Added an
Alvin 5022 Constructor package and instructions to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Robert Rogers.
Added a short discussion on
Lead Utilization in thick lead pencils.
Added a boxed
rotring 507 to the Thin Lead Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a box of
Dixon's Eldorado Refill Leads to the Drawing Lead Gallery.
Added a
Baignol & Farjon blotter to the Ad Gallery.
Added a very, very large wooden
A.W. Faber display pencil to the Ad Gallery.
Added a card mounted
Koh-I-Noor “Drafting Assortment” to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
The
Lead and
Lead Pointer databases have been put back online. They are now separate from the
Leadholder Database. I haven’t yet updated the content of the Lead and Lead Pointer lists to accurately reflect the Leaholder.com collections.
Added a one dozen case of
Eagle Turquoise Prestomatic 3377s to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added two color capped
Eagle Turquoise Prestomatic 3378s to the
Drafting Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added yet another variety of
Eagle Turquoise 3375 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a barely presentable
Alvin Tech-DA “De-Lux” to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a
Damascus Sure-Grip 6500 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Paul Hunt.
Added an
Eberhard Faber Microtomic 617 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Paul Hunt.
Added a
rotring PS2 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Added a
Lyra Orlow 6316 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Some of the leadholders that were previously in the thumbnail navigation of the
Drafting
Leadholder Gallery have been moved to the
Non-Drafting Gallery. Notably 2 mm colored lead variants
by
Alvin,
A.W. Faber, and
Eberhard Faber.
Welcome to what the gang down in the marketing department has decided to call
Hard Rubber Barrel Days here at the ol'
Leadholder.
Added a
Hard Rubber Barreled Fedra 7020 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
and a
Hard Rubber Barreled Alvin 5021 C to the Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
and three
Hard Rubber Barreled Renta–Zeichners to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
But, lucky you, that's not all. I also added: Not one. Not two. But– well okay – two packs of
Renta lead to the Drawing Lead Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Finished some major revisions to the navigation for the
Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery and the
Drawing Lead Gallery in anticipation of greatly expanding those areas. They are now both organized according to manufacturer/brand as the
Drafting Leadholder Gallery has always been.
Added a richly leadholdered
1971 Alvin catalog to the Catalog Gallery.
Updated the
1937 Koh-I-Noor Pencil Company catalog in the Catalog Gallery with some additional pages and it has been reformatted in the new catalog page style which includes short text descriptions of items on each page so web indexes like Google will find them.
It takes a very long time to put catalogs on this website. The pages need to be scanned, of course, then the images need to be straightened, cropped, and color adjustments made. Then they get output to a size that is legible on the web but not too big so as to cause unnecessary server strain and download time. Then thumbnail images of each page are created. Then a thumbnail index is made with links to each page. Then the individual HTML pages with the large images are put together. Then the navigation must be updated to link to the new catalog and this "What's New" page is updated. But that's all the easy part.
The really time consuming part is linking the catalog pages that contain items already in the
Leadholder galleries to the corresponding page. Every catalog page is examined and imagemaps are made with hotspots linking to anything and everything relevant. As the
Leadholder collection grows, the more items must be linked to. Then each page that is linked to, must be cross linked back to the catalog in the "See Also" part of each item's description.
I use Dreamweaver to develop
Leadholder and it is one slow motherfucker. All this opening of HTML files and cross linking is very very agonizing within Dreamweaver. You'd think the fucker was rendering a Pixar movie the way it maxes out the CPU cycles just doing the dumbest shit. The Dreamweaver software engineers suck. Really, they do.
Sorry. I hope you find the catalog scans useful. They take a long time to put together.
Added an early example of a
TEC Drafting Lead Holder to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a "flat-head" variant of the
Vemco TEC Drafting Lead Holder to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Paul Hunt.
Added an amazing set of
Winsor & Newton Tubular Drawing Pencils to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Russel Erwin.
Added an
Ecobra leadholder set to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
