Humpday Triviola
Last week I was asking about Incense Cedar. What is the industry term for what you get when you cut that wood into the size of 2 5/8"X 2 5/8"X 8"?
Tom
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I'm drawing a blank here.
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I think I need a pencil to figure this one out.
Lee
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#4Re: WAG
Billet?
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#5Coming to the point...Answer
John was in first and Lee was correct as well. The actual term is "Pencil Stock"....self explanatory I'd say.
Tom
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#6I must be thick
But that seems mighty thick for a pencil, so count me as one to whom "pencil stock" is not self-explanatory. Care to explain?
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#7To make a pencil
Having spent some time in a pencil factory:
Pre-sized blanks are slit with a gang-saw into slabs 1/2 as thick as the diameter of a finished pencil.
A 2-sided molding machine grooves one side for the lead, and the other side for half of the traditional hexagonal profile.
2 profiled slabs are glued around the extruded graphite 'leads'. Then the glued up slabs are slit into pencils.
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Okay. that makes sense as a process. I just don't see anything magical about that size. Probably just that the "acme pencil making machine company" captured the market, and the design has never changed.
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#9Re: To make a pencil
Alex, you are probably right. By practice became a standard. No other magical reason for it.
T.