I love pencils without erasers. Just love the simplicity of them. I need more!

@ma-mo

5 ай бұрын

I feel precisely the same way.

Fine and relaxing review of these deli pencils.

@ma-mo

5 ай бұрын

Thank you, my friend.

Great review, MAMO! Love the color of green they used for these pencils. From your first letter I could see the darkness of the core. It was hard to see much difference between the Deli and and Semihex - it was great to see the comparison! Thanks!

@gods5099

5 ай бұрын

Ii

@ma-mo

5 ай бұрын

The color is probably my favorite thing about these; that and the absence of an eraser!

"... 2B grade so a grade. Maybe usually associated with artist pencils..." Have you traveled the world? I know you are for the USA, but just something is common in the USA, it is not standard world wide (like we use metric system and have healt care). In Thailand the most pencils I found was 2B - to make lovely dark mark on paper. - It is a joy, when us older people (more than 40 yo) has to read it and watch anything. When I was younger I like the B, but I more and more prefer 2B in line with my eyesigt gets worse... for writhing, not just for my drawings. .. and I prefer pencils without erasers :) Thank you for the video. I like several that you have made.

Good choice on using the helical Deli for sharpening this one, MAMO. Here we use eucalyptus pencils, and those usually have knots and burrs; on a straight-blade sharpener, those are the usual suspects when blades break. Helical blades almost grind rather than slice, so they have an easier time, though I doubt it's easy on the edge. I can see in the camera, it's slightly but clearly distinct from the Ticonderoga, but against the Generals, if you'd put the two square scratches together without labeling, I'd have sworn they were from the same pencil.

@ma-mo

5 ай бұрын

Eucalyptus? Now that's interesting. Wish I knew about the properties and appearance of types of wood. Thanks, yet again, for your insights.

@DinnerForkTongue

5 ай бұрын

@@ma-mo Providing them is my pleasure, believe me. We use eucalyptus for paper and for pencil barrels. In appearance it's very light wood, looks sort of like white pine, and while it has some give, it's brittle. I've never come across a cedar pencil in my life, so I can say nothing about the smell for comparison, but eucalyptus doesn't smell like much. What it does have is a flavor -- teenagers especially LOVE to chew on the rear end, and some of them purely because they like how it tastes. When sharpened, eucalyptus does not make the shaving flower that cedar creates; rather, it splinters and only makes short shavings. If the wood is old and dry enough, it splinters so much that it creates a powder of wooden needles.