Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite 9B Pure Pencil

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The Derwent Graphic Pencil 9B is a professional-grade pencil that's perfect for drawing, sketching, and other artistic endeavours. One of the best parts about being an eCommerce owner is the opportunity to pack and prepare your new purchase, with care and passion, and ensure it is delivered promptly.

Another observation I made was that despite the softer ‘B’ grades being blacker than almost any of the pencils I’ve reviewed here, their leads were super strong, gave off no graphite dust at all and would hardly smudge even when I tried. The Grafwoods aren’t the most elegant pencils individually, but the ability to identify the grade I wanted so quickly was a revelation and I wish all ranges could have some kind of colour coding. Grafwoods have one brilliant innovation which is that the casings are colour coded, so you can identify the grade of the pencil visually without reading the written grade indicator.The Mars Lumograph brand was registered in 1900 and so they’ve had a long time to perfect it: the pencils always seem perfectly bonded and I haven’t known even the darkest leads to break when sharpening. Collections can be made between 10am and 4pm Monday to Friday (10am to 6pm Thursdays) or by special arrangement.

The 16 different grades of hardness range from a delicate grey hue to a deep graphite black, and offer artists a wide range of possibilities. Conté à Paris is another illustrious pencil company and its founder Nicolas-Jacques Conté made a huge historical contribution to the development of the modern pencil when he patented his graphite and clay kiln-fired pencil in 1795. The colours start from a pure white casing for the 4H grade, and then get progressively more grey towards the silvery HB.The pencils are very popular in the UK where many people rate them for their blending ability, but I personally feel that they don’t match the standard of some of their rivals despite the fact that they often cost more.