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A "New" Pencil
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Bill Wilson
This is Your Life...and we bet it will be a really good one because he works hard and really, really
03-02-2017, 08:11 AM
OK, I'm a sucker for a good pencil thread. I went to HD the other evening and picked up a couple dozen of their fat orange pencils. The last couple batches of flat carpenter pencils I bought were thoroughly disappointing, so I'll be anxious to see how these work.
If you are going down a river at 2 mph and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to shingle your roof?
03-02-2017, 03:27 PM
(03-02-2017, 08:11 AM)Bill Wilson Wrote: The last couple batches of flat carpenter pencils I bought were thoroughly disappointing I'll never forget my old boss saying "those things are only good for pushing your hemorrhoids back in" I haven't used one since.
Mark
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Bill Wilson
This is Your Life...and we bet it will be a really good one because he works hard and really, really
03-02-2017, 04:19 PM
(03-02-2017, 03:27 PM)CLETUS Wrote: I'll never forget my old boss saying "those things are only good for pushing your hemorrhoids back in" Well I certainly wouldn't borrow his.
If you are going down a river at 2 mph and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to shingle your roof?
03-02-2017, 05:52 PM
(03-02-2017, 04:19 PM)Bill Wilson Wrote: Well I certainly wouldn't borrow his. Why on Earth would you want to borrow a hemorrhoid?
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things. -- G. Carlin
Bill Wilson
This is Your Life...and we bet it will be a really good one because he works hard and really, really
03-02-2017, 06:59 PM
If you are going down a river at 2 mph and your canoe loses a wheel, how much pancake mix would you need to shingle your roof?
03-02-2017, 07:38 PM
Excellent derail 3 posts up.
My fav pencils bought from Lowes probably 5 years ago. C.H. Hanson. Ended up getting about 10 tubes of them. Nice wood pencil, 15 in a tube with a hand sharpener. $2.00 a tube if I remember right. Also bought a box of the Ticonderoga no.2 triangular shaped back when someone said they were all the rage of pencils. Well I hate em. Hard to grip, don't sharpen well. Bought a box of 36 and there's still 35 in there. Wonder if HD would send out 1 pencil, with free shipping?  
Steve
Mo. I miss the days of using my dinghy with a girlfriend too. Zack Butler-4/18/24 The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints WaterlooMark 02/9/2020 
03-03-2017, 08:25 AM
The older Boston crank pencil sharpeners are showing up at yard sales for two or three bucks. We saw one in an antique shop the other day for twenty bucks.
Come on that's price gouging! Oh well, that's what they do best. Sorry, I'm ranting. Yard sales are the best place to find them. Joe
03-03-2017, 11:04 AM
(03-03-2017, 08:25 AM)Joe Tilson Wrote: The older Boston crank pencil sharpeners are showing up at yard sales for two or three bucks. We saw one in an antique shop the other day for twenty bucks. I'm hoarding 3 of them. Got them when they were new. 
Steve
Mo. I miss the days of using my dinghy with a girlfriend too. Zack Butler-4/18/24 The Revos apparently are designed to clamp railroad ties and pull together horrifically prepared joints WaterlooMark 02/9/2020 
03-03-2017, 11:50 AM
I bought a few of the Dixon Jumbo finishing pencils form Lowe's some time back. I think the lead holds up better. I like them a lot for general marking and labeling. I have mechanical and a marking knife for the critical stuff.
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