Diamondback
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I'm rusty on AutoCAD and OK on SketchUp, but really need to start looking for something like SolidWorks. Should we take this to PM?
MrNewportCustom said:Lietz sharpener (they're called "lead pointers"?) and Pickett lead holder. I took a semester of drafting in my freshman year in high school (1977). The instructor must have been in the market for a new set-up, because at the end of the semester he gave these to me. His name and SS# are etched onto the bottom. More of that crinkle finsh I love.
Lee
dhermann1 said:Eberhard Faber Blackwings! Again, this is why we love the Lounge! Thanks, Bern! I believe the family that made these in Germany are wealthy nobility and own a very spectacular castle. So they're not made any more? They were really like Mercedes Benz pencils. It was just a pleasure to hold them in your hand. The black paint was gorgeous, the lead was soft and smooth but didn't smudge. My grandmother used them till they were nubbins.
Diamondback said:Y'all just made me remember a Space Race anecdote.
The problem: how to write in zero-g? A regular ballpoint won't work, needs gravity to feed the ink.
NASA spends umpteen million dollars to develop the famous Fisher Space pen, an elegantly engineered (overengineered, some say) solution to the problem.
The Russians? Just used pencils instead.
Just struck me as related and humorous.
dhermann1 said:All these mentions of mechanical pencils reminded me of one that I have in the family archives:
That belonged to my great grandmother, Hattie M. Lewis. Here's how the pencil tucks into the book:
invention13 said:a Pelikan M800 fountain pen.
dhermann1 said:Eberhard Faber Blackwings! Again, this is why we love the Lounge! Thanks, Bern! I believe the family that made these in Germany are wealthy nobility and own a very spectacular castle. So they're not made any more? They were really like Mercedes Benz pencils. It was just a pleasure to hold them in your hand. The black paint was gorgeous, the lead was soft and smooth but didn't smudge. My grandmother used them till they were nubbins.
Cal Cedar produces a growing range of pencils for our OEM and Private Label customers in our Propen facility in Laem Chabang, Thailand.