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04-13-2016, 10:06 PM
Call it a comeback: This 25-year-old is turning a profit selling pencils
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One morning in February 2016 a man sat down at his computer and ordered $4,000 worth of pencils designed to look like John Steinbeck's favorite, the Blackwing 24.
“It's probably the most iconic pencil ever made in America,” says Caroline Weaver, whose shop on New York's Lower East Side, C.W. Pencil Enterprise, took the order of 1,920 pencils. C.W. carries more than 200 types of pencils, including the Blackwing (also favored by Walt Disney), as well as a dozen erasers and sharpeners and zero mechanicals.
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“Mechanical pencils, they don't smell like anything. The lead is so small you can get ** line variation out of it," says Weaver, 25. "Though it is a little bit of work to use a wood-cased pencil, most people appreciate that. There's a physical connection you can draw between how often you have to sharpen your pencil and how much work you've done."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/turning-a-profit-selling-pencils/)
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One morning in February 2016 a man sat down at his computer and ordered $4,000 worth of pencils designed to look like John Steinbeck's favorite, the Blackwing 24.
“It's probably the most iconic pencil ever made in America,” says Caroline Weaver, whose shop on New York's Lower East Side, C.W. Pencil Enterprise, took the order of 1,920 pencils. C.W. carries more than 200 types of pencils, including the Blackwing (also favored by Walt Disney), as well as a dozen erasers and sharpeners and zero mechanicals.
SEE ALSO: How an Internet cat craze became a toy empire (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-03-14/how-an-internet-cat-craze-became-a-toy-empire)
“Mechanical pencils, they don't smell like anything. The lead is so small you can get ** line variation out of it," says Weaver, 25. "Though it is a little bit of work to use a wood-cased pencil, most people appreciate that. There's a physical connection you can draw between how often you have to sharpen your pencil and how much work you've done."* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/04/13/turning-a-profit-selling-pencils/)
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