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 ...

The author of a book on how to sharpen pencils, Rees has been conducting pencil-sharpening workshops across the country. He showed Rocca a modern reproduction of an antique pencil sharpener ...

How do you sharpen a pencil artisanally? It depends on what the client is looking for. The pencil point for someone who wants to draw a still life might not be right for a writer.

Is How to Sharpen Pencils a joke? Well, was it a joke when, in the summer of 2011, Brooklyn-based Mast Brothers Chocolate announced it would be getting its coming year’s supply of cocoa (20 tons ...

"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 ...

A good makeup pencil sharpener can be a life saver, but what if your pencil breaks in a pinch? If you can't imagine going day or night without a perfectly pointy lip pencil, this one is for you.

“ How to Sharpen Pencils ” is by artisinal pencil sharpener David Rees. “With an electric pencil sharpener, a pencil is meat,” Rees told The Times in 2010, before his book was completed.

David Rees, comedian and creator of the much loved Get Your War On cartoons in Rolling Stone, is out with a new book, How to Sharpen Pencils. It is both a manifesto and fully illustrated guide to ...