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Fourth Anniversary

This week marks this blog’s fourth anniversary!
The website started in 2005 as a blog with irregular looks at stationery and pencils. The first post was about Rhodia and their enigmatic orange writing pads. The post was viewed many times, and quoted elsewhere, yet never received a comment.
The second post was about the Blackfeet Indian Pencil. [...]

October 26th, 2009 | Category: pencils | 23 comments

3.15mm leadholders and mechanical pencils

Interested in a great graphite writing and drawing experience that might use a less well known writing implement? How about the opportunity to use colour leads, or even a ballpoint pen with the same pencil? Let’s take a look at 3.15mm leadholders!
These pencils have a lead diameter that is about 50% thicker than the lead [...]

October 17th, 2009 | Tags: , , | Category: Caran d'Ache, Faber-Castell, leadholders | 6 comments

Double ended colour pencils

While red and blue pencils are a sublime and beautiful example of the pencil maker’s art, other colour leads can be combined though the same process for an amazing result.

Colleen is a company we’ve mentioned many times. With leadership from a former manager of Japan’s now defunct Colleen Pencil Co., the revived company in [...]

October 10th, 2009 | Category: Colleen, Sanford, pencils | 10 comments