Anyone who works in wood can tell you most carpentry gigs require access to a handful of tools with obvious, if vital, uses. One that's particularly easy to overlook is the woodworking pencil. After ...

The whole point of a mechanical pencil is to have perfect sharpness forever. Yet without precise engineering and build quality, the standard slender leads are doomed to constant breakages. This ...

Leave your laptop, smartphone and stylus at the door. Nestled on Orchard Street in New York’s Lower East Side, a small store specialises in what some might call a dying medium: pencils. The shop, CW ...