Photographs from America's last pencil factory........

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January 14, 2018, 08:13 AM

sidss1

Photographs from America's last pencil factory........

The NYTimes had an article about the last factory in the USA that is still manufacturing pencils. The photography is great.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/0...s.html?smid=pl-share

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January 14, 2018, 09:48 AM

flesheatingvirus

I was always a 0.5mm mechanical pencil guy, but those are some cool photos. I hope that place stays around as long as possible. We need to get that guy in the photo past 50 years!

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January 14, 2018, 10:01 AM

lastmanstanding

One of the saddest sights I have ever seen was the old Cannon textile mill being demolished in Kannapolis N.C the place was massive. Really brought home the decline of American manufacturing.

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January 14, 2018, 10:03 AM

justjoe

Henry David Thoreau's family owned a pencil factory, and Thoreau himself made some innovations to the production of pencils that made them more competitive with the pencils from England (which were universally regarded as the best). For one thing, he ground the graphite into a much finer powder than ever, so that it hung in the air inside the grinder, then he skimmed that airborne powder off and compressed it into the cores for use in the pencils. This made a pencil that wrote much more smoothly, without the scratching and skipping of the cruder graphite.

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January 14, 2018, 10:22 AM

JALLEN

Pencil manufacturing is/was often used as an example in Economics courses of all the various processes and ingredients necessary to make a pencil, which none of us could make, economically or at all, on our own.

It’s good to know those old profs weren’t just making that up.

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January 14, 2018, 12:34 PM

FenderBender

quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
Pencil manufacturing is/was often used as an example in Economics courses of all the various processes and ingredients necessary to make a pencil, which none of us could make, economically or at all, on our own.

It’s good to know those old profs weren’t just making that up.

January 14, 2018, 12:56 PM

tacfoley

Good post and very interesting. although we have a couple of pencil makers here in UK, Cumberland is one, and another I can't rightly recall, THE pencil maker is still Staedtler in Germany.

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January 14, 2018, 02:15 PM

downtownv

This old Brick building has been converted to Luxury "lofts" if you ever entered the Holland tunnel from NJ to NYC it is located on the Northside of the tunnel (1 Block but large)

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