Have you ever wondered where those funny pencils with a #2 and a fraction pencils fit into the hardness/softness scale of pencils? These are your #2 1/2s, your F grades. Today, we explore that funny little half-grade that exists between HB and H, between #2 and #3. Plus a Snapchat update from Tim, gifts for Johnny, and a plea to Blackwing from Andy.
Show Notes & Links
The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance, by Henry Petroski
L.L. Bean Field Notes
General’s Kimberly
Staedtler Mars Lumograph 100
Dixon Ticonderoga #2.5/F
Toni Morrison and Pencils
Mixed Grade Palominos
Blackwing Colors
Wes Anderson’s Pencils | Pencil Revolution
Let’s bring women and people of color to the Blackwing Volumes editions | Woodclinched
Blackwing diversity | Pencil Revolution
Diversity? Schmercity | Comfortable Shoes Studio
It’s just pencils! Or is it? | The Weekly Pencil
Craft Design Technology plastic fountain pen | Amazon
Paper-Ya in Vancouver
Yoobi: i am OTHER
Your Hosts
Johnny Gamber
Pencil Revolution
@pencilution
Andy Welfle
Woodclinched
@awelfle | @woodclinched