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How can one sharpen a carpenter’s pencil? The International Arrivals sharpener didn’t quite seem to do it. Here is another attempt. From Keson, it is a bright yellow plastic block with four blades. The pencil is placed in a slot (blue plastic) and one slides the pencil back and forth, the wood being sliced away. [...] The carpenter pencil has a claim on being the original pencil. The oldest known existing woodcase pencil is a carpenter pencil, seen here at the Faber-Castell website. This pencil type is defined by the rectangular lead and housing. Why the shape? The resistance to rolling off a sloped roof is the best explanation I’ve heard. [...] So what is a “leadholder”? The shrine is at leadholder.com. My abbreviated nutshell summary is that they are simple mechanical holders for wide diameter leads. Wide usually means 2 millimeters (mm) or more. Today, there are three common wide lead diameters – 2mm, 3.15mm, and 5.6mm. If you aren’t familiar with these writing implements – [...] From Eberhard Faber comes a delightful extension to the familiar multiplication table pencil – a geometry pencil featuring basic formulas – the area of a triangle, the volume of a sphere, etc. The pencil is seen posing on the book Geometry by Lang and Murrow. My thanks to Gunther from Lexikaliker for sending me this [...] It is a pleasure to present the solution to Get The Lead Out! Get The Lead Out! is an original pencil-themed crossword puzzle by Barrel of a Pencil. It has been a delight to host this puzzle. Thank you, Barrel. SOLUTION (PDF format) My thanks to isu for linking “Globe” with “Chikyu”. Here are some vintage Chikyu 8380 pencils. You can observe the globe logo. The pencils are bound in twine, and enclosed in a cardboard box. Though 2H is too hard a grade for my typical pencil use, they were difficult to resist. I’m not going to [...] |
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