Adventures in Renovation

How cool are carpenter's pencils? No really, how cool are they right? I don't usually make product endorsements, but like carpenter's pencils are just so cool everyone should take a moment to recognize how awesomely rad these things are.

They're flattened so they won't roll away, they have big, fat, heavy-duty leads in them for making manly marks on lumber, and you don't need to buy a sharpener to sharpen them. You just use your manly pocket knife or a razor blade to whittle down the point. No need to create an industry around making another product usable. Well actually, you can buy a special sharpener for carpenter's pencils, but the point is you don't HAVE to. How sweet!

Here is a picture of the oldest known pencil in existence that just happens to be a carpenter's pencil. Coincidence? And here is an article that a pencil collector wrote about carpenter's pencils. Whoa.