Welcome to Pencil-vania....where you never have to "Get The Lead Out"!

[Meanderer]

How Pencils Are Made
Making pencils is an intense process.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[Pinky]

How Pencils Are Made
Making pencils is an intense process.

Fascinating! I used to watch a Channel that showed how things were manufactured. Forget what it was called though.

 

[Meanderer]

 

[hollydolly]

Fascinating! I used to watch a Channel that showed how things were manufactured. Forget what it was called though.

We get one called ''How it's Made'' might be the same one

 

[RadishRose]

That was fun!


"Pencil-vania"
OMG, this reminds me of my uncle Pete in PA who teased me terribly about me living in CT and therefore not having any pencils, like they did. I was probably about 6.

 

[Treacle]

Love watching how things are made @Meanderer. Thank you for the video re: pencils. Who worked out the HB? - know that H is the hardness and B is the blackness. But I wonder who established the 'category' for pencils

Think setting up videos/information on how things are made/manufactured would be an interesting post.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Meanderer]

Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Country in 1762. [better source needed] It is said [by whom?] that William Munroe, a cabinetmaker in Concord, Massachusetts, made the first American wood pencils in 1812. This was not the only pencil-making occurring in Concord.

 

[Treacle]

Benjamin Franklin advertised pencils for sale in his Pennsylvania Gazette in 1729, and George Washington used a three-inch pencil when he surveyed the Ohio Country in 1762. [better source needed] It is said [by whom?] that William Munroe, a cabinetmaker in Concord, Massachusetts, made the first American wood pencils in 1812. This was not the only pencil-making occurring in Concord.

Thanks for the info @Meanderer will look further with what you have provided. Always want to learn , so so interesting.

 

[Meanderer]

Wysox, Pennsylvania: Giant Pencil

"I've driven past this a number of times and finally stopped to take a picture. Apparently it's a utility pole carved and painted to resemble a giant pencil. It could use a little paint. It looks like someone's been chewing on it".
[Jason Wait, 01/01/2016]


Giant Pencil

"The utility pole may have been carved at one point but what I saw was a giant pencil next to the utility pole. Its point has deteriorated; seems to be paired with a regular utility pole and lingers for pencil sentimentality".
[Karen, 08/25/2019]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[PamfromTx]

 

[Meanderer]

The Write Stuff: How the Humble Pencil Conquered the World (LINK)
From sticks of graphite wrapped in string to mechanical pencils made of gold, centuries of innovation went into crafting the perfect writing utensil.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Meanderer]

 

[jujube]

Cedar Key, Florida supplied much of the cedar for pencils made by the J. Eberhard Faber company (and other pencil manufacturers). At one time Faber was making more than 500 kinds of pencil from Cedar Key cedar. Unfortunately, nobody was replanting so between devastation of the cedars and a massive hurricane that about wiped Cedar Key off the map, that was the end of supplying wood for the pencil companies. They had to turn to California for their cedar.

 

[jujube]

Now here's a BIG pencil.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[jujube]

Was anyone here a "pencil chewer" in school? I sure was. Open my pencil box and it looked like a gang of over-achieving beavers had been at work.

 

[Treacle]

Love this post @Meanderer, funnies and all. Just need to go through all the info. So so interesting. Am I a 'Nerd'?
My friend attended the Royal Academy of Arts and did such wonderful drawings in pencil. This is not his work but a video he sent.

 

[Pappy]

 

[Meanderer]