Carpenter drawing and checking wooden project plans in a workshop.

Toolbox History is about the tools we think are “basic”, and why they’ve survived when everything else keeps getting replaced. The carpenter’s pencil is one of the best examples of that. It’s been around for roughly 300 years, and not because builders hate change, but because time, technology, and trends all tried to improve it… and failed. This pencil was designed for real jobsites: rough lumber, stone, brick, wet hands, pockets, drops, and abuse. It doesn’t roll. It doesn’t snap constantly. It

Why the pencil is perfect