How Pencils Are Made | Made Here | Popular Mechanics

Subscribe to PopMech: If you’re a fan of calming ASMR, you’re in for a real treat. In this episode of MADE HERE, we’re taking you through the pencil-making production process—from colored pencils, to sketching pencils, and the everyday classic pencil. The beloved writing tool begins as a humble slab of wood from which the familiar pencil shape emerges. The slabs for the colored pencils get sorted, shaved, then sorted again before being stacked, smoothed down and shaped. Next, the color stick is sandwiched between two slabs of cut wood that gets placed in a machine that prepares to cut the columns that will become sharpened pencils later on in the production process. Colored pencils receive a layer of paint to indicate what the color is and move down a conveyor belt where they get stacked and prepped for packaging. Before anything can move forward, though, it has to get a quality control check; then the pencils are on their way to being labeled with the company name and logo. Elsewhere in the factory, ferrules (the little metal bands that affix the eraser to the pencil body) and erasers are being sorted and prepped for attachment. The ferrules go on first and then the erasers get plugged in to the proper pencils. The near-finished product—both regular pencils and colored pencils—then get sharpened and packaged in their boxes for delivery, where they eventually make their way to us. Visit the Voskresenskaya Pencil Factory: Featured artist: Johan Piere More Made Here episodes: How balloons are made: How Himalayan salt is mined: How tiles are made: How candy is made: How pencils are made: -------------------------------------- Facebook: Twitter: Instagram: Pinterest: #madehere #pencilmaking #russianmade How Pencils Are Made | Made Here | Popular Mechanics