2. A wax and stain are applied and the slats are passed under a cutting wheel.
3. The grooves in the slats are filled with a special with elastic glue for the lead.
4. Now its time to add the lead. Lead is created by mixing graphite and clay and baking it in a oven at about 1500 degrees. It is turned into lead which is conman terminology used to describe the inside of a pencil.
5. After the pencil is loaded with lead its time for slat of wood to be on the top this is done on a conveyor belt with an automatic arm that flips the glue over the stacks on top of the other slats conating the lead.
6. A mechanised plunger squeezes the sandwich together with over 2,000 pounds pressure. The wood slats are compress as the glue has to time dry.
7. After about an hour the sandwich is are sliced into pencils a fast spinning cutter is used to shape the pencils into a hexagon design from there the pencils are a sperate from the sandwich into individual pieces. Any pencil with defects are discard.
8. One at a time the pencils go thorough a lacquering head giving them a colour and sheen.
The surface is coated 4-10 times of paint depending on the desired quality and colour.
9. The final step is adding a rubber at the very top of the pencil with a assembly machine. First the machine squeezes the top of the pencil and it slides on the alumnil part.
10. Some pencil are wrapped in decorated film with intricate designs while others are screen printed in foil stamps.
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