Steve in Kokomo wrote that he 

> prefers round wooden pencils to the
> hexagonal variety and [has] trouble finding them

The Galootish thing to do would be to just buy the hexagonal ones and turn them
round using a pole lathe. Or pound them through a dowelling jig. Or what about a
Stanley #77 doweling machine?

Cheers,
Chuck Taylor
grinning, ducking, and running north of Seattle