Which are your favorite lead pointers and pencil sharpeners?

[Lithium466]

13 hours ago, Estycollector said:

What eraser do you prefer? I've always used a Pink Pearl, but the white erasers that come on the Mitsubishi 9850 work nicely. 

Tombow Mono in various variants (regular and the Smart for precise erasing), or the equivalent by Seed (radar). 

The Tombow Mono Smart would be the closest to the Mitsubishi 9850 eraser I think, probably even better.

[jebib111]

Here's my geek contribution to the discussion and hope for advice.  I have yard o lead pencils with 1.18 leads.  Whenever I see them offered for sales the pictures show them with a lead that looks like a needle.  How do they do that?  Thank you!

[Doug C]

29 minutes ago, jebib111 said:

Here's my geek contribution to the discussion and hope for advice.  I have yard o lead pencils with 1.18 leads.  Whenever I see them offered for sales the pictures show them with a lead that looks like a needle.  How do they do that?  Thank you!

I have a yard o led and I can get that point with a 2mm sharpener.

[Claes]

@jebib111 Or perhaps they have a brass sharpener such as this

https://mechanicalpencilmuseum.blogspot.com/2013/05/faber-castell-minfix-5065.html

 

Have fun!
Claes in Lund, Sweden

[jebib111]

Thank you both for your help.

[Anne-Sophie]

On 12/18/2023 at 5:15 PM, Estycollector said:

I am sorry to have missed your post. What eraser do you prefer? I've always used a Pink Pearl, but the white erasers that come on the Mitsubishi 9850 work nicely. 

 

Tombow Mono because it works with every lead holding instruments I use.

 

I have a Pink Pearl in my most used lead writing instruments pencil case.

 

I made the mistake of using no-name pink erasers, one of them smeared my writing extremely badly.  I have them out of the pencil case, they make great separators/cushion between metal pens.

 

 

 

 

[Anne-Sophie]

On 12/16/2023 at 9:17 PM, PAKMAN said:

 

That is an impressive "sharpener"!

 

I learned to use kitchen knives like chefs do, however, I now use a fork to grab the food item, it doesn't look as cool but I am no longer afraid for my knuckles.

 

Despite being forcefully taught, by the nun in charge of art classes, that art knives and sand paper were superior to all sharpeners, I used and still prefer, the latest, when making artwork.

 

When I took a cartography class, right before the discipline became digital for the most advanced classes and publications by professors and hybrid for everyone else.

The very talented teacher insisted we use sand paper files to sharpen our pencils and Rotring art/architecture designs ink pens, a nightmare to refill in permanent black ink, which could only be scraped with a razor blade, in case of error.

 

It was so exasperated, I told him computer will take over cartography, very soon.

 

Not very nice of me, but it proven to be true shortly after I took the class.

 

I also used my lead holder instead of wood pencils to do my cartography homework.

 

Less waste, much easier and faster to sharpen than regular pencils, especially when tired.

 

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

DUX baclite pencil sharpener. The top is a figure 8 of two sizes..age...'20-30-60's.

The inkwell if 3x3, 4 1/2 high. 800 silver top.

I don't use pencils...and I had a small much more primitive pencil sharpener than I used in the '50's but I gave it away with a pencil box to the kid upstairs.

The odd real fat MP, I kept. The box had a ruler on it, that a school kid could possible use. I put a few old odd's and ends in the pencil box. He enters first grade in the fall.

[Anne-Sophie]

11 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

DUX baclite pencil sharpener. The top is a figure 8 of two sizes..age...'20-30-60's.

The inkwell if 3x3, 4 1/2 high. 800 silver top.

I don't use pencils...and I had a small much more primitive pencil sharpener than I used in the '50's but I gave it away with a pencil box to the kid upstairs.

The odd real fat MP, I kept. The box had a ruler on it, that a school kid could possible use. I put a few old odd's and ends in the pencil box. He enters first grade in the fall.

 

It is lovely gift for a school age child!

 

I am always grateful that I learned about lead holders, early enough that I could use them at school. So much handier than wood pencils.

 

I also, fairly recently, a couple of years, at most, discovered that I can buy individual watercolor pencils and color pencils.

 

Than you for your beautiful pictures Bo Bo!

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I had three of the similar pencil holders, but that one had the ruler.

I ended up with many pencil holders...well considering I never chased them...many.

The ruler one.

The three are slightly different.

Non school kid pencil holders.

 

 

[Anne-Sophie]

We had similar ones as the one with a ruler.

 

I always thought they were portable pens holders, as in, dip pens holders with the recessed round area, for a mini inkwell.

 

 

[Doug C]

9 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I had three of the similar pencil holders, but that one had the ruler.

I ended up with many pencil holders...well considering I never chased them...many.

The ruler one.

The three are slightly different.

Non school kid pencil holders.

 

 

That last one is sublime. 

[Bo Bo Olson]

18 minutes ago, Doug C said:

That last one is sublime. 

It is a fine wood, the first one's flowers are intarsia inlays.

I do like find woods.

This is a burl veneer cedar lined cigar humidor.

 

1925 French Birds Eye maple veneer.

[Doug C]

1 hour ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

It is a fine wood, the first one's flowers are intarsia inlays.

I do like find woods.

This is a burl veneer cedar lined cigar humidor.

 

1925 French Birds Eye maple veneer.

REALLY nice!

[Anne-Sophie]

I posted the image, just when a nearby clap of thunder, forced me to check my weather map, instead of completing the post.

 

I have to say that I am impressed by your collection of pencil cases. My favorite is the inlaid one but I also like the dark wood and inside organization of the "pencil" one, because the inside compartment is lighter in the areas it would have been picked up, it seems that color was achieved by staining or painting the box.

 

The close up picture of that pencil case doesn't work, I was wondering if we could see the inside close up.

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I may have three or four pencils....outside a small unused box of Ebarhard Faber Van Dyke (sharpened) pencils, 1007-HB.

It's pre-bar-code....but has no price shield on it.

[Anne-Sophie]

On 5/23/2024 at 2:52 AM, Anne-Sophie said:

I posted the image, just when a nearby clap of thunder, forced me to check my weather map, instead of completing the post.

 

I have to say that I am impressed by your collection of pencil cases. My favorite is the inlaid one but I also like the dark wood and inside organization of the "pencil" one, because the inside compartment is lighter in the areas it would have been picked up, it seems that color was achieved by staining or painting the box.

 

The close up picture of that pencil case doesn't work, I was wondering if we could see the inside close up.

 

 

 

 

 

Thank you for the close up picture!

 

You and your wife have such great taste choosing decorative useful objects!

 

Thank you for sharing them!

 

 

 

 

[Bo Bo Olson]

I must say much of my taste was learned from my wife. She was already hooked with antiques before I met her two weeks after she turned 21.

 

And she is/was the Bic warmed worm for the early bird's warm breakfast, flea market goer. I'm too lazy to get up that early unless it's us that is selling.

[Anne-Sophie]

3 hours ago, Bo Bo Olson said:

I'm too lazy to get up that early unless it's us that is selling.

 

Yep, not early birds either.