The Lead Holder

Posted by 141drew Nov 23, 2011 at 1:35 PM and filed under Reviews & Features

I’ve never used anything else in my shop… I’m sure there is something better, but I am stuck in my ways. The great thing about a lead holder is that it can write on anything and what you write is legible and removable. My supply of both holders and lead has ran clean dry, so I got online and looked for replacements. Found em.

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LawnDart79

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Nov 23, 2011

I like the concept

LAROKE

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Nov 23, 2011

This is what we draftsmen (drafter is the PC term) used in the pre-CADD days in the architecture firms I've worked for

http://leadholder.com/

Harvey Melvin Richards

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Nov 23, 2011

When I was in college 30 years ago I discovered that Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencils also worked well as roach clips.

LAROKE

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Nov 23, 2011

Harvey Melvin Richards said:
When I was in college 30 years ago I discovered that Koh-I-Noor mechanical pencils also worked well as roach clips.

Ha! Yup.

Stuart in MN

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Nov 23, 2011

I still have a couple lead holders left over from drafting class almost 40 years ago I still use on occasion, along with my K+E drafting set and french curves.

Still use my old electric eraser, too - some of the young engineers around here have been pretty impressed by it.

curtrnev

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Nov 23, 2011

Speaking of roach clips and electric erasers. A couple of my friends and I "erased" a lot of work one day in class , then proceeded to roll a Zig Zag with the special weed inside . That was some funny chit when the class pot head lit up his lunch time toke.

johno

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Nov 23, 2011

Used mechanical pencils before, but the lead in these looks a lot bigger.
Have never seen them before.

ddrewyor

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Nov 23, 2011

Actually the usage of the word "lead" is a misnomer. The content is compressed, powder graphite. No lead to be found. Cool holders though.

Dave

kruegdr

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Nov 24, 2011

I'm a huge fan of the Staedtler leadholders. I tend to bear down pretty hard, and the large diameter leads are great. Used in the shop, on the road, and in the right seat of the rally car....

Staedtler Website

Jim Johnstone

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Nov 24, 2011

kruegdr said:
I'm a huge fan of the Staedtler leadholders. I tend to bear down pretty hard, and the large diameter leads are great. Used in the shop, on the road, and in the right seat of the rally car....

Staedtler Website

Best ones out there as far as I'm concerned. Love the Staedtlers.

johno

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Nov 24, 2011

kruegdr said:
I'm a huge fan of the Staedtler leadholders. I tend to bear down pretty hard, and the large diameter leads are great. Used in the shop, on the road, and in the right seat of the rally car....

Staedtler Website

These look smaller dia. than the OP items.
Are they?

brett09

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Nov 24, 2011

johno said:
These look smaller dia. than the OP items.
Are they?

The website shows them as being 2 mm, and the OPs is 5.5 mm. Quite a bit smaller, but I've used them and they are quite hard to break. I would imagine 5.5 mm would be pretty impossible to break unless you were trying.

Bull

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Nov 24, 2011

Another thing that I didn't know existed, that I now feel I must have.

Flathead Red

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Nov 25, 2011

I'm with Bull on this one. Must have one or six of those.

FR

dittle fart around

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Nov 25, 2011

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Here's a holder made of poured concrete for that extra heft.

ZRX61

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Nov 25, 2011

I have a 2x4x4in block of graphite in the garage, it sometimes gets used as a pencil....

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fortyfour

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Nov 27, 2011

I don't wear a pocket protector but I'm a "horses for courses" kind of guy:

Staedtler and a fresh HB lead with built in sharpener at the end for sketching in the studio.
Sharpie ultra fine point for note takin'.
Carpenter Pencil's for when I get down with grain. Nothing beats hand sharpening a carpenter's pencil.
Starrett No. 67A Scriber when we need precision layout.
Sharpie Fine Points when I need thick lines.

I may need one upon reviewing this list though...

Mario

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Nov 29, 2011

kruegdr said:
and in the right seat of the rally car....

Same here! And I can use them even if the car is upside down! :bounce:

Tman

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Nov 29, 2011

Bull said:
Another thing that I didn't know existed, that I now feel I must have.

What he said, thanks for the thread!

machine_punk

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Nov 29, 2011

While i am less picky about which 'lead holder' I use nowadays (although I do prefer a 0,9 lead in a mechanical pencil), I usually hand draft most of my projects, before starting to cut metal...
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bczygan

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Nov 29, 2011

kruegdr said:
I'm a huge fan of the Staedtler leadholders. I tend to bear down pretty hard, and the large diameter leads are great. Used in the shop, on the road, and in the right seat of the rally car....

Staedtler Website

Used these for years as a designer. Still have a few floating around here somewhere.
But would really like one like the OP posted! Fat and Juicy! A big block of HB or maybe 2B or even 6B would also be great!

http://www.pencils.com/hb-graphite-grading-scale

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JASTECH

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Nov 29, 2011

I sure like the Staedtler, use to have one years ago. I have a bunch of them carpenters penciles, bought the tubelar setup that came with sharpener from Home Cheapo. I have problems holding them nowadays sometimes, have holders for them too.

TAftw

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Nov 29, 2011

Bull said:
Another thing that I didn't know existed, that I now feel I must have.

I think that almost every day when log on here. That's getting sig'ed.

RKA

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Nov 30, 2011

brett09 said:
The website shows them as being 2 mm, and the OPs is 5.5 mm. Quite a bit smaller, but I've used them and they are quite hard to break. I would imagine 5.5 mm would be pretty impossible to break unless you were trying.

I had difficulty finding the 2.0mm in the US, but found someone in asia selling them on ebay. I got a softer (less brittle) lead for it, and it's great for shop use!! They also make a little sharpener that works well for the 2.0mm leads.

Hamster

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Dec 18, 2011

RKA said:
I had difficulty finding the 2.0mm in the US, but found someone in asia selling them on ebay. I got a softer (less brittle) lead for it, and it's great for shop use!! They also make a little sharpener that works well for the 2.0mm leads.

Office deopt and Michaels both carry them.

yasha32

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Dec 18, 2011

I had to get one for an engineering class i took, I love the thing to death. I got mine from office depot though

William Payne

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Dec 18, 2011

Wow and I just use a pencil, I need to buy my boss one of those Staedtler ones as he is allways breaking the lead in his thin pen pencils.

Danglerb

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Dec 18, 2011

I have some grease pencils and china markers (white) as well as paint pens to mark parts with.

eriksalo

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Dec 30, 2011

LAROKE said:
This is what we draftsmen (drafter is the PC term) used in the pre-CADD days in the architecture firms I've worked for

http://leadholder.com/

Me too! My first job was as a draftsman. We used these for the early version and then Ink on Vellum for the final. Don't screw up!

Sweet Old Bill

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Jan 1, 2012

Ryan,

Thanks for "pointing" us towards this product. It works so well that my Beautiful Bride insisted that I buy her one for her own use, she does framing - of pictures & so forth.