[Daffynition]

33 years of experience with pencils...under the harshest conditions. Parents and schools are tempted to buy the cheaper China pencils. Pencils with inferior graphite; wood spinsters when sharpened. Awful erasers.

Best buy for quality and durability, Dixon Ticonderoga; sadly no longer made here; a satisfactory substitute: General Pencil.

[Clutch Martin]

when auntie died we went to her estate and we’re arranging things for sale and to possess that she had no children and I found a box of Eberhardt Faber pencils made in the USA I know covet those pencils and use them very sparingly they are that good.

A friend in high school years ago was an excellent portrait artist who used bowling pencils found in bowling alleys back in the day to be the best pencils for him in thickness and the darkness of the graphite.

I wonder what he went to after bowling centers became computerized?