u/jfanoele

About a month ago I posted Part 1 about receiving a Musgrave Select 885 #3 from eBay and the seller shipped it in a standard envelope you’d receive a utility bill in. This resulted in the pencil snapping in half along the 885 and both pieces somehow sitting under the envelope window in my mailbox 🫠 (picture 2).

Last night, while making some Hackwings, I decided to see if I could fix this pencil using Gorilla brand wood glue (picture 3). I was able to match it together along the broken seam (through the 885 - picture 4), and I think it looks pretty good.

After approx 24 hours drying it feels really solid but I’m going to give it more time before I try to sharpen it or write anything.

I guess I won't quit on this pencil. I just can't do it.

My wife was visiting family in rural Oregon and surprised me with this little $1.25 haul from a local thrift store. What a nice surprise, and it’s neat the sharpener was still with the Pedigree pencil set. Always happy to have another Eagle Mirado and a quality, flat sketching pencil.

I picked up a few of these and was hoping someone could confirm if they are from the WW2 era?

They appear to have plastic ferrules and I’ve only been able to find one other example/image of this pencil with this ferrule.

Also trying to decide if I should sharpen one to try—aside from some Mononas, I think it’s possibly my oldest unsharpened pencil so far. Would you sharpen one?

Thanks in advance!

My friend 3D printed some shavings cans for the Apsara LP sharpener for me and they rock! I found the files from this old Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pencils/s/a3Ijn8h815

I love these sharpeners and they’re the best LP hand-sharpeners at this price point. Highly recommend if you like a LP pencil.

I’ve been buying vintage pencils at various estate sales, a flea market near my house, and now up-cycled art supply stores. I haven’t had much luck at thrift stores here so far. And, probably like a lot of my fellow vintage pencil collectors, I buy them on eBay—typically for unsharpened or NOS pencils.

The bag of pencils pictured are from SCRAP Portland, an upcycled art supply store. They have a huge barrel full of random pencils for $.50 a handful.

Where do you like to buy vintage pencils?

My aim for this post is to get/share ideas for new places to look—in person or online.

I did some writing with this pencil throughout the day and I really like it how it writes, looks, and feels comfortable in hand. The test scoring ferrule on this one is fun, too. Some of the others I got have gold or silver ferrules. I got a chunk of them with a factory seconds order and I’ll definitely be keeping them in rotation.

I’ve been using a KP-77 for a while and stumbled on this smaller, vintage Panasonic KP-123 sharpener on eBay. It’s more compact and the point it makes doesn’t seem as long as the KP-77, but it makes a nice point nonetheless—and—it looks cool in my living room where a pencil can be quickly sharpened without having to leave the couch 😎

Found the pencil in a bag of miscellaneous pencils and pens at an estate sale. It was approx 20% used when I started writing with it, and I surprisingly liked this pencil a lot — a smooth, dark writer. Today the stub goes in the jar with the others from this year.

I got these 2 Bugles in a factory seconds box this week—I’m wondering if any of you think they could be from a new run of holiday pencils coming soon? Or just strange misprints?

I missed out on the holiday pack last time around so I’d love to get one this year.

I traded some vintage pencils for these handmade pencil cups made by fellow subreddit member u/dwasifar. They’re beautiful, well-balanced, and hold pencils perfectly. I have one on my drawing desk and one on the living room mantle. Highly recommend trading with them!

Like the title says, the Musgrave carpenter pencils have been fun for sketching. I’ve been haphazardly sharpening them with a razor knife and doing loose, quick sketches as warmups.

The 998 is easier to sharpen because of the harder graphite (HB?) but the sidekick is more fun for drawing with a darker, softer core.

I wonder if the graphite in the factory seconds carpenter pencils is similar to the 998 (HB?) which seems similar to standard carpenter pencils I’ve used in the past.

Anyone order the factory seconds carpenter pencils before? Any carpenter pencil recommendations for drawing?

Got a single box of Musgrave Factory Seconds with my most recent order and it contained Harvest Pro pencils and a variety of decorative/advertising rounds with the test scoring ferrule. A good box of seconds, I think!

I made another round of extenders with pencils that are comfortable in hand and/or I like how they look. I have some small bins of stubs from my own writing/drawing or used pencils I’ve bought —so I run quite a few stubs in my rotation. I have one more batch of extenders planned and that will probably be the last batch (unless I get antsy and turn these back into pencils, and make new extenders again).

Tools used: toothpicks, wood glue, 8mm die, sandpaper.

Finally got a handful of these—wowza, I really like this pencil. I’ve always loved the natural pencil with a green eraser, and the green foil lettering looks great. More importantly it writes well.

I hope Musgrave brings these pencils back.

If anyone has any of these for trade, feel free to message me 😎

The incredible feeling when you get a pencil down to the stub is hard to describe to people who don’t care about pencils so I’m posting a new stub here—

what do you all do with your stubs?

Working on a handful of new Hackwings and I like how this one turned out. This pencil is also just a really nice writer. Maybe a bugle next? What might be some cool Hackwings?

I recently got this single pencil (Activity No. 2) with some other pencils, and I like it a lot. After various searches I can’t figure out who made it. Due to the name of it, so much other stuff comes up during searches.

Does anyone know who made it?

Checked out a weekly flea market on the other end of Portland last Sunday morning and bought every pencil I could find—$13 total spent. Most of them were buried in tubs full of tools and random stuff. It was fun looking around for them and I think I’d go back. Finding a Futura stub was a good sign I think.

Ordered a Musgrave’s Select 885 #3 for the vintage Musgrave collection I’m working on and the eBay seller really went above and beyond shipping this pencil 👀 🤯

Has this happened to anyone else here?

Enjoying these pencils very much after doing some writing and sketching with them this morning. I picked up a handful of them from eBay. I just started collecting vintage pencils last year — any similar recommendations from this era or earlier?