Archive for July, 2007

Announcement: August is New Zealand/Australia pencil month!

Monday, July 30th, 2007

It’s with great excitement that I am able to announce New Zealand/Australia pencil month here at paper and pencil. Thanks to Dave at Dave’s Mechanical Pencils, I have a nice assortment of woodcase pencils from Auckland, New Zealand. None of them are generally available in North America, so this will definitely be of interest to […]

Dixon Tri-Conderoga pencil.

Saturday, July 28th, 2007

This past month was the first time I had seen the Dixon Tri-Conderoga for sale in Canada. I was quite happy to find a package of six with an accompanying sharpener at a local store.
The package had NAFTA-friendly trilingual (English, French, Spanish) labelling, and revealed that the pencils were made in Mexico. The two-hole sharpener […]

Staedtler pencil holder 900 25.

Monday, July 16th, 2007

Here is an interesting new type of pencil extender, inspired by the mechanical pencil.
While I’ve mentioned pencil extenders previously, this product is a decidedly new take on the idea.
At first glance, it looks like a fancy mechanical pencil, with a retractable eraser, clip, adjustable window for displaying the pencil grade, and a very […]