How Pencils Are Made
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Published 2023-07-19
Then, graphite sticks wrapped in string were used for writing purposes. Later, the graphite was inserted into hollowed-out wooden sticks and, thus, the wood-cased pencil was born. Even in our increasingly high-tech world, each year roughly 2 billion low-tech pencils are sold in the U.S. and 14 billion are sold worldwide.
So how are pencils made in factories?
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All Comments (21)
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When I was a kid, I thought that they drilled holes into the wood and pushed the lead in. I would carefully remove the wood off of a pencil lead then shape a new piece of wood, drill a hole in it so I could make my own pencils. It never worked out too well. I also used to carefully cut open burnt lightbulbs, reattached the filament, then try to draw out the air and seal them back up. That too never worked out too well. But some would work at a much lower voltage. The few times I "sort of" succeeded in my experiments would be the highlights of my days. I guess you could say I always tried to reinvent the wheel. đ
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When I was a kid, my mom gave me my own hand crank pencil sharpener. I was SOOOOOO happy. To this day, there's nothing more gratifying than sharpening a pencil.
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Itâs hard to believe that when my dad started school in 1941, he got a small 4â piece of a pencil that my grandfather would put a hole at the end and put a string though it and hang it on my dads neck. That pencil was supposed to last the entire school year, because they were so hard to come by and so expensive. Itâs amazing how abundant and cheap they are that kids but dozens of them during back to school shopping these days.
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This factory is located in Pencil-Vania!
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In the digital age it pleases me to know so many of us are still using pencils. I have hundreds and use them every day but I'm a sucker for a new sets.
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i saw in a cartoon that they put a whole tree through a grinder to make a single toothpick. Glad this works better.
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Many pencils are equipped with erasersâŠwhich are designed to smear the paper irreversibly, rip holes where you donât want them, or have no effect on the graphite line at allâŠ.
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Pencils are just so amazing and simple, love their feel
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I still write a grocery list to take to the store. And I write myself little notes on "sticky notes" to remind me to do things. I love me some pencils. I'm still using round Magic Muffler pencils, from a So. Cal. muffler shop, found in my dad's shop when he passed. I cherish those pencils because the remind me of dad, and of the "old days" when every Magic Muffler shop had one or more '56 Chevy's.
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A short pencil is better than a long memory
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My first job was at Reeves Industrial Equipment, Orlando Florida. I was 21, in college evenings and and worked during the day. One of the engineering projects we did was a pencil yellow paint machine @4:20 we did for Berol Co. In Mexico. Its exactly like the one shown. There's paint in the hopper one pencil is always in the hopper. A chain with push tabs pushes one after another. Then onto a 100 foot belt conveyor to dry. Then back into the pencil hopper for another coat of paint. This is repeated 6 times. Brings back memories. Now I'm retired from a vast machine design experience.
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Who would have thunk something we take got granted, something so utterly simple as the lowly pencil would take such an involved process to make???
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A Pencil, writing history for 172 years and still growing.
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A personal handheld wooden enclosed graphite scribing device is a good tool
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Have always wondered how they were made.Very interesting.
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I kept braking my mechanical pencils so I started buying wood pencils and itâs been the best decision yet. â€
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what really amazes me is that someone had to invent all those machines to make the pencil, wow!
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So what's your best selling pencil? "The number 2" OK, what's your second best selling pencil? "The number 1" OK... Have you ever considered renaming them?
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The hexagon shape stops it from rolling, that's so adorable!
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I used to work in a pencil factory.they have sure changed the way they make them.
