Some more experiences with stone paper based on extensive research done over the weekend: 1) Pencil is harder to erase. Makes sense: the pencil graphite likes to bond with plastics, which is why rubber erasers work in the first place. The stone paper has high plastic content. So... 2) It does not like dried ink gunk at the tip of ballpoints. At all. Stops the pen dead in its tracks. 3) The nicest pen I found (so far) to write on stone paper are what is called "Kopierstift" in German. I think the English term is "inedible pencil". It has a rather waxy lead which rubs off onto the stone paper very nicely. Now, those pencils work on normal paper by its pigments bonding to the paper, which makes the writing "document proof" (I prefer to use the term "archival"). This process takes time. Initially, the writing is often very pale, and gets darker/more intensive over time. The process needs water, so it can be sped up by storing in high humidity, or making the pencil or paper wet. On the stone paper, the inedible pencil writes directly with high intensity/darkness. Though I do not know how "document proof" this is. Fresh, it does smudge a bit when rubbing with a wet finger. Otherwise, this stone paper/Kopierstift combo works really well. I also got a Tombow Airpress ballpoint pen, again just for the gadget factor, but it is one of the very few ballpoints in a long time I actually like. Mostly because it writes very fine (most easily obtainable pens and almost all ballpoints are too broad for my taste.) Seems to be the Japanese influence – they have a lot more fine writing pens of all kinds. The gadget factor comes in that this pen is a development from the Fisher Space Pen, but instead of a cartridge pre-pressurized in the factory, the Tombow uses a simple, cheap, open-ended cartridge, and uses a small air pump to pressurize the cartridges every time the clicker is pressed. Contains less ink, but one can still replace the cartridge (which is really cheap), the whole pen is inexpensive (got it for €6), and maybe doesn't have the problems I always had with pressurized cartridges (leakage at the tip.) BTW, a lot of manufacturers make pressurized cartridges, and in my experience the Fisher ones are currently the worst of the bunch. Better ones are from Schmidt, or Mitsubishi Uni-Ball.
"Inedible" like American fast food or "indelible" like the ink on museum quality documents? I'm betting on #2 but I've been wrong before.
D'oh! I wish I could blame autocorrect for it... BTW, forgot to add that the Tombow Airpress works quite nicely for stone paper, too. Just need some long term data how it behaves with dried ink gunk.
Go ahead and blame autocorrect. It doesn't care and deserves it. If it wasn't guilty here, I'm sure it's done lots of other things. And I'll bet the pencils are inedible.
Well, like American fast food, they can be eaten in the same way people have eaten light bulbs and jeeps. However they probably provide no more nutritional value than a Big Mac (which I believe comes in at a negative value).
Back in the olden days, those "Kopierstift"s were often licked to make them write better. That's why you see people licking pencils in old movies. The thing is that the olden day's pigments were pretty toxic... so "inedible" is the correct term...
Lead pencils used to be made of actual lead. They didn't work very well unitl they switched to graphite, but the name stuck, much as 'tinfoil' did after they started making it from aluminum.
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies and Jim Jarmusch's latest, The Dead Don't Die. Jarmusch might just be my favourite film maker ever.
It goes a bit deeper, as graphite was originally thought to be a lead ore. Hence the latin name of "plumbago" for graphite (compare to "plumbum"=lead.) Yes, lead was used for writing, but even when people were already using graphite in pencils, people still thought they were using lead.
Didn't order it, and have no idea exactly what it is, but Amazon sent me one of these last week: https://www.amazon.com/Flex-Drain-Flexible-Expandable-Landscaping-Perforated/dp/B000GOBN24/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=flex+drain&qid=1593958637&sr=8-4
^ There's a street near mine with a very similar name, and my house is difficult to find, tucked back in a little niche in the woods. We could always tell when we get a new mail carrier or UPS delivery person because my stuff would show up at their house or vice versa. We would just make mail trading runs—I'd drop off his and pick up mine or he'd do the same. After while he trained his 10 year old son to do it. Once I caught it when the mail carrier was midway between our houses and while walking there I caught up to him and explained. A lot harder to do, and easier not to care, when the other person is faceless and lives nowhere near you.
I bought an optic for my rifle three weeks ago. Apparently thanks to COVID, it's stuck in Illinois...
Two little setscrews to mount my scope rail on my Camp45. Spacing is off by 2mm (fuckle!). Best, straightest shooting camp gun I have, and I shoot it musket style. May as well hip-shoot it! Slim-scope means no site at the front, and now I can't put it back on. Had to wrap a copper wire at the end, hillbilly style! Shoots straight, though.
Now that's bootleg. I got an AR15 chambered in 6.5 Grendel. Ordered a carry handle sight for 20$ on the web thinking the savings would be worth it. I'm dying to shoot it now...
Well, I bought a personal trampoline to use in the house. It's been shipped, but I'm anxious for it to arrive. Jumping in place is theraputic.