Cap that pencil.
Fred from Orange, Connecticut wrote in recently about pencil caps:
I am 76. I recall that when I was young, we used to have available a metal , rocket-shaped item, ending with a dullish point. The purpose was to put this over the sharpened tip of one’s pencils so that they would not break, hurt someone, or by accident mark up something….they have since vanished, in part because pencils have been replaced (for walking about) with mechanical pencils, so that real pencils now are alomst always kept in offices, rooms, desks, etc., and there no longer is the need to cap the tip. I have out of curiousity looked all over the place for any remains of this metal protector but, alas, have not found any. Most folks either have forgotten about them or are too young to have known about them.
I know that General’s Pencil Co. makes some plastic caps called Sav-A-Point that go on the tips of pencils and that Cretacolor makes a metal cap for woodless pencils. But Fred and I wonder if anyone out there knows where to get some metal pencil caps like they used to make?
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Another plastic one…
http://www.faber-castell.de/docs/index_ebene3.asp?id=13039&domid=1010&sp=E&addlastid=&m1=10329&m2=10333&m3=13123&m4=13039
By pigpogm on 08.11.05 12:48 am
Or a more metallic (read expensive) of the same.
By JP on 08.11.05 3:08 am
I just ordered a metal pencil cap from dick blick art materials. It was 79 cents and is made by Cretacolor, an Austrian company, I believe.
By Ashley on 08.19.05 10:38 pm
I’ve just ordered some of General’s sav-a-points from Dick Blick, too, for reviewing soon. I forgot to order the metal cap — next order:)
By PRevo on 08.20.05 11:02 am
How about a set of 3 pencil holders, 5 metal caps, and one eraser?
Found here:
http://www.manufactum.co.uk/group/173993/dmc_mb3_productlist_pi1.20505.page/1/dmc_mb3_productlist_pi1.20505.num/8/product/838461/Product_Details.2700.0.html
By Anonymous on 11.25.05 12:28 am
I have been looking for them too. Someone from India told me they are still sold there.
By John Gatiss on 07.24.06 6:41 pm
my friend claims to have ‘invented’ these, she even has a patent panding on them.
i dont know if they’re exactly like the ones already out there
By alyssa on 10.09.06 10:07 am
I just returned from Japan and they have them there. As a teacher, I had just commented that someone should make something like that and low and behold there they were at the hundred yen store in Japan which translates to 4 metal caps for $1. They are made by a company called Daiso.
By cece on 04.06.08 12:51 am
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