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At pencil talk, we love red and blue pencils! But sometimes one needs a red pencil or a blue pencil – not both at once. Or, you’ve found that a double ended pencil gets unusable a bit too quickly. Here is a red/blue pair of very impressive pencils. Hailing from the venerable Mitsubishi Pencil Co., we [...] Last month’s look at the Faber-Castell Textliner pencils elicited a response from a reader in the Netherlands, who asked me to compare them with Stabilo’s new GREENlighter products. Fortunately, the request was accompanied by a set of the pencils! The modest packaging is appealing. A cutout reveals three highlighting pencils, and the text indicates the pencils [...] Here is one of the most unusual and specialized pencils ever manufactured. Stonemasonry pencils were mentioned at this site before I had ever seen one. With extremely hard 6H leads, they are meant for writing on stone and rock surfaces. Mr. Slate probably used one. How can one sharpen a carpenter’s pencil? The International Arrivals sharpener didn’t quite seem to do it. Here is another attempt. From Keson, it is a bright yellow plastic block with four blades. The pencil is placed in a slot (blue plastic) and one slides the pencil back and forth, the wood being sliced away. [...] The FILA 795 BE is contained in a box whose artwork has a simple yet powerful portrait. The details are striking – the red factory windows, the carefully rendered plumes of smoke, the uber-smokestack that is a red and blue pencil, and FILA’s name in red and blue. Bravissimo! |
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