Hagoromo chalk

[AmandaW]

I didn't know anything about chalk, but love my Tombow Mono 100 2B pencils so much I think I would be hoarding them too if they were to disappear. I found myself nodded in sympathy with these guys. 🙂

 

 

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[Chouffleur]

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Ho loves the chalk for its buttery smoothness. “It’s a lot easier to write with it, so you don’t have to think about writing,” she says. “In fact, I gave a lecture last week, and at first I was using this other chalk, and I felt like I was using 25 percent of my brain thinking about how to press on the board with this giant piece of chalk. At some point, someone in the audience was like, ‘Uh, your chalk isn’t working very well,’ and I was like, ‘Oh! There’s a little piece of Hagoromo, a little stub of Hagoromo on the board, I’ll use this instead’ and it made me feel like the talk went a lot smoother because I didn’t have to think about how I was actually writing on the board.”

 

 

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/hagoromo-chalk-on-amazon.html

[WalterC]

There is a more fundamental problem than chalk: it is getting hard to get decent black boards (I refuse to call them chalk boards). I am a mathematician and working out mathematical ideas on nice slate black board is a pleasure. I am a retired mathematician and would like to get a nice black board for my home, but it has been ages since they were available. I think the best things available now are ceramic on steel, but that is not a good substitute. 

       Ideally, the right way to do mathematics is to work it out on a black board, copy it out with a fine flex fountain pen on good paper, then eventually put it into a computer (currently I use Lyx, a mathematical word processor). The unavailability of good black boards at reasonable price is the equivalent of loving to write with fountain pens but no longer having even lousy paper available.