Dragonmaster Lou
September 15th, 2017, 11:15 AM
This has been something that has been bugging me since I was a kid.
Now, I always had whatever wooden pencils were on sale at any given time as a kid, so I was never picky. However, I noticed that there were often two kinds of "wood" (yes, the quotes are important) that the pencils were made of. One was definitely like real wood in the way it sharpened, smelled, etc. The other, for lack of a better term, seemed plasticky -- the shavings were always smoother than real wood, the leads somehow seemed to write worse, etc. Anyway, I hated these relative to the more wooden ones. Any ideas on what this plasticky material was?
Now, I always had whatever wooden pencils were on sale at any given time as a kid, so I was never picky. However, I noticed that there were often two kinds of "wood" (yes, the quotes are important) that the pencils were made of. One was definitely like real wood in the way it sharpened, smelled, etc. The other, for lack of a better term, seemed plasticky -- the shavings were always smoother than real wood, the leads somehow seemed to write worse, etc. Anyway, I hated these relative to the more wooden ones. Any ideas on what this plasticky material was?