(SNIP) yep...….when CAD came around we thought it was for sissies.
errmuhhgrrd!!! Is that the Tandy Leather Co Pocket Protector kit?!?
*sigh*
Remembering my Staedtler-Mars and Koh-I-Noor 2mm clutch pencils... and the cast-iron Bruning sharpener pointer in black crinkle-finish. Now THERE was a weapon. And I had one of the first NiCd (not "converted dry cell") Bruning erasers; everybody wanted to "borrow" it.
How many pokes with a divider... how many halogen lamp burns?
mnem
How many eraser shield cuts does it take to get to the Tootsie-Roll center of a prehistoric engineer-draughtsman?
not sure what happened to my sharpeners. had a couple of the crap plastic ones but always lusted for one of those black crinkle finish iron monsters. in the design division at the Philadelphia naval slipshod if you called a "lead holder" a "pencil" you would be the subject of scorn. my curves were little baby things in that shop. the real engineers had giant "ships curves" that were things of beauty. you never ever borrowed one with out permission. and god help you if some one saw you use a scale as a straight edge.....that's what triangles are for.
the first time I ever saw an electric eraser its owner told me to never touch it. and threatened to kill me like a dog if he ever caught me sticking it down my pants. (never would have occurred to me if he had not mentioned it first).
good times I tell ya' what.
Yeah, that's why I went back and corrected "sharpener" to "pointer"... though the Koh-i-noor reps called theirs a "clutch pencil" to differentiate them from their mechanical "drafting pencils" in 0.2mm-0.9mm sizes. Anybody who tried to give me shit about calling it a clutch pencil then got "That's what the people who made it call it; piss off."
A GOOD scale is not really a good straightedge anyways; the major divisions have the faintest groove in the edge to help you set the scale on your dividers. But I can't tell you how many old-timers I STILL saw with telltale graphite stains on their scales once I started noticing; catching them was always a leveling point, but best done discreetly.
And I loved the old green and orange acrylic triangles from Staedtler and Koh-i-noor: the ones with the edges ground & polished on multiple angles so there was a razor-thin edge that fluoresced just below the actual working edge; those things were subtlety raised to an art form.
mnem
*hopelessly analog*