Continuing our evaluation, we are going to look at two more aspects of the top modern Japanese pencils.
Erasure (10 points) (Line - 5 points, Block - 5 points)
We’ve already established that erasure is a question of at least three factors - pencil, paper, and eraser (there may also be hidden factors like temperature and […]
One of pencil talk’s most popular subjects has been Japanese pencils. Made to extremely high standards, these pencils are the preferred working tools of many artists, drafters, and other professionals around the globe. Thanks to the world wide web, it’s now possible for those of us outside Japan to acquire these first rate writing […]
Courtesy of the Czech Business Weekly, an interesting read on pencils from the home of Koh-I-Noor Hardmuth.
I can’t read much of it, yet it seems to speak very well to many interests of mine.
Red and blue pencils, leadholders, quirky office accessories - they’re all here, and featured prominently.
The magazine is in Japanese, with about 150 glossy pages crammed full of photos of woodcase pencils, mechanical pencils, leadholders, erasers, sharpeners, staplers, hole […]
Mechanical pencils with multiple usable leads can be seen at online auction sites or at the uncomfortable chair, though I have never previously seen one in person.
I also remember school days, when those Bic four colour ballpoints became popular.
My opinion was that they were a gimmick - a solution to no particular problem.
So when I […]
This is the first post in a series about the Timberlines Pencil Collection.
The collection name is improvised - the pencils are a large set of Japanese woodcase pencils that were featured on the Timberlines blog in 2006, so I thought that calling it the Timberlines Pencil Collection was a fitting tribute.
The set is housed in […]
The name is pure marketing, since the pencils are not Canadian in any meaningful way. Sold in Canada by Papermate, a brand of Sanford, which is a division of Newell Rubbermaid, these are everyday office pencils.
They are offerered in two varieties - a typical yellow office pencil finish, and an unvarnished “Naturals” version.
There is one […]