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Prepare pencil Lead and pencil slats.

All wood strips should be air-dried and coated with paraffin wax, then make the wood slats with semicircular grooves, put the pencil lead into grooves. Two pieces of wood slats are put together with glue to become pencil sandwiches.

Sandwiches become pencils. The sandwiches are placed on a conveyor belt and moved through two sets of cutters, one above and one below the belt. The cutters above the sandwiches cut around the top half, while the lower set cuts around the bottom half and separates the finished pencils. The majority of pencils are hexagonal, so designed to keep the pencils from rolling off surfaces; a single sandwich yields six to nine hexagonal pencils.

After the pencils have been cut, their surfaces are smoothed by sanders, and varnish is applied and dried. This is done with varnishing machines, in which the pencils are immersed in a vat of varnish and then passed through a felt disk, which removes the excess varnish. After drying, the pencils are put through the process again and again until the desired color is achieved. Finally, the pencils receive a finishing coat.

Put Erasers on the pencil. This step, held to the pencil by a round, metal case called a “ferrule.” The ferrule first attaches to the pencil either with glue or with small metal prongs, and then the eraser is inserted and the ferrule clamped around it. In the final step, heated steel die presses the company logo onto each pencil.

Because they travel along a conveyor belt during the manufacturing process, pencils are thoroughly scrutinized before they are distributed to the public. Workers are trained to discard pencils that appear dysfunctional, and a select number is sharpened and tested when the process is complete.