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2007 January 21 |
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Added two examples of the Kimek 143 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a box for the A.W. Faber Castell 9021 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Added a Pentel Graph Pencil PG2 to the Thin Lead Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Andrey Gordenko. This is the first 0.2 mm pencil in the Leadholder collection.
Added a set of variously sized rotring Compass Pencils to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
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2007 January 20 |
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2007 January 13 |
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The fourth major redesign of Leadholder is now complete. Every single one of the over 800 pages on Leadholder has been updated in one way or another. Many cross references have been added and refined. Many of the dates are now more accurate or at least more authoritatively vague.
The main body text has been adapted to a 600 pixel wide format to make reading easier when the browser’s window width is wide. This was a tradeoff because it destroys the user’s control over the width of the text blocks which I personally found useful when having two Leadholder windows open side by side for comparing items. But in the end, I think the new format will be an improvement in usability.
Each individual item entry now has an associated gray band with a URL linking directly to the page for easy bookmarking (just drag the link somewhere or right click it depending on your OS and browser). Also the new format is more flexible allowing for closely related items, for example flat lead holders and their associated flat leads which work only in those pencils, to be together on a page while also providing a link to both the leadholder thumbnail index and the lead thumbnail index. The gray bands also serve to clearly separate the various items grouped on a page. Additionally, the “specs” of each item have been expanded and standardized to provide quicker access to the information and details about an item.
Many new items have also been added and I’m too exhausted to enumerate them here so just look for the solid gray dots 
next to the new items in the thumbnail indices.
In addition to the editing of content on virtually every page, every page has been renamed. I’ve been wanting to do this for years, but it messes with search engines’ ability to direct people to my site and any bookmarks people have saved to specific pages so I’ve put it off until now. The reason is that all the old page names had underscores in them. For example “lh-draft_stdtlr_780-series.html” would have been the page name for the Staedtler 780 series of drafting leadholders. So what? I’ll goddamn tell you what. double-click on the “780” in the file name above. Standard text behavior dictates that “draft_stdtlr_780” will be selected instead of just the 780. That shit has cost me years of my life by forcing me to carefully position the mouse before the seven and dragging precisely to the end of the zero when I needed to change a page name or link. Never again. I’ve replaced the underscores with dashes. All the page names now use underscores very sparingly and only when I’m likely to want to select the two terms separated by the underscore. In the past I used underscores as though they were spaces that could be used in URLs unlike real spaces. I swear, this used to be sensible, but it seems at some point underscores have come to mean something else. What? I don’t goddamn know. Retards who use ASCII text editors seem to think underscores are some geeky proxy for _italic_ type. Losers. So the short of it is: Google is going to be sending a lot of people to pages that no longer exist until their re-indexing of Leadholder is compete. There are ways to redirect these visitors to the renamed pages, but because every goddamn page has been renamed it’s just too much work, so screw it.
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2006 November 7 |
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Added a 1970s vintage Tombow Mono to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added an Uchida Drawing Holder 848-5000 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a Piper Sketcher to the Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a Tacro Tacombi crazy compass/pencil hybrid to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
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2006 October 22 |
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Added the first round of information about the illustrator/designer Barry Jones who did work for Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph and rotring in the late 1980s to early 90s to the Art of the Leadholder Gallery:
Concept art and final printed brochure for rotring 600 writing (and drawing) instruments.
Added three catalogs to the Vintage Catalog Gallery:
a 1948 Gordon Draftsmen’s Supply Co. catalog.
a 1957 Charles Bruning Co. catalog, courtesy Paul Hunt.
a 1985 Koh-I-Noor Rapidograph catalog.
Added the Tru Point Automatic and Tru Point Technical to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added a nifty slate board marker, the Eberhard Faber 612, to the Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery.
Added several erasers to the Non-Drafting Leadholder Gallery:
Tombow Eraser.
Weldon Roberts Jet
Eraser.
Faber-Castell 7095 Eraser, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
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2006 October 8 |
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Added a 1963–64 Hellerman Ltd. (UK) catalog to the Vintage Catalog Gallery, courtesy David Riches.
Added two Koh-I-Noor pencil extenders, 1098 and 1099 1/2, to the Wood Cased Drafting Pencil Gallery.
Reworked the Venus Lead page adding several styles of packages to the Drawing Lead Gallery.
Added a package of Fedra Constant leads to the Drawing Lead Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Added a boxed example of an early plastic Faber-Castell TK 9400 to the Drafting Leadholder Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
Added an early package of Staedtler Mars leads to the Drawing Lead Gallery, courtesy Allan Macdonald.
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2006 August 21 |
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2006 August 16 |
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2006 August 15 |
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2006 August 2 |
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2006 July 25 |
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2006 July 17 |
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2006 June 30 |
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2006 June 16 |
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. It appears next to gallery entries that include more than the usual dry descriptive facts. There are bits and pieces of historical comments and smart ass remarks sprinkled throughout the Leadholder gallery entries. This should make it a little easier to find them.
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