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Happy National Pencil Day to our American friends!

To celebrate the USA’s National Pencil Day I want to reheat some of the previous content:

You might remember the link to Staedtler’s Mandala creator from the bestselling Noris blog post. Unfortunately, the shapes available have nothing to do with stationery, so I put some circles and hexagons together to make them look like pencils, plus something that is supposed to be a fountain pen nib. In case you really want to colour this in, here’s a link to the PDF.

Since the National Calendar page’s entry on the National Pencil Day includes a few words about Roald Dahl I thought I also show this video again. It has previously been featured in the Nail-gun-sharpening discontinued glow-in-the-dark pencils blog post.

To finish off just a quick note that there are 70 new articles in the Stationery Wiki. Please feel free to add more information.

You can find more National Pencil Day blog posts at Pencil Revolution and Lead Fast.

Nail-gun-sharpening discontinued glow-in-the-dark pencils

1 Comment / Links / 28 November 2016 / 78G, BBC, Made in Japan, Pilot, Roald Dahl, Sarah & Duck

What an odd blog post title, but it’s just about a few things worth mentioning that didn’t make it into their own blog posts. You might have already seen some on Bleistift’s Facebook page.

Pilot 78G

It’s quite sad to read that the Pilot 78G has been discontinued. I have been using one for a while and really like it. There were rumours about it being discontinued for a while, but it now seems to have come true. You can still get them cheap on eBay, especially the ones with M or B nibs.

I just bought a blue one with a fine nib. More expensive than many other 78Gs, but still not more expensive than a Lamy Safari.

Roald Dahl

Bruce send me this link to a video where Roald Dahl, probably most famous for his books for children, talks about sharpening pencils.

Nail Gun

A very different way of sharpening pencils: a nail gun with a built-in pencil sharpener on Reddit.

Glow-in-the-dark pencil

I wish our city had a store like that (Image © Karrot Entertainment)

When our little one was watching CeeBeebies I noticed that the episode of Sarah & Duck he was watching also had some content for stationery fans. It was about a glow-in-the-dark pencil.

Glow-in-the-dark pencils (Image © Karrot Entertainment)

I believe that the use of the eBay image and the images shown in this blog post, taken from the third episode pf the third season of Sarah & Duck, falls under “fair dealing” as described by the UK Copyright service.

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