If the pen is truly mightier than the sword, the Lynch's may be the strongest family in Lawrence county Ohio.

Mark, wife Ginny and daughter Brandie, are the artisans behind Lynch Pens an Ironton-based business that makes wooden pens that are not only to be used, but treasured.

Mark began turning pens at a class he took given by Woodcraft, Inc. in Richmond, Va. in early 2004. He then taught his wife and daughter the trade. Since those days they have tried different things and ideas that have lead them to the creations they produce today. As the product caught on at craft shows they attended, the Lynch's hit on the idea of using others' wood to create sentimental pens. Now Lynch Pens will turn most any piece of wood into a pen, from 150-year-old-bedpost, to a tobacco stick once used in the tobacco drying process, to log's from a very old log home, even wood from mahogany church pew's.

Though most of Lynch Pens sales comes from craft shows and word of mouth, their pens are also sold at Empire Books and News, Pullman Square in Huntington, WVa.

At Lynch Pens we are true artists, less concerned about turning a proffit than turning out a quality product.

Life is too short to own an ordinary pen!