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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When I was growing up, my parents always used a knife to sharpen their pencils. Whittling off the wood casing in that manner resulted in rough cuts and the lead point was blunt. My parents were frugal ...