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 ...

Times must be tough for David Rees. The author and political cartoonist behind works such as Get Your War On started a second job in summer 2010, selling hand-sharpened writing implements—complete ...

“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 ...

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 ...

The event promised a tutorial on pencil-sharpening techniques both novel and advanced, and that’s what the audience got. “This,” said London, pointing at the apron, “says baking cookies.” “It’s my ...

A lip liner can be a make-it-or-break-it tool in your everyday look, so when the tip crumbles or breaks, it can be a nightmare — especially if you don't have a lip pencil sharpener. Luckily, there are ...

In the barroom outside the shotgun performance hall at Pete's Candy Store, a woman's singing threatened to drown out a free lecture on artisanal pencil sharpening. "They're making an acetate record ...

Silly you. You probably think that sharpening pencils is a rote matter that involves little more than jamming a dull writing utensil into an automatic sharpener. Wrong. That’s like saying that Franzia ...

(CBS News) It's 30 days to Christmas, and over the coming weeks we'll be looking at intriguing holiday offerings, large and small. Even in our electronic age, the humble pencil is still very, very big ...

LONDON, Feb 22 (Reuters) - A guide to sharpening pencils and a craft manual about how tea cosies changed the world are among a shortlist of books released on Friday that are competing for the Oddest ...