How It's Made: The Pencil
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The most familiar tool on any desk hides a surprising secret โ there is no lead in a pencil at all. Tonight the ๐ญ How It's Made shelf of the Wizard Cinema returns, and The Wizard walks you through the pencil's whole true journey, stage by stage, exactly as it really happens. Every step was checked against the real process before a single frame was filmed.
โ๏ธ The Pencil
It starts as two powders โ black graphite and fine clay โ mixed with water and squeezed into a strand no thicker than the core itself. Fired in a kiln at a heat approaching one thousand degrees, then treated with wax, the fragile strand becomes a smooth-gliding core. Meanwhile incense cedar is sawn into slats, grooved eight at a time, glued around the cores in the famous pencil sandwich, shaped into hexagons, painted coat after coat, and finished with a crimped ferrule, a pink eraser, and its first sharp point.
๐ญ Watch It in the Theater
The Pencil is showing now in the How It's Made section of the Wizard Cinema lobby, alongside The Glass Bottle and Chocolate, Bean to Bar. A new true journey arrives every week.
Did you know the clay is what decides whether a pencil writes hard and light, or soft and dark?
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