

¿Qué? Special Grade 660? What was a “660?” What it was, it turns out, was a mistake. Calculator Special Grade No 660 Lot 11 Original Box I was innocently minding my own business one day when I was assaulted by this eBay auction title: We will probably see it back on shelves before the end of the year! More on this later, but let’s get back to the original description of how hell has frozen over. After I submitted the first, something else happened that I doubted would ever occur: General Pencil Company advised Gary Varner of Notegeist that our pleas have been answered and the General’s Cedar Pointe #333-1 will have a second life. You’re reading the second version of this review. If that day comes, Hunter and I will sign ourselves out of the nursing home, come back to my den, blow the dust off the old computer and we’ll let you know where the third of Steinbeck’s favorite pencils falls in our list.įriends, hell hath frozen over, and not just once, but twice. You know I never lie about these things, so believe me when I tell you that this is the end of our pencil reviews, unless and until I happen across a Blaisdell Calculator 600, that most rare of Steinbeck-sanctioned pencils. (This is another fanfreakingtastic piece from Stephen Watts, whose efforts for Pencildom do nothing short of blow my mind!)įrom the June 2015 Father and Son Pencil Review V:
