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That's so cool...I love when people are so passionate about trying something new that they just use whatever they can get their hands on to see if it can work.
I’m a math major and I use this chalk!!! I spend a lot of time in the math department doing problems and this is the only chalk I borrow from my professor lol
@@theeveoftime2052 compared to the cheap crap it is, but well made things tend to last a good long while before needing replacement so you both get more value and a better product
I’m unbelievably happy that Hagoromo found a successor to carry the torch. It’s easily the best chalk I’ve ever used, I buy it regardless of how much more expensive it is. Also, the rest of the world needs to step it up because Japan makes the best writing instruments. Germany is in like a distant second but it’s just not very close.
I'm from germany and I don't know if I would say the same. You get everything for enough money, and with the globalization stuff is very rarely produced in one place. As far as I can tell, germany doesn't have much industry for basic resources, we gave up steel which we now import cheaply from china, and I wouldn't trust a lot of products which advertise with "Made in Germany", they are often cheaply produced in other less wealthy countries where production is cheaper, and just shipped to germany to be assembled, this is only done to qualify for the "Made in Germany". Wages in this country are as high as the costs, and it was always the top priority of companies to maximize the profit. It is true though that you get really amazing quality stuff over here, but it is expensive as hell, the workers and machines have to be paid and maintained.
@@GHOSTTIEF That's actually true, but I feel like most stuff again is produced in other parts of the world, the wages are so high that most common work is not able to balance it out without making losses. That's why our politics is so keen on migration, because these people often come from countries with very low wages and can be paid criminally low, and would do work which most "germans" don't want to do, we would have to significantly reduce our standards of living for this. That's a reason why I don't like our politics, they don't try to really solve the problems (the need to have well-paid jobs to afford living in a "normal" standard), but rather use innocent people to hide them.
@@isobelesperanza may i ask why does it make you gag? Sorry if it’s a ignorant question can’t tell if you’re being literal I don’t like the feel of regular chalk or the sound it makes.
Imagine if all businesses were run this way. Given to the person most likely to do the best with it and carry it on without ruining it with their own ideas
Everything japanese made is a guaranteed high quality stuff. My illustrator friend only used eraser from Japan, she hoard it lol. I used a mascara from japanese brand, it was so easy and good I never use others.
@@Magami31 there’s a few countries in this world, Japan, France and Germany come to mind, where craftsmanship and the spirit of the item are more important than profit and mass production. I have been using a Japanese skincare brand DHC for over a decade I love them!
I remember one of my professors was running an underground chalk business to other professors since she had bought enough to last her for 10 years if she was careful.
This makes so much sense. When I was a kid, some of my teachers had this amazingly smooth, creamy chalk that just glided on the board like butter. It was lovely. Whereas some others had this crumbly, scratchy, awful chalk. I always just figured that the nicer chalk was just fresher and that maybe as it dried up, it got crumbly and gross. But now I'm thinking that some of my teachers just went out of their way to buy the better chalk.
There are two materials used for chalk, calcium carbonate (actual chalk) and gypsum. Gypsum is way cheaper, but calcium carbonate is smoother. It used to be easier to find the nice chalk, but these days you have to go out of your way.
So true! I remember one of my teacher in middle school took a steel box from his bag. From that box he took a chalk. I remember why he do that when there is a chalk available on the board. He never took that other chalk. When he runs out, he always take one from his box. Now I know, not all chalk is the same.
I actually had heard of this, but as someone who's homeschooled I never gave it much thought. But this is super awesome to hear about. Always a shame to hear about a longstanding and beloved company go out of business. I'm happy to hear that the legacy of this seemingly insignificant yet influential company still lives on.
Figures, it would be another thing CNN got wrong. By shuttering GBS and not their garbage cable news hosts. They would have made so much more revenue if they kept GBS and most importantly, reported factual research and not half true fabricated stories that they’ve been caught in almost every other week. The Criminal/Crap News Network. For the record, before someone gets their undies in a twist I don’t watch Fox either. Reporters lost their way years ago.
I love how he sold the business to someone of a different nationality. He trusted that what was more important was that the person was passionate, rather than the person was born in the same country. A rare thing.
I saw read an article sometime ago telling the story of how that transpired. The owner's kid(s) didn't want to continue the business and wanted to closed the business permanently. He would rather end the lineage than selling it to other company to end up ruining the quality much less allow other country to continue his legacy. The Korean professor was sincere and the owner saw it in him to change his mind. All these weebs talking crap about Japan vs Korea are seriously undermining the original owner's faith in the new owner's continuing tradition.
The animosity between our two ethnicities is quite understandable given our shared histories which is so full of conflict, so this is quite wholesome and touching. 🇰🇷 🇯🇵
I always wondered how the hell people made decent chalk drawings. I wasn’t aware there were high grades of chalk, but that makes sense. Pretty much all art mediums have a cheap and expensive version, and usually the expensive version works the best. Just kinda how the art world is. You’re paying for quality. I think that’s fair tbh.
As a math major, I MUCH prefer Hagoromo to any other brand of chalk. If you're going to spend a good portion of you life doing math on a chalkboard, you might as well enjoy the experience.
