Comments on: Hands-On: C.H. Hanson’s Superpencil

By: DANIEL CHARLES

DANIEL CHARLES — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:38:43 +0000

Other tools you could use are PDA’s! Why bother with pencils when IT can help all the construction industry including sub contractors from estimating to managing staff!
Check out http://www.xsien.com for some of the best construction management software available.

By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 00:51:13 +0000

Check out the Superpencil’s glorious promo poster:

http://hardwareaisle.thisoldhouse.com/2007/07/the-wood-less-s.html

By: David

David — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 18:04:41 +0000

I hate pencils, but I found a writing utensil that uses liquid graphite. It’s just like using ball-point pen, but with graphite instead of ink. Probably not the best woodshop item, but with its uses nonetheless.

By: Benjamen Johnson

Benjamen Johnson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 20:37:30 +0000

I’m with newguy, I thik a mechanical pencil it the way to go, just buy a cheap multi-pack, and litter them all over your shop so you have one everywhere you look.

1) You also don’t have to worry about rolling because they have a pen clip.
2) Wasting time sharpening pencils is a thing of the past.
3) You can push the lead back into the pencil and use the metal barrel as a scribe.
4) The small 0.5mm lead is great for accuracy.

By: eschoendorff

eschoendorff — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 14:32:55 +0000

Same here, Tony. Except the mechanical pencils were my weapon of choice in music school (still are). Bought a metric crap-ton of those.

By: Ken

Ken — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:14:10 +0000

Hey Dave i just cut all the erasers off all the pencils in the house and it’s driving my other half nuts.I tell her i am perfect.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:21:43 +0000

I’ve done the same thing Tony, except I just grab a box of golf pencils. They’re short so they fit right behind your ear, pre sharpened, and nobody wants to steal them. If you’ve got the time to sharpen a whole bunch of pencils, then get the regular ones and cut them in half, then you have 2 gold pencil sized pencils, and one has an eraser. During college, I used a drafting lead holder almost exclusively. If you don’t make mistakes then you don’t need an eraser.

By: Tony Clifton

Tony Clifton — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:44:29 +0000

In re: the disappearing pencil mystery:

When I was in music school, I used to lose pencils all the time; everyone uses pencils to mark their music, take notes, etc. I’m pretty forgetful, so I’d leave pencils sitting in the practice rooms all the time, and I’d loan pencils out all the time and never get them back.

My solution was simple: I went to OfficeMax and bought an entire gross of relatively nice, solid wood, #2 pencils. It wasn’t very expensive (I think $6-7), and from then on I didn’t have to worry about pencils walking away on me, because at 4 cents a piece, who cares? Whenever I loaned pencils out, I told people to keep them; after a while, I noticed that I was losing fewer and fewer pencils.

By: Steve Thompson

Steve Thompson — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:33:51 +0000

Um….wouldn’t sharpening the pencil be the FIRST thing you would do?

By: Chet

Chet — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:17:19 +0000

Well said Tom! I’ve never ended a project with the same pencil I started with….especially when my father-in-law helps out. “Hey I need a pecil, gimme yours!”

By: Yuppers

Yuppers — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:14:55 +0000

Doesn’t seem like you could get a nice sharp line.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:55:07 +0000

I don’t care if it lasts a long time, because any pencil I am using disappears as soon as I put it down.

By: newguy

newguy — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:10:00 +0000

I just started using a mechanical carpenter’s pencil from Husky, Love it!