It's time to sharpen your knowledge of pencil history! (Bet you can't guess what the first erasers were made of.) ...

C.H. Hanson® introduces its new SharpDraw® Mechanical Pencil extending its broad line of marking tools for carpentry professionals. Great for carpenters, framers, cabinet makers, woodworkers and ...

We asked 12 professional artists about the pencils they use for sketching, doodling, laying out, and putting the finishing touches on their artwork. Their picks include Staedtler, BIC Mechanical ...

A mechanical pencil doesn’t require sharpening and is always the same length, ... So the “lead” (actually graphite) is separable from the handle.

Since both mechanical pencils and the regular kind contain similar “lead” (a combination of graphite and clay), the primary decision here comes down to whether you’d prefer your kids buy ...

1. There is no risk of lead poisoning if you stab yourself (or someone else) with a pencil because it contains no lead — just a mixture of clay and graphite. Still, pencil wounds carry a risk of ...

The pencils are graded by their ratio of graphite to clay. Grades ranged from 9B to 2H, where H denotes the hardness caused by the pencil’s clay content, and B denotes the blackness due to the ...