Pencil makers grind graphite and clay together into a mixture that looks like dough. They pour this mixture into a machine
that has holes in it, the size of pencil leads. Another machine presses down on the mixture to push it out through the holes. It comes out inlong srings that are put into an oven to dry.After the leads are dry, the pencil makers lay them inside grooves in a wooden block. Then they glue another wooden block over the leads.
Next, they send the blocks through a machine that cuts them into shiny, new pencils-just like the ones you use to make marks.
