How to Make a Pencil? Process of Creating Pencils At The Oldest Factory

The photographer showed the process of creating pencils at the oldest factory in the world, and if you think that it is boring, then you will be very surprised

How to Make a Pencil? One of the oldest and most widely used writing instruments, a pencil, is a very simple thing, consisting of a wooden base and a graphite rod. 

However, this simplicity of its structure is surprisingly complex for production. Since 1889, General Pencil has turned a huge amount of raw materials (wax, paints, cedar boards, graphite) into products that can be found in art shops and stationery throughout America: watercolor pencils, simple pencils, pastel crayons, and much more.

Photographer Christopher Payne visited the plant dozens of times a year, documenting every phase of the production process to create pencils. Now he shared with us a secret that is hidden behind the usual brick walls of the oldest factory in the world.