The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

Step one: observe. Step two: compare those observations to what you know. Step three: draw reasonable conclusions. That process always serve...

I discussed this weird series of Eversharp pencils on page 152 in Eversharp: Cornerstone of an Industry: These share elements of the crown t...

Eversharp: Cornerstone of an Industry covers the Eversharp Bantam line of pencils on pages 294 to 296; it shows most of them, but it didn’t...

The Wahl Company got into the writing instrument industry backwards. While Parker, Sheaffer, and Waterman were fountain pen companies which ...

Even though I’m best known for my work with mechanical pencils, I do buy fountain pens when the occasion calls for it. The occasion called f...

After my flurry of purchases from Michael Krut at the Detroit Pen Show, Michael got to thinking. “I’ve got more pencils at home if you want ...