A wood turner in Cape Breton makes handcrafted pens from reclaimed wood, and offers customers one-of-a-kind keepsakes.
Fay Wambolt is the owner of Full Circle Wood Turning. She says the local, repurposed wood is what makes her pens unique.
Wambolt said she has wood from Sydney Steel, Holy Angels High School, Senator Mongomery’s house in Prince Edward Island and church pews from decommissioned churches in Cape Breton. Some samples come from further abroad, including a piece from a bog in Ukraine that is more than 5,400 years old.
“The reclaimed lumber idea came from when my father was alive he worked at the steel plant and he would come home with maple stakes used on the rails in his lunchbox,” Wambolt said. “Some of those maple stakes were still lying around our garage after my father had passed away.”
When Wambolt started pen turning she used the maple to make …