"Hoosierpopi" wrote:

Thank you all. I am not looking for a "drafting" pencil as much as a
utilitarian marker for cut lines and an occasional sketch or layout
drawing to help me with a "design" or fitting a peice in place.

What I've come away with (in addition to those BIC Mechanical
Pencils
I will have to look into) is the following list of suggested wooden
pencils Coincidently, I;m complaining about something emblazoned
with
the name "DIXON No. 2 / HB" How's that for ironic?

Conte
Derwent
Dixon Ticonderoga No 2 Pencil
Dixon Ticonderoga Pencils
Faber Castell
Lumograph.
Mars
Papermate Mirado Classic
Staedtler
Staedtler
Ticonderoga
X-Acto 1744 Heavy-Duty Electric Pencil Sharpener

STAEDTLER® Mars® Lumograph® is a specific pencil..

BTW, if you are breaking leads when trying to write, try 2H or even 3H
pencil.

Will definitely stop the problem.

May engrave the paper, but you won't break the lead.

Lew