The Texas Legislature’s 2025 session gavels out in a little less than three weeks — operating word there being “gavel.” Those ...

As clips of Texas lawmakers breaking gavels go viral on social media, the Statesman set about to find out where they're made.

Over the years, House gavels have been made in different sizes with different materials. The current design is made of maple and has a lacquer finish and accent lines burned into the wood.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“While AOC personnel in the Carpentry Section are capable of crafting gavels, and have done so for years, much of the wood that is recovered from Capitol campus trees is unsuitable for that use ...

But he let Congress, and the world, know how he felt about the situation with a slam of the wooden gavel as he adjourned for a recess. And then, as if the impact of his slam startled him ...