Number 1 out of 50 things to do with a penknife1, according to the book’s author Matt Collins, is (… drum roll): Sharpen a pencil!
I believe that the use of this excerpt, taken from the book 50 things to do with a penkinfe by Matt Collins, falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service
Many of my videos that were originally posted to accompany blog posts were kind of forgotten, i.e. were never mentioned here, even though I made them to be used in a future blog post. This includes one of my most popular videos with currently (July 2020) more than 64,000 views: a demonstration how the Mars 502 lead pointer tub works.
Originally posted because the 502 doesn’t come with useful instructions and the comments left under the video show that there is/was a demand for a video like this.
It’s time to temporarily revive the pencil pot of the month series.
After spending five years tucked away it was high time for this Lego pencil pot to get assembled.
I bought it at the Lego Store in Manchester in August 2015 for £10.99 (~€12.15; ~$13.50) …after unsuccessfully chasing a previous Lego pencil pot, one that I thought looked nicer, for a few weeks.
You can find previous pencil pots of the month in the pencil pot of the month archive.
Price: August 2015, exchange rates: June 2020
After seeing Brad’s tweet about the new Kaweco Student colours, see below..
New colors of the Kaweco Student announcing at Paperworld. The blue one is called the 50's Rock (pictured), along with a green one called 60's Swing. pic.twitter.com/6CyprX3Yc0
— Brad Dowdy – The Pen Addict (@dowdyism) January 28, 2020
.. I couldn’t resist showing you my Kawecco Student 70s Soul again.
I have more fountain pens than I dare to admit and love EF nibs. The Soul has the smoothest and ‘finest’, in both senses of the word, EF nib of all my fountain pens.
PS: Nice naming scheme, Kaweco.
Bleistift Blog is wishing you all the best for 2020.
If you want to start the new year with new mechanical pencils (from Caran d’Ache, Faber-Castell, Lamy and BIC) you still have a few days left to take part in the Stationery Wiki:Mechanical Pencil Day Contest 2019 (..if you read this blogpost on the day it was published).
All you need to do is to improve an article or maybe even create a new article to have a chance of winning.
Good Luck – for 2020 and for the contest.