Editing The Pen Addict 484/transcript (section)

== Pencil Making Kit ==


'''Brad:'''  It's basically, it's basically like a whole toolbox and on how to make a pencil. And it's, it looks to me like, I just, I don't know, but it looks extremely well done, you know, from just my visuals. I would love to know if someone has tested this out because you're doing everything, like you're putting the slats together. You're putting the cores in the middle of the slats. You're extruding the barrels to, to cut the shape of the barrel. You know, do you want a hex barrel or do you want, you know, a round barrel? And you can do these different things with this.

'''Myke:''' And they erase it on and put an eraser, the barrel. It's got a little, man. This is a wild thing. I, I will say, I don't know why. The only reason I can imagine somebody wanted this is because they just wanted it. You know, like I don't really think there's much of a purpose for it as such. Right. I don't think people need to make their own pencils, but I could imagine like you might, if you like this kind of thing, like, like hobby stuff or whatever, you could, oh, this seems like a fun activity. Right.

'''Brad:'''  Right. And they did pose it as, hey, you know, do this with your kids. Right. Right. It's very, it's theoretically kid-friendly the way the marketing is. Well, I don't know, man. But it's not, it's not on there, like it's a complicated piece of machining. Like, I mean.

'''Myke:''' I don't know if this is Myke friendly. I don't know about kid-friendly. This, I mean. It's pretty intense. Yeah. I think I could get caught in something here.

'''Brad:'''  Like, there's a lot of things going on. Yeah. But you just like, it's, they even have it set up. I was like looking, I was like looking at the, at the marketing page and you go all the way down and you see like the painted pencils. I was like, well, how do they suggest like you paint the pencils? And they actually have that built in. They have like a holder that's built into this device that allows you to turn the pencil as you paint it. It's really cool.

'''Myke:''' Right. Like it's really, they have a bunch of stuff. With this company, you can do like make, they have like chopstick makers and stuff too.

'''Brad:'''  Yeah. So it's wild. It's, but I think you said it the best. It's kind of like a hobby kit, right? Yes. So it's like one of those things, like if you're going to do like a science project, like this is a more like a hardware type project, right? Like, you know, it's, it's pretty cool. I, they have clearly thought a lot about this.

'''Myke:''' In general, Brad, I don't know if you checked out their website, but like they sell just tools, right?

'''Brad:'''  I mean, I'm looking at stuff. Yeah. I'm looking at like thousand dollar planers and stuff like that.

'''Myke:''' They are beautiful.

'''Brad:'''  Yeah.

'''Myke:''' Really beautiful. Like just like the planes, like the block planes. Yeah. They're stunning.

'''Brad:'''  Yeah.

'''Myke:''' They really are.

'''Brad:'''  Cool company. Pretty well. Yeah. Very cool. Never heard of this before. You know, their, their tagline is serving woodworkers worldwide since 1983. So they're definitely like in that, that market. Yeah. And it looks like some pretty cool stuff. So I wanted to bring that up because I thought it was neat. And I thought it was, it surprised me when I clicked the link, what I was actually seeing. So it was very cool.

'''Myke:''' All right. Should we take our first break?

'''Brad:'''  Yeah. We might have some other stuff to talk about.

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'''Brad:'''  Yeah. Love a pen carrying case. Maybe. Let me think about it a little bit.

'''Myke:''' You can think about that.

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