Hey there lovely people. I know I had promised an ink review for yesterday and obviously that did not happen. That's because I, the person who never gets sick, came down with a nasty cold/upper-respiratory thing over Wednesday night. My brain was scrambled all day yesterday and it does not look any better for today.
So, I'm gonna wrap up in a blanket on my couch and play Minecraft, and I'll be back once I'm feeling better.
Promised links to reviews mentioned in video:
In case you ignored all my hints, there was a giveaway going on as part of my Twist Bullet Pencil review. I didn't announce it explicitly because I wanted to reward people who actually read the blog, not just people who show up hoping to get free stuff. I would like to do more of these sort of ninja giveaways in the future, but that will probably have to wait until I have steady income again.
Goofy numbering because of how entries were arranged in my spreadsheet, but 47 here = entry 45
Anyway, I wanted to announce the winner! There were 47 entries, and my random number generator came up with entry 45, Rafael! Way to be awesome! I have already notified him (sorry if that's the wrong pronoun, please let me know if it is), so I guess that concludes this giveaway. Like I said, be on the lookout for more of these in the future, but not the immediate future.
Thanks so much to everyone who entered and everyone who reads this blog regularly. It really means a lot to me and I have some really awesome stuff planned for October. :-)
Thanks everyone for a wonderful Pencil Month! Wrapping it up today with some of my rusty chemistry knowledge and attempt to enlighten you as to how pencils work on a chemical level.
Here are the links to information I used to put this video together:
Basic info about graphite
SEM image of the surface of paper
Basic info about pencils
Basic info about erasers
Patent for method of preparing pencil cores
And here is the step-by-step process that is used to put pencil cores into the wooden slats