What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[kulnet]

Blackwing X TWA Hotel

[Studio97]

Blackwing X TWA Hotel

I think that one is fairly rare.

[Le Vieux]

A very nice Parkette, pair to an even nicer Parker Parkette, pre-war. Leads are 1.18mm, not very hard to get by these days. Works very well, and has a good heft to it.

[MadAmos]

Palomino Blackwing:

• Volume 54
• Volume 811
• TWA Hotel Edition

Zebra Tech Two Way 0.5mm

[1nkulus]

Staedtler Mars Lumograph 3B

[calhoun tubbs]

Eberhard Faber Mongol 482 #1

[a m a r g o]

Pentel Ain Stein 2H, contained in a Caran D’Ache 844...

 

... ideal for papers with a little bit of teedback.

[WarrenB]

Kaweco Skyline 3.2mm in fox red. Bought partly to match with my fox red FP. I've been sketching with it more, recently, and I'm enjoying how much more comfortable a short, chunky leadholder is with the overhand grip, which I'm trying to, ah, get to grips with.

I also like the lead that came with it - what is that, 5B? A good, easy range of tones from it; not too slippery and pale like some hi-B leads. (I'm looking at you, Faber-Castell)

Edited July 11, 2019 by WarrenB

[JakobS]

General's Supreme #2 pencil, a decent overall classic yellow pencil, not exceptional compared to General's Cedar Pointe #2, Caran D'ache's School pencil, or Viking's School pencil, but will get the job done nonetheless....

Edited July 12, 2019 by JakobS

[troglokev]

Faber Castell TK-matic 0.5mm. It was the best around for Engineering Drawing in 1980, and I still haven't found a better mechanical pencil.

[ralfstc]

Vintage Pelikan D800 Green, with 0.5mm Pentel 2B lead. Lovely.

[FOUR X FOUR]

They came with the Hovel pencil plane

[calhoun tubbs]

Eberhard Faber Commerce 395 No2

[ISW_Kaputnik]

One reason I hadn't been using this nice little Parker more often was the eraser, a useless bit of petrified rubber. I couldn't seem to find the right size among my spare erasers, and carving a too large one down to the right size didn't work out so well.

 

Then I realized that I had a tube of spare Bic erasers that were just the right diameter when transferred to the original bracket. Problem solved. And I like the slim size, the .9 mm lead, and the twist mechanism.

[Zookie]

Nataraj Bold

[aderoy]

Faber Castell TK-Fine Vario L 0.5 with 0.5mm F lead.

Staedtler Lignum 0.7mm HB lead.

[flatline]

Steadtler Mars Technico 780 2mm lead holder with Steadtler HB lead.

 

I never seem to stay away from this combination very long. I barely seem to use my other pencils for very long before coming back to the Mars.

 

--flatline

[Studio97]

Found this older Parker pencil in my collection and loaded up with .9 B lead. This pencil was made in the USA. Nice.

[penrivers]

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They came with the Hovel pencil plane

 

Beautiful, xcuse me, how many turns to the right do you give to your pencil inside the sharpener? I found that 3 are the best for a good point.

[calhoun tubbs]

Palomino Blackwing Volume 10 and Caran dAche Edelweiss HB