Monday, July 12, 2010

From The Desk 2

Many might regard them as old-fashioned, kitschy and touristy, but I've kind of got a soft-spot for them. Rulers, little boxes, etc made from selections of inlaid native timbers. They sell for rather expensive touristy prices.
wooden rulerwooden ruler reverse side

A pen turned from...?
wooden ruler and pen

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

Dave

Cool Ruler. Just how many mechanical pencils are using a wood body-any idea- like the S-20?

Jim

Kiwi-d said...

Jim, other than "not many" I can't really say :-)

Stephen said...

I like it. Practical and educational.

JiBi_AI said...

Wow
I really love your ruler
in fact I love wood-made things.

I own 1 wood-made mechanical pencil "Mitsubishi PURE MALT 0.5mm. (M5-1015)" very beautiful

Time Waster said...

I want a pencil made out of pertrified wood I bet that would have some good weight to it.

Time Waster said...

http://www.executiveessentials.com/itemd.asp?ItemNo=FC%20PF%20145040&srccode=GOOGLEBASEEE

Well they got em =) pens that is =) 2k a pop though =)

Kiwi-d said...

Alternatively for less than 0.1K

http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/2009/03/ancient-kauri.html

or

http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/2006/03/ancient-swamp-pen.html

Anonymous said...

I bought a couple of "woodies" from this guy:

http://www.turn-of-the-century.com/Pencilgal.htm

If you like the Pentel P205 style, these are fantastic. Really nice workmanship and not too expensive.

Bob L., California USA

Lexx said...

OMG! That rule rules! I'm a pencil addicted too, and i love so see, touch and smeel the variosity type os woods that is used on it, that rule is now a must-hav for me! *-*

Anonymous said...

This is a random question. I was just wondering what is the point of a lead hardness indicator ring? Can't a pencil use all the grades eg. HB, F?

Kiwi-d said...

A lead hardness ring lets you know what lead grade you have put into your pencil. So, if you are an artist or draftsperson and have several pencils and want to load different grades in different pencils you will know which is which.

Anonymous said...

thanks for the quick reply!