r/pencils

I love the moment when you realize there is an interesting pencil in $1 bag at the thrift store. Made in Canada in the 50 or 60s. Sharpened by knife a long time ago.

A new friend gave me these in exchange for a bit of handcraft work. I clearly got the better end of the deal. Look at them. Just LOOK at them. Every one of them a literal work of art. (Well, except for the Natural, but that's still elegant in its simplicity.) Even my wife, who views my pencil hoarding with bemusement, agrees that these are simply the coolest. Thanks! (You know who you are.)

I ordered 2 boxes of the newly released seconds color pencils because curiosity was killing me!! I received 16 different colors in the mix, some colors were very sparse and i saw only one or two. I was hoping for some scented or highlighter pencils but there were none. I saw many “Stranger Things” and “Color Pop -Demon hunter (?)” themed ones. I was able to make 2 sets of each using a couple from other themes and using some unnamed colors. I also found some Beatles (wish there were more), Gilmore Girls and Schitt’x Creek. After sorting them out I ended up with half a box of copper!!! The color payoff is good (student grade). Core is thick and soft so they do tend to break. Shipping was steep, around $14! Now I am not sure what to do with them all!! I am not an artist by any means😆!!

I bought my first set of Mitsubishi hi uni. Now, i see why my friend recommended it. It's so smooth! It's not scratchy even if I'm using 4h. I like it. It felt nice to sketch with. I like the lines and how dark it came out.

I'm quite sensitive with texture. I like how the pencil's paint coating isnt sticky. Staedler's feel sticky and i don't like using it. It has a similar feel with blackwing's body.

Good afternoon all, I have this lovely little expanding pencil holder which requires a new nozzle end but I can’t find one anywhere online. Please could someone offer some help?

Bought these as a birthday present for myself. Blackwings are not easy to get in Norway, but I was lucky to get these at a sale.
I write by hand a lot, and I recently changed my preference from writing with mechanical pencils to writing with wooden pencils.
Much more enjoyable, imo, especially with the right tools

Good thing I had my Carl HV-8 with built-in thermometer!

Resale store find. Haven’t sharpened one yet. The box has seen better days and the pencils have some debris on them.

ART DISPLAY! how do you display your pencils? Been collecting for going on my second year and absolutely love it. Researching, hunting and obtaining new pencils. Here are a few ways I display them. ATM I feel I have a good collection and working on setting them up in shadowboxes to display them. Id love to hear and see how you display yours. Also I'd also love to hear how you've found sweet haul.
Not Shown is the LOTR's Blackwing box.

Also working on extra stuff for anyone that wants to trade.
Also i'm buying if anyone has any extra pencils.

I have too much stationery, so today I did a bit of decluttering and donated 5 brand new , unused Pentel mechanical pencils.

Received a box of these yesterday. Lyra, once a German company founded in Nürnberg 1806, produced the Orlow 6300 pencil from the 1920s to the 1990s. The orlow-techno is the last Orlow iteration from 1984, before it got discontinued in the mid 1990s. In 2008 Lyra sadly was sold to the Italian F.I.L.A., loosing all their magic on the way when the brand was brought to the cheap mass-market. The techno writes very nice with a smooth graphite. I also love the design and the font they used!

Just picked these up while on Vacation. Can anyone help to date them?

It's America's 250th anniversary this weekend, figured I'd post more advertisements from an American company that still makes pencils. I think these are all from the 1920s.

I sharpened the pencil on the left with my trusted Mitsubishi KH-20. The pencil on the right came from a hotel and was already sharpened.

I actually like the hotel pencil’s point much better. It’s a little blunter, so it feels less scratchy, but it’s still perfect for writing. The point also protrudes a bit more, which seems to help the point stay usable for a long time.
I’m guessing it was sharpened with some kind of commercial sharpener during manufacturing, but I’d love to recreate the same point on my pencils at home.

Any ideas for a sharpener I could try?

The Mitsu-bishi pencils are the only ones I've voluntarily bought: rest are floor loot or stuff found around my house from previous years where I was agnostic to pencils.

What other pencils or brands should I try next?

It feels so long ago since I moved, but I can finally start breaking out my pencils. Not a huge collection or anything, but good stuff definitely. Can't wait to do more writing and drawing.