The ubiquitous writing and drawing utensil may seem as commonplace ... told us that his undergrad professors recommended using wooden pencils in a range of leads (like the above Staedtlers ...

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While the wood-cased pencil soon became commonplace ... became available in specialist drafting pencils in 1961. By the 1970s, more than 60 million mechanical pencils were sold worldwide every ...

But artist Tuomas Markun Poika must’ve missed that class, since he instead uses pencils to create wooden vases with unique patterns made possible by the process with which they’re made.