"Axe On A Log" Pencil Holder

"Axe On A Log" Pencil Holder FARM HOME Miscellaneous 29-3-22 "I've been making these æaxe on a log' pencil holders for at least 25 years. They're really popular. Over the years I'm sure I've made at least 16,000 of them," says Charley Pruitt, Bluefield, W. Va. The pencil holder consists of a small block of white pine with a wooden axe on top. The axe blade is made from black walnut and the handle from poplar. There are two holes on top of the stump, one at each end, for pens or pencils. Your name gets burned on front. Pruitt also makes another version shaped like a tree stump. He also builds a "stamp box" pencil holder that's made from either yellow pine, white pine, or poplar. A roll of stamps fits inside a hole in the wood block and is dispensed through a slot in one end of the block. A wooden flag that pivots on a screw keeps the stamps in. He also sells wooden ladybugs and bumblebees. All products are protected by two coats of polyurethane. The axe on a log pencil holder sells for $1.50 plus S&H; the stamp box for $1 plus S&H; and the ladybugs and bumblebees for $1.25 apiece plus S&H. Contact: Farm Show Followup, Charley Pruitt, Rt. 4, Box 224B, Bluefield, W. Va. 24701 (ph 304 248-7042; email: cwp480 @frontiernet.net).

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