“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 ...

Gone are the days when kids had to raise their hands, rise from their desks and walk to sharpen their pencils in the corner of the classroom. Granted, personal sharpeners definitely aren’t a fresh ...

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 ...

(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 ...

If you think artisanal pencil sharpening is a joke, you’re missing the point. David Rees, a cartoonist, humor writer and self-crowned pencil sharpening artisan, is on a mission to educate America with ...

Today’s “waste of plastic” award goes to two items. A tag-team of tat, if you will. In the red corner, we have the Top Gear V8 Pencil Sharpener, a product with such a dearth of features that one of ...

Never have a dull moment with a solid pencil sharpener. A classic option is a manual one with an old-school hand crank—once a staple of classrooms and art studios everywhere. While many people may opt ...

Sticking a pencil into the top lens of this tiny TLR camera feels like you're sticking a pointy stick in somebody's eye, but that's ok, as that's not really a lens. In fact, this isn't really a camera ...