Graphite Fine Art
The Pentel Graph 1000 is a mechanical pencil available in several lead sizes: 0.3mm, 0.4mm, 0.5mm, 0.7mm and 0.9mm. This is the 0.5mm version. It costs about £13 in the UK and $14 in the USA. The look and feel is very different to the pencils I usually like. The body is made from plastic…
The Faber-Castell Grip Sparkle is a wooden pencil that’s available with HB lead for £1.50 a piece in the UK. I’m not certain of the wood it’s made from but the Grip 2001 is made from Jelutong so it’s probably safe to assume this is the same. Let’s face it. If you buy this pencil…
The Twist is a modern bullet pencil made by Metal Shop. It’s available direct from their website and costs $37.50. I picked this one up a little less during their Kickstarter campaign. All pencils are delivered with two erasers and three Blackwing 602 pencil stubs. The version I’m reviewing here has a raw aluminium barrel…
The Tombow Mono 100 is not a cheap pencil. They cost about $2.35 in the USA and around £1.85 in the UK. There is a perfectly reasonable argument that no pencil could be worth this much. People who make this argument are wrong. I sort-of-reviewed the Tombow Mono 100 back in October 2013 but this…
The Field Notes No. 2 pencil is a cedar wood pencil with a groovy green eraser. They cost around £4.50 for six in the UK. This is a round pencil with a natural finish. It smells absolutely fantastic. I accept that some people may think it’s a little weird to enjoy the smell of a…