Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 ...

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 ...

Where creativity meets craftsmanship! Andy Phillip brings wood to life, shaping, sculpting, and finishing pieces that highlight the finest natural details.

How to make 6-sided solid wood pencils. A brand new jig and technique invented by Andrew Klein that allows anybody with a few basic woodworking tools to make hexagon pencils out of scrap wood.

cut grooves into the wood, apply glue to them." Round pencils still exist, as do triangular and [shudders] rectangular "carpenter" pencils. However, hexagonal pencils have come to dominate the ...

commissioned by art class provider Art-K, fewer children are able to use scissors or grip pencils properly. Some teachers fear that children will not able to access creative parts of the ...