Depot's are not bad. I like Menards as a store, but drop a pencil from them and all the lead breaks. Irwin makes a nice pencil. The best I got from another GC who had them printed up locally. Don't know who made them, but I couldn't keep them in the bag for all the thieves, I mean carpenters, on site.
I get the Bic pens at costco 9 dozen for 7$ you do the math. Great for finish, thin clear line and the tip never breaks:laughing: and when they run out of ink I toss em a few pennies each:thumbup: I keep 4or 5 things to wright with in my bags most of the time:whistling
I have never thought about it. I get all mine for free! Banks, lumber yards, vendors..... I don't think I've bought a pencil in almost 20 years! Well, not quite true. I do buy mechanical pencils now and then which I use on the "finer" projects, such as cabinets and built-ins. Mostly I use a mechanical drafting pencil with a lead that can be sharpened.
Rexel Blackedge Hard or Staedtler Hard, anything else aggravates me way too much with broken leads and crappy wood. I tried one of those chatahootche builders pencils but I prefer a real pencil.
Lee Valley pencils are made in the traditional way with traditional materials – incense-cedar bodies with refined graphite leads.
Not only are these easy to write with, but the light, stiff cedar body keeps the lead in one piece. Have you noticed how often you find broken lead in most pencils? You won't in these. Even more important, the leads in ours are silky smooth and black, not some form of gritty gray.
Since you may have forgotten the luxury of different lead hardnesses for different uses (a 2B writes like a Belgian chocolate tastes), we offer a six-pencil sample pack with one each of 4B, 2B, B, HB, H, and 2H. Otherwise, we sell them in boxes of twelve.
For shop use, a regular pencil is preferred to a carpenter's pencil, and it needs a sharp point for maximum accuracy.
This clip-on pencil sharpener, which handles regular and fat pencils, goes where you go and can be used one-handed.
Suggested by a customer, it was too practical to resist. We had to order the two components from opposite sides of the world and decided to make the clips available separately so that you could portabilize (you're right, it isn't a word!) other tools as well.
Kasper Faber started producing pencils in Stein, Germany. In 1839, Baron Lothar von Faber created the world’s first branded writing instrument. In 2008, the Faber-Castell collection produced the world’s most expensive pencil.
A limited edition of the Graf von Faber-Castell Perfect Pencil, the most expensive pencil is made of 240-year-old olive wood and has an end-piece and extender with built-in eraser and sharpener, all made of 18-carat white gold. The pen’s cap even features three diamonds beneath the Faber-Castell coat-of-arms.
Only ninety-nine limited edition Perfect Pencils were created. At a retail price of €9,000 (about $12,800), it truly is the world’s most expensive pencil. :thumbsup:
If you're looking for a pen, this can't be beat Space Pen They also have a lifetime warranty. If it ever breaks, send it back and they'll send you a new one.
The Dixon Ticonderoga Tri-Write is currently my favorite. I stay away from the Staples branded Chinese junk pencils. They are complete garbage and a waste of raw materials.
Same pencil, just in the large kid size. Thicker lead and wood case...you can sharpen with a razor knife and they fit in a standard schoolhouse rotary sharpener for finish work. I even mounted a sharpener on the side of my table saw.....
1 box of 36 lasts me a year doing general carpentry... They're the best IMPO....
The Dixon Ticonderoga Tri-Write is currently my favorite. I stay away from the Staples branded Chinese junk pencils. They are complete garbage and a waste of raw materials.
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