You’ll write instead, “scale in cm” like a good scientist should, because we’ll be giving these to our friends at GSA Denver.
Mechanical pencils and waterproof field books will be around for a long time. Here we have a pencil and centimeter photo scale combined.
Lily Hwang applied her photogrammetric/scientific/graphics skills to produce this. Not easy. Bob’s Buick doesn’t specify its freebie pencil logo length be accurate to 0.1mm.
Seems obvious, but I’ve never seen it done before, have you?
I’d love to laser engrave some nice Pentels or Staedlers. What do you think?
See you at GSA! (And here’s a link any field note nerd will appreciate; a blog dedicated to mechanical pencils. )
And I forgot, you can meet Lily at GSA, which is a singular experience!!
These are so cool! I can't wait to grab [more than] one.
I love it. (I also need it, because I've got a mechanical pencil for scale in too many photos.)
Ooh, nifty! Please say you'll be at AGU as well – I couldn't make it to GSA this year.
Hey, this is a really great idea… why was it not done before? Any way to get one if I won't be in Denver? Are you ever bringing your stream table to Vermont?
These are cheapo giveaways, so don't covet too much. But still great for scale and as a field vest backup. We'll get you one if you want one, (email me after GSA). I'll bring a bunch to the blogger's meet. @Charlie, check out the stream table map at emriver.com; we have quite a few in Vermont now!
Would it be possible to get one (or maybe two, so I can supply a colleague, too) of this very handy pens abroad?
chrisp-2. Send an email to info@emriver.com, we'll see what we can do.
These are brilliant. Really … I just saw these on the mountain beltway blog and am so sad that they aren't for sale
I am not currently a geology teacher.But I worked a part-time lecturer (architectural design) at a university . Now I am a regular member of AGU,and we studying geophysics. I think this pen will be very useful in the field of rock research. So I want this pen. What should I do now?
Thanks for reaching out! We’re glad you like the pencil! We haven’t produced them in a number of years, but there might still be a few left in storage. If you email info@emriver.com and ask nicely we’ll see what we can do! 🙂