We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Woodworking is one of the oldest professions around, and a surprisingly exciting modern hobby. Plenty of people have found themselves sitting ...

Maxpedition has long been considered a trailblazer in EDC pouches, organizers and backpacks. The company has been around more ...

Electric pencil sharpeners have grown in demand amongst students, creatives, and professionals who frequently use pencils. These tools offer a quick, efficient, and accurate sharpening process which ...

If you need to make a mark, finish a crossword, or just doodle a bit, this Blackwing sharpener proves its point. If you need to make a mark, finish a crossword, or just doodle a bit, this Blackwing ...

Artist Curtis Ingvoldstad poses next to the pencil sculpture he created from a damaged oak tree in John and Amy Higgins' yard in Minneapolis. AP Photo / Mark Vancleave When a windstorm damaged a large ...

John Higgins likes to think of the six-metre-tall pencil on his front lawn as a piece of pop art. "When you think of pop art, you think Andy Warhol or Claes Odenberg. I mean, these are these iconic ...

Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 pencil. The 20-foot-tall (6-meter-tall) pencil was sculpted out of a ...

MINNEAPOLIS – When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more ...

When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall and gets an annual public sharpening that draws crowds of more than 1,000 people. The giant pencil, known as LOTI ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Woodworking and carpentry without the proper tools can be time-consuming and just plain irritating. Marking tools are pretty much necessary ...

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 ...

ICHEON, Gyeonggi Province — How much can a pencil sharpener mean to its owner? In Kim Won-rae’s world, it means a lot. At his workshop in Icheon, outside Seoul, where he fixes sharpeners as old as ...