#2 pencils
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My Old Tools
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Old fashioned drafting lead holder. They hold 2 mm or 3 mm leads, not the wimpy .5 or .9 of the Pentels. You can get any color and hardness of lead you want, from HB to 6H. The harder leads will hold a sharp point for marking fine joinery as well as a marking knife can, and you can see it. Blue lead is good on dark woods like walnut. I keep several around with different leads.
http://www.artsupplywarehouse.com/finelineDisplay.php?id=273000
I found an old drafting pencil sharpener (lead pointer) still in the box at a school auction to use with them.
http://leadholder.com/point-trupoint.html
http://www.artsupplywarehouse.com/finelineDisplay.php?id=273000
I found an old drafting pencil sharpener (lead pointer) still in the box at a school auction to use with them.
http://leadholder.com/point-trupoint.html
jvitez
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You really do have a German answer for everything, don't you?
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Deutchland uber alles.
I have these made in UK pencils from Lee Valley, excellent quality:
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=32538&cat=1,42936,43509
Another Lee Valley option, made in Switzerland mechanical pencil:
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/page.aspx?p=45504&cat=1,42936,43509
Not for $45!
I use carpenter pencils for everything. I keep them on my table saw fence with the sharpener. I like them way better than mechanical or regular style pencils. They also work to pin the blade cover up on circular saws
abk241
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Eberhard Faber has always been a favorite of mine...made in the good old USA.
Koh-I-Noor is also pretty good...nice thick leads available in colors.
Koh-I-Noor is also pretty good...nice thick leads available in colors.
Major Ramifications
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^This.^
I'm only 34, but we were obsessed with this game in Elementary School. We tried every mfg available back then figuring that one of them had to give you an advantage. We even wrote a rule book since we were always coming up with new and ridiculous ways to cheat. After all, when you have little boys playing for lunch money or pudding, sh!t gets seriousFIRST thing that came to my mind with a #2 pencil lol! You want quality pencils when playing Pencil Break or Pencil War too
I went through dozens and dozens of pencils playing with my friends back in those school days lol. Great memories having fun. Winning was of course AWESOME!!!
. I remember frequent arguments over which company made the best pencils for Pencil War. I guess it makes sense, now that we're all older and wiser, we argue about tool quality and mfg's
.You are also very right, winning was AWESOME!
Ilikeike
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I played that game a lot. I wish I still had all my NFL pencils. I'm 46.
I have these general pencil Co.http://www.amazon.com/General-Pencil-Company-ANG333-2-12-pack/dp/B00314DBPI/ref=sr_1_1?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1421968901&sr=1-1in my garage,they're better than the normal staples pencils,and Made in the USA,supposedly.
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