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 ...

Here's how to sharpen and a lip pencil without a sharpener. I love a creamy, soft, buttery lip pencil that lasts all night. As coveted a formulation as that sounds, ...

"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 ...

Even then, while electric pencil sharpeners were around and used by large offices, this type of sharpener didn’t become widely available to the public until the 1940s. And the rest, as they say ...

David Rees, the man behind the popular political comic Get Your War On, wants to sharpen you a pencil. Slowly. Attentively. And with a carefully selected sharpener or blade that suits the pencil best.

To sharpen a carpenter's pencil after it becomes dull, simply scrape the tip against 220 to 350 grit sandpaper until you ...