Faber Castell Pencils in General

The type of Faber Castell pencils I have are the chunky sized ones (do not know what their official name are, but their wide width in comparison to the other ranges is very noticeable) and my review will be focused on these ones mainly. Faber Castell is a major producer of pencils in general, and like the rest of their products, the chunky pencils are wood cased. They come from the cheaper price range (some of Faber Castell's pencils retail at a number of hundreds of pounds). As colouring pencils, the Faber-Castell are easy to use, and the 'lead' is relatively soft I have found, but not so soft that the lead breaks and is used up quickly. Because the pencils ...  Read the complete review

You may think a "pencil is a pencil is a pencil" and there isn't much to say about it, if anything at all, everyone knows what a pencil looks like, how to use it and what it is for. You may even think that it has become obsolete as a writing tool in the age of PCs. Ha! There's quite a lot to learn about pencils in general and especially about the classic green 'Castell 9000' black-lead pencil which has been made for 103 years by the German company FABER-CASTELL, the most important manufacturer of pencils worldwide with an annual output of more than 1.8 billion (!) wood-cased pencils. They obviously live in peaceful harmony with PCs, they're the cheap ...  Read the complete review