The Pencil Primer returns with part three: the other end of the pencil. We trace the eraser from stale bread crumbs to Goodyear's vulcanized rubber to Hymen Lipman's well-timed patent sale, then get into ferrules — wartime plastic ones, the Blackwing's famous clip, and why American pencils wear erasers while Japanese and German ones mostly don't. But first: Andy falls down a Carter Family rabbit hole, Johnny finds a forest green ink and an all-black Musgrave Ceres, and Tim awaits Blackwing's new Telecaster pencil.
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Show Notes & Links
The brief and fascinating history of WWII-era pencil ferrules
Telephone pencils in action — pencils with a tip for dialing rotary phones
Your Hosts
Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
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Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
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Tim Wasem
@TimWasem