I Am So Old ...

At senior school where we were allowed pens - they were fountain pens and our desks had a small metal pot with a sliding metal lid in which was kept the liquid ink. Later on they developed cartridge pens.

 

we never had the ink in school, not even way back in 1953 when i started kindergarten. except in mechanical drafting class in high school.
back when drafting was done with t-squares and latter those arm things, before, long before computer drafting or anyone had their own computers to run it on.

 

I used to have several of those drawing tool sets... I used them too.

 

me three. i agree with meagain though. when working for myself or the one time i was commissioned by a client, i descovered reinforced nib felt pens in graduated line weights. i think stadler made some. but i did have probably that exact same set in the picture, except i thing i only ever bought one. built my own drafting table with bolts and 2x2s so i could take it apart to move. bought one of those drafting arm things too, way better then t-square and triangles. that was when we still didn't have computers yet.

 

I can remember the delight of finding out my girlfriend wore a garter belt and nylons….the days before pantyhose! More was to be revealed later!

 

now that's one thing i don't believe i ever did have, and at the time, had always wanted one, seeing other people use them, was a leroy lettering set.
i did have the ames lettering guide though.

you know my favorite piece of drafting and drawing equipment, that was the erasing shield. and when synthetic erasers became the better living through chemistry in the 70s,
is was never without one, up until the last few decades now that we can edit our accidental doubling of lines and geometries on the computer.

hadn't thought about this stuff in decades, other then i still do some physical model building from scratch and kitbash, from ideas for designs i get in my head.

now i'm thinking about these things, i also liked the electric erasers, those kind of like a hand held lathe i sometimes thought of them.
just a regular eraser with a motor to spin it. which may not sound like much, but was very very useful.

oh something else i remember now, that's been a while since i had, was that 000 stadler was the perfect tool for making those little tiny pupils in the eyes of role playing miniatures.

 

mine probably got left behind in one of the many relocations in my life.

 

I still find delight on the rare occasions my wife surprises me by wearing garter belt and stockings!

 

I used old spice once upon a time. Nice scent!

 

Our elementary school was really old. Built in like 1929. There were a lot of the original desks, maple flip top lids - but up front was the groove for your pencil or pen plus the hole where the inkwell was. We'd melt crayons on the red hot radiators..

 

Those commercials for Old Spice are hilarious!

 

Me yoo it was my favorite odocolon.