I remember hearing about this in 2015 that was crazy seeing so many teachers buying bulk or being sad that this had shut down. Glad this is still going
Fascinating. I'm so glad he sold the business. For teachers and professors who use this chalk, it was so important. The quality is so much higher. It is so much easier to see on the chalkboard, too, which is important for students.
Ivy League and really old schools still use chalk and boards for some departments. You can see it on RU-vid they even have the sliding boards which is really cool.
For a dried dry-erase pen, you can tie a string on the back and whirl it around like a helicopter to force ink back into the tip. Make sure to put tape over the holes in the cap to prevent splatter.
It’s so cool that it still exists! I Remember reading about that back then and thinking what a shame it was that it would get lost. Even if I don’t use or need chalk at all there’s something beautiful about such perfected artisanship
The recipe aside, the machine and the mixing process and techniques is what allowed the mix to be that perfect. I scrolled down the comments to find that the type of mixing machine used for this brand is used for many other stuff in other industries first and the fact that regular chalk is mass produced in less than a day compared to this brand.
Anyone else get cold shivers from seeing the chalk write, like you hate the feeling of halk writing so much your body just reacts to even seeing it being done?
I work in schools i haven't seen a chalk board in years. These days its all white boards and markers. The only thing we use chalk for is letting the kids draw on the asphalt.
Secret formulas like this should have to be deposited into a secure bank for safe keeping. Just in case the people who know the secret formula die, the formula won't die with them.
One of my teachers in Highschool had a classic black slate chalkboard and used hagaromo, hands down the BEST chalk to ever be created. Way better than dry erase markers, nothing will compare to the tactile feedback of drawing on a chalkboard with hagaromo.
Can I point out that a Japanese man entrusted his company's legacy to a Korean man? It makes my heart happy that something as deceptively simplistic as chalk could be a bridge between two men of cultures not known for their beautiful and peaceful relationship with one another
That was the smartest business move ever. They announce they’re shutting down, let all the math professors buy up their remaining stock at full price… then just continuing to make it under another company.
Not precisely the brilliance of New Coke v. Classic Coke-- since it may have been the only move to keep the business viable at all; this essentially happened to American cars as an example.
Transitions are expensive. If they didn’t do this, he wouldn’t have been able to A. Find the person he could trust enough to carry on the company or B. have the money to completely restart manufacturing in a different location
Math student here. Mathematicians do actually use Hagoromo. A professor of mine, Benson Farb, was part of that panic buy of the original Japanese Hagoromo and has dozens of cases.
Japanese stationaries are simply amazing! And you know the quality is impeccable when something as mundane as writing with a good pen could bring ypu simple joy.
I love that stuff like this happens in our world. Humans are so odd sometimes, but in a good way (again, sometimes), and this can make our little antics so very amusing.
By the time i graduated high school in 2012, almost every classroom was using smart boards. 😢 and if they didnt have a smart board, they had dry erase boards. I miss the chalkboards of my elementary school and middle school days.
You have absolutely no idea how much of a difference this kind of chalk would have made in the several math and science courses I enrolled in. I might have actually stayed in the engineering program if this chalk was available to my professors and if they knew how to write words legibly
I mainly do art with graphite, charcoal, colored pencils, and watercolor. But, sometimes I get a wild hair and want to make something expressive and abstract. I can do that with my normal supplies, but they each have their own drawbacks. For these occasions I love to use my hagoromo chalks on paper. It's fast and loose and can lay down an impressive amount of color in one or two strokes. I have to blend with a paper towel or tortillon l, but that's not too big of a deal. And it erases perfectly. The only downside is that the artwork is pretty delicate so it needs a varnish to be safe for handling. I recommend it for anyone looking for a wilder, more colorful and expressive style
out of all the math teachers/professors the most learning i did was when they used literally any type of technology to display math. like even if the chalk is great that doesn't mean it's going to have great contrast on a dusty old chalkboard. The elmo was great, some teachers wrote on a pad connected to the computer, others just got good with the mouse. recently with online learning most teachers can just use a second webcam to view a notebook like the elmo projector. even dry erase is great because nobody is sneezing all over the board if they had to finish a problem. also most teachers only had white chalk. the only time i found chalk nice to look at was when a teacher used sidewalk chalk that was in all different colors.
It has been many a year since any of my instructors actually used a chalk board. Dry erase boards, with their higher contrast and broader availability of different marker colors, quickly took over, followed by overhead projectors and then to digital projections. Even so, I can see the appeal of these for instructors who still prefer to use chalk boards, particularly at the collegiate level.
so that beautiful piece of chalk i once had was hagoromo! holy shit i spent literally months trying to figure out why my one piece of chalk (that i totally didnt steal from school and thats why i didnt have the box) was so good but couldnt find anything about it hagoromo is really that kind of thing that you not only notice a difference immediately but absolutely destroys the competition.
I grew up with chalkboards.. but as I got older, they were getting replaced by white boards.. but now that is is replaced by smart boards, it's funny how chalk is just something for kids now.. but that hagaromo chalk looks amazing
