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How Pencils are Made

By Rain Noe - August 9, 2011

in Object Culture

Pencils: Industrial designers start projects with them, cowards use them to complete crosswords. And while I'd like to see specifically inside the pencil factory that makes Berol Prismacolors, this look inside one of Staedtler's factories does nicely.

Their "How we make pencils" video is surprisingly entertaining and informative: Among other things, I didn't realize pencils were made in bricks, nor painted by being shot through tubes, and the way they're sharpened en masse at the end is unexpectedly cool.

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Jeff Bianco

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This was a very fun couple of minutes to watch. You might enjoy Henry Petroski's book THE PENCIL, that gives the history of the world from the perspective of graphite.
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