The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

I cringe and smile at the same time when I reread articles that posted during the first year here at the blog. The writing was crude – most ...

This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 6, now on sale at The Legendary Lead Company.  I have jus...

This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 4; copies are available print on demand through Amazon  h...

This article has been edited and included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 4; copies are available print on demand through Amazon  h...

Solving the Selfeed puzzle was one of my proudest moments. Not only was the long-lost history of who made these pencils finally brought to ...

Today’s story started for me a few weeks ago when I found this pencil at the Springfield Antique Show.  When I pulled it out of a dollar jun...