As a professional editor I marked up copy with a red pencil. The proofreader used blue.
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I was in Academic Publishing for a few years. I used the half red/half blue pencils (Mitsu 772) extensively for marking up.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pencils/comments/p8w070/wooden_pencils_with_red_lead/
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The Pencil Pages<br /> by [[Doug Martin]]<br /> accessed on 2025-11-09T09:27:11
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Mongolized<br /> by [[WoodChuck]] for CalCedar accessed on 2025-11-09T09:24:05
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- Aug 2025
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Capped Mechanical Pencils: Who Did It Better, Pentel Sharp Kerry or Uni Kuru Toga Dive?<br /> by [[The Gentleman Stationer]]<br /> accessed on 2025-08-13T09:52:42
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- May 2025
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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Keeran is considered a pioneer maker of mechanical pencils,[3] as the inventor of the first successful one.
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- Dec 2024
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The Advance also uses a mechanism which rotates at 2x the speed of some of the others with the stated intent of being geared towards western alphabet writing, as opposed to Japanese / Asian logograpic writing systems where the user picks up their pencil tip more frequently.
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- Oct 2024
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Advanced Typing: Duplicating and Manuscript. Vol. MN-1512d, 1943. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ve5JnTUzvo.
Stencils
Before writing stencils, be sure to clean your type. (Don't use liquid solvent.)
Be sure to place the cushion sheet properly behind the stencil.
Place the paper bail rollers at the extreme left and right of the stencil to prevent them from marking the master.
For errors, rub individual characters separately with a burnisher using a circular motion.
Hectograph masters, Hectograph ribbon (ditto ribbon)
Wax pencils
Typefaces
20% more type on a page with elite than 10 inch pica.
Pica allows approximately 26-40 lines on standard letterhead giving 300-450 words to a page.
Special characters: - o for degrees ' and " for feet and inches or minutes and seconds along with superscript - division: - backspace colon - pound sterling: L backspace f - exclamation point: period backspace ' - equal sign: hyphen backspace variable hyphen - paragraph mark: P backspace I
proofreaders' marks<br /> # followed by a number is used to mean insert that number of spaces
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- Sep 2024
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normal kurutoga was actually designed for writing Japanese strokes. The Advanced models were for writing English.
via u/runrainsky at https://old.reddit.com/r/mechanicalpencils/comments/u7pt8z/kuru_toga_elite_vs_roulette/jhvzka9/
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- Feb 2024
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But lo!men have become the tools of their tools. The manwho independently plucked the fruits when he was hun¬gry is become a farmer; and he who stood under a treefor shelter, a housekeeper.
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This quote is fascinating when one realizes that the Thoreau family business was manufacturing pencils at John Thoreau & Co., one of the first major pencil companies in the United States. Thoreau's father was the titular John and Henry David worked in the factory and improved upon the hardness of their graphite. https://hypothes.is/a/sm7LUpazEe2tTq_GhGiVIg
One might also then say that the man who manufactured pencils naturally should become a writer!
This quote also bears some interesting resemblance to quotes about tools which shape us by Winston Churchill and John M. Culkin see: https://hypothes.is/a/6Znx6MiMEeu3ljcVBsKNOw
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- Jun 2023
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www.theparisreview.org www.theparisreview.org
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/09/12/free-pencil-day/
A list of quotes from famous writers about pencils in The Paris Review.
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- May 2023
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blog.blackwing602.com blog.blackwing602.com
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https://blog.blackwing602.com/introducing-volume-1138-2/
While the Volume 1138 edition celebrates sci-fi and Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon, the number itself calls to mind the George Lucas/Walter Murch joint THX 1138.
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- Dec 2022
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rnv.letterspace.org rnv.letterspace.org
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https://rnv.letterspace.org/pencils/
A great series of posts on pencils here.
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After a leisurely lunch, prepared by the German cook who came with the house, I would spend another four-hour span in a lawn chair, among the roses and mockingbirds, using lined index cards and a Blackwing pencil, for copying and recopying, rubbing out and writing anew, the scenes I had imagined in the morning. Foreword to Lolita: A Screenplay (1973)
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www.officemuseum.com www.officemuseum.comPencils1
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www.pencilrevolution.com www.pencilrevolution.com
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https://us.makerscabinet.com/products/ferrule
What a beautiful looking instrument!
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