"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

"Dave in Houston" wrote in
:

I been real happy with this Lee Valley offering:

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...,42936,43509&a
p=1 A little on the pricey side. Sharpener is in the little blue cap.
Difficult to break the leads, too.


I'll second that. It's all they say and then some. I've had one for two
years and am still on the first lead. I only use it in my home shop,
though.

At work, laying out timbers for post and beam joinery, and anything else
I'm called on to do, these will go for hours without re-sharpening, in the
hardest lead version:

https://www.dixonusa.com/index.cfm/f.../prdIndex=185?

Scott

On Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:03:19 -0500, -MIKE-
wrote:

Steve Turner wrote:
Speaking of Lee Valley, in the nearby discussion about pencil sharpeners
I recalled (after talking last night to Mike about vintage Bostons) that
Lee Valley offers this sharpener:

http://www.leevalley.com/wood/page.a...81&cat=1,42936

Anybody ever used it, and if so, do you know how it compares to a
vintage Boston?


Does it matter? It's Lee Valley, which means either...

a) it's the best fricken pencil sharpener on the planet
or
2) if it's not, they'll bend over backwards to help you return it and send
you a case of pre-sharpened never-ending-super-H-leaded pencils that
convert marking from Imperial to metric, as you draw.


I have two Boston crank-style sharpeners, one is over 45 years old.
The only "complaint" is I have is to empty the thing often. When the
Boston sharpeners are not closeby, I use my pocket knife.

On Sep 7, 6:05*pm, 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

Thank you all

If I find a preferred pencil among those suggested, I'll post again.

My uncle (a HS shop/drafting teacher) gave me 2 of the Staedtler Mars
Technico lead holders once Christmas a long time ago. I only more
recently picked up woodworking as a hobby, and uncovered those lead
holders during a move at about the same time.

I'll spend 10 minutes looking for one of those 2 lead holders before I
consider using a regular pencil. The Staedtlers I have have a lead
sharpener built into the cap, the leads last forever, and they're
pretty easy to find in pretty much any hardness. In my opinion they
really are an excellent "utilitarian" marking tool, as they never get
shorter when you sharpen the lead, you don't have to go anywhere to
sharpen a dull point, and they don't break very easily.

Though they're not very good for chewing. :-)

http://www.leadholder.com/lh-draft-s...80_series.html

-Nathan