Pencil Making Factory

[HandyDan]

Saw this on another site and thought some may want to start their projects from the absolute beginning.

https://videos.files.wordpress.com/j2zHKitx/pp-1_hd.mp4

More info at this page.

https://bridgecitytools.com/products/pp ... -precision

[Stick486]

jot this down..
700$ plus shipping for that w/o options...

[HandyDan]

jot this down..
700$ plus shipping for that w/o options...

So you're saying there are cheaper ways to put lead in your pencil?

[Cherryville Chuck]

Are hand made pencils (so to speak) suddenly in demand?

[HandyDan]

Are hand made pencils (so to speak) suddenly in demand?

No, but brains must be. Can't imagine them selling many.

[Herb Stoops]

Thanks, Dan, for posting that. It is simply amazing tooling. There is a lot of stuff in that kit.
Bridge city tools used to be an exorbitantly priced precision tool company,mostly sold to tool collectors. They started as manufacturing their own tools,then went to farming them out and then assembly only, and they sold out a few years ago to a Chinese company, and their prices dropped to about half. Their claim to fame was making limited number of an item and only after they had received orders for that amount they then put them into production.
Herb

[Biagio]

they sold out a few years ago to a Chinese company,

Good grief! Are Woodpeckers and L-N still US-owned and made? Is anything nowadays?

[Cherryville Chuck]

Both of those still operate on US soil Biagio. Lie Nielson is Maine and Woodpeckers is Ohio. Veritas is Lee Valley and made in Canada, probably in Ontario where the head office is. A little to a lot more money but you're getting quality and a guarantee that it is made right or they'll make it right. In 30 years I've only sent 2 things back to Lee Valley and they never questioned either time.

[Semipro]

I just had to check I can buy 320 sharpen # 2 for $25.00 divide that into $700,00 you could buy 8920 so to get your equipment paid for they have to sell for 15 cents now lets not forget material I think I will pass

[DaninVan]

Bloody Hell! I buy 6 paks of automatic .7mm pencils for about $5+. Same for the next size up.
https://www.staples.ca/products/583238- ... 07mm-6pack

[Herb Stoops]

Yeah, I couldn't see the feasibility of it any other than the fun of making your own pencils.I do admire the ingenuity in the tools though. Most of the tools that Bridge City makes are that way. anything they can make from them can be done with conventional tools and a lot cheaper, the chop stick maker comes to mind too. From what I have seen most of their customers are not woodworkers, more collectors of odd tools , that have more money than good sense.
Herb

[Stick486]

Bloody Hell! I buy 6 packs of automatic .7mm pencils for about $5+. Same for the next size up.
https://www.staples.ca/products/583238- ... 07mm-6pack

I like the Pentels P series and their Polymer leads...
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PENTEL PENCILS.jpg

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be golden and add Gel Pencil Grips...
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gel-grips.jpg

[Herb Stoops]

These are mine:
Herb

[Cherryville Chuck]

I like the .5mm mechanical pencils for woodworking if I need a fine line. I keep a marking knife close by for really fine lines. I read once that a knife line is around 1/25th to 1/50th as wide as a pencil line. For carpentry I use one similar to this one that I got at LV years ago. It looks like they are selling this one instead now:

[Stick486]

These are mine:
Herb

I have hundreds of those,,, all w/ advertising on them...
never had a need to buy one...

[Stick486]

I keep a marking knife close by for really fine lines

ditto...

[DaninVan]

Polymer leads?! I'd never heard of them; why didn't I get the memo?

[Nickp]

Polymer leads?! I'd never heard of them; why didn't I get the memo?

...it was written in disappearing "ink"...?

[DaninVan]

Polymer leads?! I'd never heard of them; why didn't I get the memo?

...it was written in disappearing "ink"...?

To be fair, I did get a harsh msg. telling me to get the lead out.

[Herb Stoops]

Polymer leads?! I'd never heard of them; why didn't I get the memo?

...it was written in disappearing "ink"...?

To be fair, I did get a harsh msg. telling me to get the lead out.

Is "Lead" really Lead"? it should be banned if it is. People lick the "Lead" when they write.
Herb

[Stick486]

Polymer leads?! I'd never heard of them; why didn't I get the memo?

you did... last I saw of it you had laid it down in your shop...

they do mark cleanly...
erase easily..
no smear..
strong...

[DaninVan]

"you did... last I saw of it you had laid it down in your shop..."

Well....That would certainly explain why i never saw it. *embarrassment*

[Stick486]

That would certainly explain why i never saw it.

it's been quite a few years (early 2014) since and you still haven't seen it???...

[Cherryville Chuck]

Polymer leads?! I'd never heard of them; why didn't I get the memo?

...it was written in disappearing "ink"...?

To be fair, I did get a harsh msg. telling me to get the lead out.

Is "Lead" really Lead"? it should be banned if it is. People lick the "Lead" when they write.
Herb

Not lead. Graphite. Maybe the graphite helps lube you up. I wonder if the people who can't shut up are in the habit of licking their pencil "leads"? Might explain why their jaw hinges seem to work so freely.

[Herb Stoops]

I think "Lead" must have came about when in the old west when the gunfighters used to take a cartridge out of their belt and mark on an old board for grave markers.
Herb

[roxanne562001]

That is pretty cool Dan but a little pricey for my blood. When I read the title all I could think of was this old cartoon about making toothpicks. LOLhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn4k2TPIJf0