I haven't seen the USA gold in stores at all. It seems Wal-Mart only really carries the USA titanium. However, these do still appear to be produced as I found a few listings on amazon.
MAMO - Beautifully displayed and beautifully shared with us! Looks like a fun place to visit (well, for me at least) and a good reason to stop in Logan, Ohio - a nice weekend trip from Detroit. Thanks so much!
One of my favorite inexpensive US made pencils! The natural version is especially nice looking. Thanks for shining a light on these pencils, MAMO. The USA Gold (and Platinum) pencils are a good value, and I think they are always darker and smoother than a Ticonderoga. But that Tennessee Red! That's just a treat! Thanks for another fun review!
I’m a parishioner of an Ordinariate parish and Divine Worship Daily Office has transformed my daily prayer life. I love it, particularly the way it walks through the Bible each year.
Do they smell like cedar? Also anti microbial so when you chew on it you don't get sick, and they are "green" using scraps to make them. #1 sustainable pencil (actually a #2). USA USA Have fun.
I saw this and it blew my mind. I recently bought a vintage mechanical pencil and stumbled across your video on testing the lead widths. I clicked on your channel to see what other pencil content you have, and I see that you have a video on my prayer book! Coincidence can be pretty funny. Good videos!
Your reading of the Message reminds me of how beautiful it is ("knocked tyrants off their high horses") and how brilliant it is ("I'm bursting with God news"). If you translate the language from the original, you don't get the Message as a result. But if you study the language and interpret the heart of what Bible says, you will eventually get the Message. It doesn't get the credit it deserves as a masterpiece of a paraphrase.
@@joest.eggbenedictus1896 There's no accounting for taste, my brother. I hold a slightly differing opinion, I'm afraid. That being said: I was reading the Psalms from the Ronald Knox translation today and had a thought: Is Eugene Peterson just a more modern, Protestant Knox? Is Knox simply Peterson in a guilded mirror? Hmmm...
I'd go with the X&Y graph, but I'd make it a scatter plot because it seems to me there are beautiful translations that lack accuracy (RSB) and accurate translations that lack beauty (NASB). But one of those categories is subjective and the other often debatable, so everyone's graph is bound to look different!
I guess that is why I have 20+ translations. I don't like what gender neutrality is doing to some of the newer versions, with Human Being, Human, Mortal replacing Man etc. It ruins much of the poetic nature of the verses. I do like reading the original Living Bible for ease and it does flow well, but NKJV /NASB are my "Study" Bibles. take care
I have been reading some of the ASV lately, and I find it a really baffling translation. I liken it to a platypus. It is very much "king james" in its keeping of elizabethan english, but yet attempts to go more literal in some places, modernizes some places yet leaves some archiac which makes no sense (emerods for instance is changed in some places yet not others), tweak the text criticism in the NT and the Jehovahs of the OT it really baffling. I have heard it decried for its literalness, yet in some places I would argue it retains much of the beauty, while in others yes indeed it gets a little wonky. But I think it worth a pause to consider how even in 1901 they felt the beauty of the KJV necessary for retaining if there was going to be a replacement for the "standard". I fear now that word, though plastered on pert near every translation, has become utterly meaningless.
@@ma-mo from what I have heard it was pretty well received in academic circles, but the common people stuck with the KJV. I think the ESV has the closest potential for becoming a "standard" today, but their incessant updating of it drills a hole in their own boat. Having the bible chase the culture becomes a dog chasing its own tail.
Thanks you. I was waiting for you to draw an x and y slope, as well as wondering if you have read Robert Alter's books on biblical translation. I would be a big of a rebel, of course, and argue that the texts available to the translators of the KJV were in no way infeior to the fashionably *scholarly* translations of the twentiety century. What you didn't discuss was the physical beauty of the Bible, which I think is also important. The Message--and I recently gave my copy to the local thrift and instantly regretted it because that meant someone else might be infected by it--was I killing grandma?--is a beautifully laid out, imho, book, but otherwise obominable. Nice pencil, btw. I find that I rather like using my newly-acquired Nicpro even though I think my also newly-acquired Scripto is nicer to behold. I don't know about the whole mad world, but as for me and the tincan, we wil be saved by beauty.
A pondering that recently bounced in my noggin, having listened to a lot of pro KJV arguments, they vaunt up the notion of God's preserving his word in the text used by "the church" to which they point to Byzantium, while completely throwing out everything else about the church. So God used the church to preserve his Word, but in everything else it is reprobate. It creates this image that "the church at antioch" was an independent fundamentalist Baptist church singing old rugged cross in 350 A.D.
@@ColinV03 I think you're reading something that I'm not writing. It ain't the pentecostal baptists at antioch that I distrust, but Westcott and Hort and Co.
@@dalecaldwell and perhaps my words aren't as clear as they should be. My apologies. I do share your distrust of Wescott, Hort, and the legion of doom. I was having a bit of a stream of consciousness rant noticing a strange contradiction of some to rightly question the one, and then to bite the hand that feeds them on the other. Hopefully that clears some things up.
