Comments on: Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil – 4

By: Matthias Meckel

Matthias Meckel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:01:03 +0000

… and of course also at http://www.penciltalk.org/2008/06/faber-castell-perfect-pencil-5

By: Matthias Meckel

Matthias Meckel — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 07:59:17 +0000

Hello Andymeg,

The old version did not have a sharpener. You can find some photos and information (in German) about the differences at http://www.penexchange.de/forum_neu/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=1683

By: Andymeg

Andymeg — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:14:45 +0000

Hello, I just purchased a Graf von Faber Castell perfect pencil and cannot seem to find the sharpener in the extender. Is it possible there is no sharpener? That is one of the reasons I purchased the pencil. Thanks!

By: penciladmin

penciladmin — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:29:10 +0000

The No. III long pencil? Why would you want to?

By: jackieblue

jackieblue — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 03:41:24 +0000

Can you add erasers to the long pencils?

By: craniopath

craniopath — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 13:12:50 +0000

In Turkey it is possible to buy a 5pencil spare pack for 25€, but still very expensive. All other graf pens/pencils are expensive to buy but cheap (or as expensive as any other alternative) to use except for the perfect pencil which is a shame because they are really nice :(

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By: Franco

Franco — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:32:59 +0000

Looking for pencils enough wide to fit in my platinum FCPP, I have finally founded one. It s the Caran d’Ache Grafwood. I ve not yet used it, but it s really nice. Light, nice colour, a lot of gradations.
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http://www.penciltalk.org/2008/04/caran-dache-grafwood-775-pencil

http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/shop-online/caran-dache-grafwood-pencils.htm

By: Franco

Franco — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:11:17 +0000

Hi Alec
Thank you very much for the explanation. Meantime I had the opportunity to go in a shop and notice the differences between the platinum model and the silvers model. Definitely the platinum one is the model more “stable” as exterior.

About pencils: really thanks for the good advice. I saw the “long model” that you mention and , imagine, I even didn ‘t ask the price because I thought they were even more expensive of the short models. I will go soon to buy them if they are cheap as you said ( I hope in Rome they are doing the same price policy….)

About the price: you are again right. I had to experience that GvFC pencils are more comfotable than the thin one. May be not enough to justify such big price but in any case enough to use them instead the normal pencils. Moreover I agree that on our desk we can use chepaer rubber :-)

Thanks a lot
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By: Alec Gold

Alec Gold — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:46:15 +0000

Hi Franco,

There is a specific Graf von Faber-Castell pencil that is thick enough to work with these holders. Note the difference from Faber-Castell (like the 9000) and the Graf von Faber-Castell.
There are two types of GvFC, one is pencil no. V, short with the place for an eraser and threads for the cap, the other is the “long pencil”, no eraser, no cap, but it is a bit longer and much cheaper.

On the road i write with the No.V, when at my desk, I write with the long GvFC (or with a mitshu-bishi Hi-Uni for that matter) as they are much cheaper and an eraser or sharpener is easily found on my desk :D

I think the tickness of GvFC is not only there to force you to buy GvFC, it also is much more comfortable in my hands when write long texts. But it does help you to buy these € 35 for 5 pieces of wood…… Now that is EXPENSIVE for a pencil IMHO

If it is sterling, it has a 925 mark at the back.
if it is silver plated, it will show tarnish/blackening.
If it is platinium plated it will stay perfect silver colored over time.

There are differences in shape/design for each material, but that is harder to describe. As there are no marks sterling silver wouldn’t be an option, if around theclip the material darkens it is plated, if it is perfect white/silver it should be platinum!.

By: Franco

Franco — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 22:23:36 +0000

Hi everybody, I live in Rome, Italy
I would need some help/advise.
I got as a gift a F-C Perfect Pencil. The model is the one shown on the pictures above. the question is : is it possible to understand which is the version I own ? (i.e. silver plated, platinum plated, etc). I checked with a widener lens but there is nothing on the body of the extender helping me.

A remark about the pencils that works with this extender. I have also the cheap platinum F-C extender and definitely the pencils for that extender are not working with this one. They are too thin. I guess this is a policy of Faber Castell to force owner of this extender to but only expensive pencils. I m going to look for if there are other pencils in the market with the right diameter. Moreover this extender looks great.