Comments on: Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil – 1

By: Gary

Gary — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:40:17 +0000

I hate to revive old threads, but recently i started to collect PP’s and i need this version of the green PP for my collection. I will pay a very fair price

By: Graf von Faber-Castell Platinum Perfect Pencil « Pencils and Music

Graf von Faber-Castell Platinum Perfect Pencil « Pencils and Music — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 02:07:05 +0000

[...] Here is a link to a series of reviews over at PencilTalk. [...]

By: Tony Ziegler

Tony Ziegler — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:15:46 +0000

I received a little plastic perfect pencil at a pen fair at Fountain Pen Hospital in NYC last year and I can not use any other pencil

it is perfect and the eraser is the best

By: The perfect pencil? « Quo Vadis Blog

The perfect pencil? « Quo Vadis Blog — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 13:28:45 +0000

[...] I didn’t buy in Vienna, though I was tempted: the Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil, reviewed extensively at pencil talk and much discussed elsewhere, as well. The idea is appealingly simple — take a [...]

By: Seamus

Seamus — Mon, 24 May 2010 18:29:39 +0000

This 9000 version of the Perfect Pencil is, to me, so far the best all around version for daily carry and use. Its light weight goes almost unnoticed in the pocket and it is always there when I need it. In my workshop I keep 3 or 4 of my pencils topped off with one of these delightful wonders as it’s in the shop where a fellow really needs a sharp pencil when he needs a sharp pencil. I must have at least 20 other sharpeners placed strategically throughout my shop but they hardly ever see use as a sharpener on the pencil itself is just so much handier and useful. The only complaint I have about this version of the Perfect Pencil is that it is so easily lost in piles of wood and chips due to its color, I must have misplaced 3 or 4 of these already. But if I put a bright colored pencil like an Araishu red ,more of an orange to us westerners, Palomino in the Perfect Pencil 9000 then it is the perfect shop pencil. But now dear friends there is hope for us woodworkers and nature lovers who love our Perfect Pencils but tend to lose them to clutter and piles of similarly colored objects. The illusive Perfect Pencil Juniors, for lack of a definative name, come in black blue and red, especially red. And if our kindly PencilTalk Administrator would point us in the direction of where to find the Chicken Coop Perfect Pencils in his Perfect Pencil post number 6 then we shall have three more variations that are not so easily lost in the shop or out in nature.

By: The Perfect Pencil

The Perfect Pencil — Thu, 21 May 2009 16:41:40 +0000

[...] loved the plastic one, but gave it to Tara Hunt at a conference, so I bought the metal one after that, which is pictured [...]

By: NIKOLAI GOODMAN

NIKOLAI GOODMAN — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 03:27:06 +0000

I BOUGHT A COUPLE OF WHAT I HAVE COME TO CALL “PENCIL PROTECTORS” AT THE TOKYO GINZA ITO-YA ART AND OFFICE SUPPLY STORE. MY INTEREST IS THE WOODLESS COLOR PENCIL, CONSISTING COMPLETELY OF PIGMENT, NOW MADE BY SEVERAL COMPANIES, SUCH AS KOH-I-NOR, CRETACOLOR, FOR ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS. THESE HAVE A TENDENCY TO BREAK DURING USE, AND THE ITOYA PLASTIC TUBE WITH FIRM GRIP BY A KNURLED KNOB AT THE TOP IS QUITE USEFUL IN PROTECTING ALL TYPES OF STANDARD-SIZE PENCILS, WITH OR WITHOUT A WOOD CASING. I RECCOMMEND THIS TOOL AS A TOOL-HOLDER, THOUGH NOT PARTICULARLY SUBSTANTIAL, BUT ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WORKS. I AM NOT FINDING IT AVAILABLE IN THESE UNITED STATES, SO FAR. ANY CLUES? AS FOR PENCIL EXTENDERS, EVERY ART SUPPLY STORE HAS A CHEAP AND EFFECTIVE EXAMPLE, WITH A HEXAGONAL WOODEN HANDLE AND A CHROME STEEL CYLINDER WITH A SLIP-RING CLUTCH THAT WORKS VERY WELL. 2 0R 3 DOLLARS. DOES NOT WEAR OUT. DOES NOT LOOK LIKE A BLACK MERCEDES. USE A CHEAP PENCIL SHARPENER WITH IT. AS AN ARTIST, I USUALLY KEEP A FEW AROUND. BUT THIS DOESN’T PROTECT A FULL- LENGTH PENCIL FROM BREAKING. IT IS AN EXCELLENT EXTENDER FOR YOUR HALF OR SHORTER PIECE OF PENCIL. PLEASE LET ME KNOW ABOUT A FULL-LENGTH PENCIL HOLDER-PROTECTOR. I KNOW THE ALL-METAL ONE THAT SOMEONE HERE MENTIONED. AGREED. IT IS ESSENTIALLY USELESS, AND I’VE GIVEN UP ON IT. TRY THE ITOYA, IF YOU CAN FIND IT. THE GREAT KOH-I-NOR LEAD-HOLDER IS 5/16″ AND NO USE FOR CONVENTIONAL PENCILS, THOUGH IT’S CALLED “UNIVERSAL LEAD-HOLDER.” GOOD LUCK!

By: memex

memex — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:32:42 +0000

Both the version in this post and the UFO extender version (http://www.penciltalk.org/2008/05/faber-castell-perfect-pencil-2) accept any regular exagonal and round pencil. dunno for triangular ones…

memex

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 19:18:47 +0000

I’ll be grateful for some insight on the Perfect Pencil:

Are you expected to keep the extender on the pencil as you write? I realize that you would do this for a shorter pencil–but what about for a longer one?

And–will only FC Perfect Pencils fit in the extender? Or can you use other pencils–including hexagonal ones?

Many thanks!

By: Samy

Samy — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 18:39:53 +0000

I agree with Charles Everitt, the Staedtler 900 25, which I bought on ebay is many times better than this cheap pencil extender. Got it from ahini2 on ebay (not connected to him just a very pleased customer). The sharpener diameter is narrow and not comfortable to use and practically useless. When you stick the eraser end into the extender it gets dirty with all the graphite.

As a nuke engineer I was using mechanical pencils for a long time and after reading this blog went to woodcased pencils in the last few months and now I love the Japanese pencils. I do not think the FC 9000, comes even close to the Japanese woodcase pencils.

By: Renard DellaFave

Renard DellaFave — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:14:25 +0000

I occasionally use mine (though I would like to replace the sharpener with the metal one from the higher priced version), but it has a major problem. It dents the pencils. There’s no rubber or padding on the clutch mechanism.
I’m hoping the new, inexpensive, ones from pencilthings.com might be gentler, though they have no sharpener, and do not look sophisticated.

Best way to carry pencils I’ve found is still the roll type case. Something that holds the pencils with a loop so they can be held at any length. Haven’t seen anything that is maybe 2-3 pencils and easily pocketable, though.

By: Charles Everitt

Charles Everitt — Sat, 31 May 2008 23:15:20 +0000

I have a couple of the Itoya pencil-holders/-extenders, and simply cannot recommend them. They are just too light-duty. The barrels are extremely thin aluminum—thin enough that one can deform the barrel with one’s index finger and thumb. Plus, the collet doesn’t secure the pencil sufficiently to keep it in place while sharpening. That is, when sharpening, the pencil rotates in the collet. The Staedtler 900-25 is infinitely superior, and deserves the highest accolades and recommendation.

Thanks again for a splendid, first-rate and extremely informative Web site. Much obliged.