In a departure from normal pencil-related programming, I want to share a project I've been working on to develop analog photograp...

"You wouldn't trust an electric machine to deliver your baby; why would you trust one to sharpen your pencil?"  David Re...

I recently stumbled across a new category of pencil: the music writing pencil.  I have been brushing up on jazz music theory and n...

I love vintage pencils.  Sure, there are the famous old pencils, but there are literally hundreds if not thousands of lesser known pencils m...

I'll admit it...writing a full page with a pen stresses me out...I know I'm going to have to strike out at least one mistake--...

A bright pink vintage pencil that competes with Eberhard Faber's Blackwing 602 -- is this possible?  I hadn't even heard of th...

The pencil-of-justice is a no-name yellow number 2 that looks like it had been sharpened by an inebriated beaver. Recently, I got t...