Inside one of the Last US Pencil Factories

[RunForTheRoses]

Interesting article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/12/magazine/inside-one-of-americas-last-pencil-factories.html

http://www.generalpencil.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ERbC7JyCfU

[Fred Mertz]

I enjoyed your thread and the video.

We do take things for granted sometimes.

[dlivery]

But seems logical to assume we are doing this on a daily basis

I have been a some what good at pencils and forms and it works for me.

One thing about a pencil you can rely on when needed:popcorn::puke:

[barahona44]

I remember in 6th or 7th grade (1965-66 or thereabouts), we saw a short movie in class about a loaf of bread and the hundreds of interactions needed to get bread on your table.Not just the obvious ones like farm/bakery/store but more subtle ones like the ink printed on the bread bag and the cash registers to ring up the sale.Pretty good tribute to the free enterprise system.

[Tom]

But seems logical to assume we are doing this on a daily basis

I have been a some what good at pencils and forms and it works for me.

One thing about a pencil you can rely on when needed:popcorn::puke:

NASA spend $million to develop a pen that would write upside down in zero gravity.
RUSSIA gave the cosmonauts pencils.