I thought the whole point was that nobody knows how to make the pencil we think of as a regular pencil. There's the graphite core, the wood handle, the yellow

I thought the whole point was that nobody knows how to make the pencil we think of as a regular pencil. There's the graphite core, the wood handle, the yellow paint, the eraser and the little metal ring holding the eraser. No one person knows how to find, extract and refine the raw materials, then turn them into those components and put it all together.