Walnut limb which had fallen during a wind storm. Several pens were made from lumber cut and milled from a friend’s farm and used to build their barn. Another was made from an eighty-year-old fence post from a coworker’s Grandfather’s farm.
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