Experience the craftsmanship behind making a wooden judge gavel as a skilled artisan shapes and refines each piece. From start to finish, this video reveals every step of the process, showcasing ...

The Illinois Republican banged his wooden gavel hard enough to knock off its head, which landed between the clerks on the lower tier of the rostrum. In that era, House gavels commonly broke from ...

It was a unique treasure for both Jackson and ... In the 1980s, about 10 more gavels were made from the wood, and Roe said he gave several to friends and dignitaries. Roe said he has several ...

Although that isn’t the case, where the gavels come from might be surprising. State prisoners make every wooden gavel used in the Texas Capitol, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice ...

On display is the first available issue of a gavel created by local wood turner Bobbi Tornheim in the woodshop of Lexington Arts and Craft Society. It is made from bits of a giant sugar maple that ...

The wooden gavel – which once summoned the most unruly lawyers to order – has gone the way of the powdered wig. Judges rarely, if ever, wield a gavel in the city’s state and federal ...