The Leadhead's Pencil Blog

This article has been included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 7, now available  here . If you don't want the book but you enjo...

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...

I’ll always have a soft spot for Oscar Tweeten’s bowling score pencils, since one of the first articles I wrote here was about them -- see h...

As far as Oscar Tweeten's bowling pencil goes, Skip Nemecek and I are neck-and-neck in the race for who's the most excited to learn ...

When Michael McNeil and I had agreed on a price for a large group of pencils he was interested in selling, what had me camped out at the mai...

Skip Nemecek, the president of Tweeten Fibre Co., was kind enough to email me a link to a picture of our man Oscar Tweeten (see "The Tw...

Janet and I decided on a much-needed weekend getaway after The Catalogue went to the printer, so we booked a room at the lodge in Salt Fo...