@@dalecaldwell I've not read Alter's translation writings, but I shall certainly keep my eyes open for a copy. I'm also looking for a used Ronald Knox "On Englishing the Bible"; they used to come free as a paperback with Knox's Bible, but mine didn't have it. That NicPro pencil is for the fingers what ankle weights are for mall-walkers' legs: a bit of exercise during your normal daily rituals.
Never knew this place existed, next time in Ohio I'll look it up. Enjoyed the cast iron ones and the globes. So many I've never thought they would make sharpeners out of. I did have a small TV set shaped one as a kid with a Lenticular 3D face that changed when moved. This was a fun video
People have forgotten the value of a battery powered radio. In an emergency, these little radios will keep you informed and entrained. Battery draw is very low for these radios, so they will last a very long time on a fresh pair of batteries. Everyone (specially today) should have a few of these in their prep kit.
Yes, a mystery! I've never heard of Carney Pencil Co. and can't find any references for them. It certainly didn't perform as expected - it should have been much darker than a standard-issue Ticonderoga. Very strange. But thanks for sharing this mysterious pencil with us - a fun review, as always!
Well, I have nothing to say about the core grade test. This is definitely not a 3B in darkness, for sure. Who knows maybe this false advertising _was_ what got Carney to fold. That or lack of quality control in general.
I don't know how you do it, but you can make a pencil video interesting. I saw a very interesting short on a vintage sharpener but couldn't figure how to share it. Take care
So, Confraternity left an incomplete OT translation? Shame. The rest of the OT books is Douay Rheims translation. Better than the successor NAB any day of the week
Superb! Back when quality was made in the USA 🇺🇸 I’m 52 and usually used Eagle / Berol Black Warrior pencils #372-2 until switching to a mechanical pencil in the 7th grade (Pentel 205) using darker 2B lead. I always liked round pencils better than hexagon pencils. I also prefer the Pentel White eraser as it doesn’t leave smudges.
@@ChadQuick270W I'm about your age; when I switched to mechanicals, I used the Scripto Classic. It's still one of my favorites. Only recently have I begun to appreciate the iconic P200 series Pentels.
@@ma-mo I remember my father always used a Scripto mechanical pencil as he had some so all of his like. He was a machinist and was used to that pencil. I’ve always been a “pen and pencil” fanatic I guess you could say. I was in office supplies for 12 years and liked the samples the sales people always brought me :)
Neat pencil. I like the fact that it’s 2B lead. Kind of reminds me of the Fisher Space Pen and the Papermate Power Plant Pen that would write at any angle.
Great review of a classic pencil. I do agree as I like a 0.3mm or 0.5mm lead in 2B. Berol made quality pencils in the Verithin and Prismacolor line as well back in the day. The Pentel P205 is a classic for sure.
I use my copy to prepare myself for what the future will hold for all of us Christians as we march closer and closer to the End Times. Honestly, this book is frightening in content and message, but keeping our eyes upon Jesus brings joy even in the tough time ahead. Thank you for the review.
Definitely the Midori Brass pencil knock-off :) Looks identical actually. Lovely collection of bullet pencils. That school one with the reminders on it is fantastic! What a lovely little thing to give a child before starting school.
Hi MAMO - I like the look of the new one! I don't have a single bullet pencil in my collection, but I can see why these seem to be wildly collectable. Thanks for showing your collection - seems like the Midwestern plain states are well represented! Always fun watching!
@@AlwaysAnalog I'm sure there's a reason there are so many mid-American and agricultural bullets, and less for other areas and industries, but I haven't figured it out.
Yep, the text in Japanese gives it away. Only Midori Paper does that... except they also take care to translate it to English properly, with correct capitalization and grammar.
Hi there,around minute 7.28....it's not spanish,you must learn romanian language :) Yes,Radio Romania has a strong tradition. Warmest regards from Romania, Antonio Stanca
So, you have almost pursuaded me to buy a pencil. I was thinking of a Scripto mechanical pencil, but they seem to be only available on the antique market. So, I wonder if you have an opinion about Staedtler mechanical penciils.
Interesting to see Staedtler make such a barebones, pure-funtion pencil after so many fancier detailed ones. I don't mind if their price is comparable to other budget Ali pencils; if it's higher, forget it, I'm not paying for the brand name alone. Seems to be 2B as advertised. It's subtly but visibly darker than the Noris B. Between the Delis and the Reynolds and others, you've tested a number of these soft-core budget pencils recently. Is it possible for you to do a shootout between them, using the same paper over the same writing surface for consistency? Would be interesting to see and hear from you which are darker, which glide better, and other factors.
Aliexpress is one of my favorite websites. I found these for a 12 pack for a dollar or two! On the topic of the grade, I have a No. 1 Mirado Classic 174 and that says it's a 2B.
