God Bless these workers and the Weissenborn family for producing such a simple, wonderful tool. KAGA.
God Bless these workers and the Weissenborn family for producing such a simple, wonderful tool. KAGA.
The pencils we use at work are made in Vietnam, they break easy and have plastic erasers(!?) which only smudge when you try to erase with them.
Wow, that one guy has been working for them for 47 years. Unreal. I was 8 when he first started. And I like this quote “Even as other factories have chased higher profit margins overseas”....Does the left understand what that does and why companies are given tax breaks so the JOBS stay here? Finally we got tax cuts and the economy is on rocket fuel, lowest black unemployment ever and the left completely loses their sht over it. If we had an honest media they would point out how the left has ZERO interest in the well being of the average US citizen. All these millionaire elitist snobs constantly bashing Trump while they sit on their ass all day leeching off the hard work of other people.
The tools and methods of production at this factory seem very primitive. They have not updated anything in 40 years.
I have seen videos of record-pressing plants where the record presses can be controlled and adjusted from an iPad, so it is certainly possible to modernize old processes.
As a companion piece, I present I, Pencil, an essay by Leonard Reid on how economics really works as told by a humble pencil.
http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/rdPncl1.html
Somehow the weird movie ERASERHEAD popped into mind.
Getting a new pencil and stepping up to the wall mounted crank sharpener and putting a new point on a Ticonderoga was kind of a treat in grade school...
Several years ago, I bought a 4-dozen box of Ticonderoga #2 pencils on close out at a big box office supply for something like 99¢. They’ll probably last for the rest of this lifetime.
The only episode of “You Asked For It” that’s embedded in my head from the 1950’s is the one where they explained how they got the lead in the pencil. NEVER occurred to me that pencils were glued together and paint covered the joins.
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Many years ago I was CFO of a company that owned a pencil factory. A production company from Hollywood rented it out to shoot a movie. Lemon, Durning and a few other well known actors. It was about the owner, in the 40’s molesting a female. Damn, don’t remember the title.
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DON’T run with the pencil in your pocket.
If the point is UP you may trip and put an eye out or stab yourself in the throat.
(OR whatever excuse they made up)
NOTHING worse than too sharp a point and it breaks while you are writing....
Think of this is reminding me of the INK pens that you had to fill...
After a while, a nice white shirt would end up with a blue or black stain..
Plus the ‘forever’ ink stain on ones fingers....
Cheap pen or sloppy operator???
I’ve always wondered how they managed to put that fragile piece of graphite inside the wood. Now I know .... I can cross that off my bucket list.
Nice article...