It's actually a pencil, but there isn't any wood body that includes the graphite lead. http://www.giardino.it/pens/napkin/IMMAGINI/PerpetuaColori.jpg Its name is Perpetua, made by Napkin (an Italian company, despite its name). It is made of Zantech, an innovative material composed of 80% of recycled industrial graphite that thanks to special rubber polymers is agglomerated into a solid stick. The colored end is a rubber, integrated during the injection phase. It's clean, non-toxic, resilient if dropped or knocked, it can be tempered but writes even without tips. http://www.giardino.it/pens/napkin/IMMAGINI/PerpetuaPart.jpg And I love it! (only black, as far as now)