Making an O'BON Pencil

For over 400 years, the pencil has been made the same way. Take some graphite and surround it in a wood casing. The wood casing causes some problems as to encase the graphite, two pieces of wood are grooved so that the graphite fits snuggly in. Glue is then applied and the two pieces of wood are slapped together. The problem is that there is almost always an air gap between the two pieces of wood and the graphite. So, when you drop the pencil, the graphite vibrates. This vibration causes the delicate and brittle graphite to easily snap. Thus, when you sharpen a wood pencil, you will often have problems with the graphite being broken. This is frustrating as you waste time sharpening (and often resharpening) and you lose a big chunk of your pencil.

Graphite snapping is not a problem with an O'BON pencil. As we take an old newspaper, flatten it and cut it to the right width, we then apply a thorough coating of water-based glue as we wrap the graphite. We wrap it 36 times. After it is air dried and then heat dried, the newspaper hardens without any air pocket. Without air pockets, our pencil graphite is nearly impossible to break. If it drops on the floor, that's no problem for the delicate and brittle graphite. Bang an O'BON pencil on the side of your desk, then sharpen it. No breakage. O'BON pencils just don't have the graphite snapping problem that drives people with wood pencils nuts. Simply put, O'BON pencils will usually last you 3 times longer.

 

> O'BON Pencils are shock resistant
Our special roll-on method during manufacturing tightly wraps the solid newspaper material around the graphite, leaving no vibration gaps or trapped air inside the pencil. Drop it, we expect you to! The graphite in the center wouldn't break when we drove a car over it.

> O'BON Pencils win the marathon
The absence of flaky, broken graphite means that O'BON pencils generally last longer than ordinary wood pencils. Saving money, time, and most importantly; the earth's natural resources.

> O'BON Pencils are safe
Don't try poking out your eye on purpose to prove us wrong; O'BON products conform to the European Standards of Safety (EN-71) and has the highest standards in manufacturing and environmental considerations.