The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

This year’s Philadelphia Show in January yielded a few more updates to A Field Guide to Sheaffer’s Pencils: That top pencil probably belonge...

 The last few weeks here at the blog have been intense. Time and time again I have started what I thought would be a simple article, and tim...

I have known about these pencils for years, but it wasn’t until the last year or so before I finally acquired one.  All that I remember is t...

In addition to writing books and articles, between 2014 and 2016 I served a three-year stint as editor of the Pennant, journal of the Pen Co...