David Rees thinks he knows how to sharpen pencils. He says people have entrusted 1,500 pencil points to his sharpening business. I know a little something about working with sharp pencils, and let me ...

How often do you consider the pencil? Barely registers on your scale of mildly interesting objects, you say? For shame! You and I know that without the pencil, it would be difficult to come to the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. David Rees, the man behind the popular political comic Get Your War On, ...

“How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening” (Melville House, $19.95), by David Rees, is not your average book about pencil sharpening. In ...

Two things I spotted at the recent pencil party I attended made me drool: a Palomino long-point handheld pencil sharpener (I had not known that a handheld pencil sharpener could be anything but a toy; ...

Hand-cranked pencil sharpeners work just fine, and maybe that is what makes them a perfect object to get the heavy duty treatment. And if a nitro pencil sharpener wasn't enough for you, YouTuber Giaco ...