We’re 99 Today! CalCedar’s Centennial Year is Upon Us.
Just a quick post to note that today is California Cedar Products Company’s 99th birthday (per our original stock records book of 1st shares issued to company founders right). So we’re now entering our Centennial year in business. Despite the lack of activity here on Timberlines, for quite some time we have been hard at work here […]
The Season of Pencildom Anniversaries
Just a quick note in recognition that today marks the 10th Anniversary of my first ever Timberlines blog post. In that post I mentioned Timberlines was the name of our former company newsletter. We’ve been prepping for a relocation recently and today I unexpectedly came across boxes of the old newsletters and selected a few […]
Erasable Podcast: Liner Notes fom the Zurückbringer
I was very honored to be the guest last night of Andy, Johnny and Tim on their latest Erasable Podcast Episode 14: Incense Cedar House Rules . My guess, given my readership and frequency of posting, is that if you’ve found your way to Timberlines, you probably already know about Erasable. Though, just in case […]
Drawing With History: AOL’s This Built America Covers New Jersey’s General Pencil Co.
We received this press release at Pencils.com this morning. Have posted about this wonderful family and company in the past here. Happy to share another great “pencil success story” of one of our wood slat customers. Find some of General’s great products here on Pencils.com. Congrats Jim, Katie, Kirsten and all… Jersey City, New Jersey […]
What’s your Story? The impact of blogging, social media and podcasts on the analog world of pencils
Last week I was listening to Johnny, Andy and Tim’s Erasable podcast with guest Brad Dowdy. This was the 11th episode in their new endeavor which I find quite interesting, even if I don’t always have time to sit through an entire episode. When I can, I check in on the Erasable Facebook group and […]
Caran d’Ache Offerings Expanding on Pencils.com Store
Earlier this summer our Pencils.com unit began offering a selection of outstanding graphite and color artist pencils from Caran d’Ache, the Swiss producer of extremely high quality art materials and writing instruments. Known as the “Maison of Haute Ecriture” the company’s products feature “Swiss Made” quality, subtle luxury, craftsmanship, authenticity and contemporary personality that set […]
Keeping A Road Trip Journal
Each year Ginger and I take a road trip together in August. This year we’ve headed North to Oregon and I decided to try keeping a road trip journal using one of the beautiful prompted journals from the Journals Unlimited Range we stock on Pencils.com. This is a great series of Journals, each promoted with […]
Introducing the Blackwing Pearl
Recently, our Palomino business unit announced the newest addition to our Blackwing pencil range, the Blackwing “Pearl”. Here is the first photo of the “Pearl” set to make it’s official debut on May 2nd at Pencils.com and other dealers around the world. You can register for the Studio602 newsletter updates at Pencils.com for more information […]
Hough’s American Woods: 141 Incense Cedar
This post initiates an extended project I’ve given long consideration to pursue on Timberlines. That is, writing more extensively on my long running interest in the study of natural history and in particular the history of early naturalists as well as the development of various scientific disciplines within the broad field of natural history. One […]
