A carpenter's pencil is the right tool for many DIY jobs, due to its shape and ease of use. Avoid a common mistake when sharpening it for safety and accuracy.

The carpenter pencil is more than a pencil; it’s an all-purpose marking instrument, a spacer, a scribing tool, and the perfect accompaniment to a tape measure.

For years, the knife was the most commonly used tool to sharpen the wooden writing instrument known as a pencil (which historians believe was invented in the 15th or 16th century). But whittling ...

Pencils are an important part of home improvement and DIY projects. If you find yourself without a sharpener, use this handy item to sharpen yours.

It’s just such a nice little object. It’s reassuringly weighty while still light enough to carry everyday. It has one job: it ...

C.H Hanson’s Pro-Sharp Finishing Pencil Carpenter may seem like a spoof from the pages of Mad Magazine, but it is in fact a real product. And better — as we shall see — it is a real product ...

Allow him to be blunt. Artisanal pencil sharpener David Rees explains why he's packing up his pencil case and quitting the business.

Collect your pencil shavings in style with this sharpener jar by Craighton Berman Studio.

The pencil sharpener that started it all: maintenance workers with the Toronto District School Board charged taxpayers $143 to install it at Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate. Moira Welsh / Toronto ...

Before John Lee Love’s invention, it was difficult to sharpen pencils. The rotary blade sharpeners were the ones in vogue. They were positioned on walls and to sharpen a pencil, one would have ...