stumbled on this, and I immediately thought of Ticonderoga as it was my favourite when i was in still in college. That being said, I havent used a pencil in a very long time. I have a few pens I like now a days but I really did prefer using a pencil for taking all my notes.

The Palomino Blackwing could be a 2B, which would explain their "half the pressure, twice the speed." The writing does seem slightly darker. 2B lead requires less pressure to leave the same amount of lead as HB, since 2B is softer.

No offense, but the pencils I got from India would blow these out of the water any day! I tried a couple, Doms, Apsara, Faber Castell, Nataraj, Classmate, but my fav would have to be the Apsara, as I think it had the best lead quality & is iconic. However, all of them (when converted to USD) are SUPER cheap. We're talking 10 or 12 + complimentary sharpener + eraser on the Doms for 50 INR! (Like 65 cents!) The wood is beautiful & the pencil just looks great! Nice blue & white striping & silver printing No eraser tho, but that's what the better complimentary rubber is for! And oh my gosh, the lead is so dark & smooth in all of them. Asian stationery hits different. That said, it costs a ton to get them in the US, so I like picking up stationery in India when my family visits each summer

Mike! Well done man! Just saw this while researching for my cutting boards and saw you! Lots of Ticonderoga around here but I will be picking up a Blackwing shorlty.

No offense, but all these pencils look weak. Where are those thick, black graphite pencils that I used, as a kid in the 1980s, that were so dark and gave off so much lead that they smudged? The graphite was like charcoal. They were painted black, with gold lettering, and were really solid. I need some of those.

I've used the faber castel as a kid. Loved it. When I moved to the US ironically everything sold here seems to be the cheap stuff 10 for $1. I was taken aback coming from a "poorer" country

Its a shame about the Dixon Ticonderoga, as well as the Mirado. Both companies have fallen off TERRIBLY in their quality. They're no longer the best pencils... usually. Depends on the box you buy honestly. But they're NOT the quality they used to be

The Dixon Ticonderoga and The Paper mate Everstrong are recommended for standardized testing with Scantrons

Team Dixon Ticonderoga!

I really like Musgrave pencils, made in Tennessee USA!

I like to write with the Uni Star Mitsubishi Master Writer model!! I also like Blackwings (602/Pearl) and from the mechanical pencils, I love the Pentel Graphgear 500 0.5mm and the Pentel Kerry!!! For drawing/sketching, my picks are: Graphgear 500. Faber Castell 9000/Aquarelle and Pitt Matt, Lead holders like TK 9400/TK4600, Staedtler 780,Kohinoor 5340/5347 and my top lead holder, a German cousin of the Kohinoor 5616 (best pencil for graphite sketching along with the more versatilem,Kohinoor 5340, are my top 2 sketching pencils ever!!

I use the Master Art Computer Pencils and the Steadler 13212 I can't decided which one is the best

The Staedtler Norica is also a great value option. The graphite formula is better than the regular blackwing.

I love, love, love stationery. I switch between pencils, gel pens, and my favorite - fountain pens. I must say that I hate to see the eraser on a pencil used. It must remain perfect. Use a block eraser or wedge eraser instead! As for sharpeners, I have a Bostich one from BJ's on my desk that sharpens quickly and perfectly. For my everyday carry, I use a blue round Staedtler from Staples.

You would be just as happy with a Moon Products pencil or the USA Gold or Titanium or even a Musgrave or General. Lots of other choices.

i like usa titanium

MY main issue with blackwing is that you can't pick the paint sperate from the graphite, or that they put glossy on them at all. Glossy paint on a pencil is just slippery and uncomfortable for me.

My favorite type of pencils are the Target brand No. 2 Pencils. They are the cheapest pencils at target, sharpen very easily, write amazingly, and have a great eraser.

Ticonderoga here. But, I find the Staedtler Norica blue 13246 pencil pretty good too. Mirado Black Warriors aren't bad either.

I have worked as a joiner for fifty years I always had a few pencils in my toolbox and van even sometimes behind my ear Alec from Scotland

Ticonderoga's are made in various places. Mexico, China, who knows where else... The Mexico ones I got are incense cedar and definitely have a good smell.

I’m looking for a cedar cologne and thought of this

Maybe I need to up my game a little bit... I only started writing things down (planners and journals) in the last couple of weeks. I dumped the pens I was using because they bleed through the cheap paper of what i've got right now (The planner I use is a Dollar Tree weekly planner) in favor of a 24 pack of (again) Dollar Tree "Jot" pencils I've had since friggin' forever. I mean... they do perfectly fine for what I need them to do. Except for the eraser. The damned eraser is almost GONE and the pencil isn't even a third of the way down as far as sharpening... and I write until there is just a nub of graphite. lol And no, I don't erase all that often. I'm gonna have to get eraser toppers for these things. hah

Odd. I find the eraser on the Dixon to be superior to the less than stellar Palominos. I have to use a standalone eraser when I use the Blackwings.

These picks are simply not very good. Mitsubishi is the best pencil company for school writing pencils and it’s not close. The 9852, 9850, 9000, and 8900 all blow away any of these. Also you should not be using pencil erasers unless you have to. Buy Pentel eraser caps instead. The Blackwings and Golden Bear ferrules leave a lot to be desired because they are loosely attached. The underlying quality of the wood is also suspect when you sharpen the pencils. With the Mitsubishi 9852 and 9850 the ribbons are continuous and dense during sharpening reflecting the quality of the underlying wood. Then there is price to performance, Mitsubishi pencils strike a nice balance at about 75 cents a pencil.

Finding the right pencil type, or lead grade, is the easy part. Finding the best *paper* on which to write *with a pencil and not with a pen* is not discussed anywhere in the world. And I said write -- not sketch, not draw, not color. 2B pencil writing on a thin but textured paper -- you experience that once and you will search for a place to get that paper for the rest of your life, and you will never use HB again.

It’s apparent to me the reviewer doesn’t actually ever write with pencils. He didn’t sharpen with a long point sharpener for goodness sake. The writing was done sloppy with little care. If I were to bet, he writes mostly on his computer and prefers pens.

Yo whoever sharpened these pencils in the b roll are making me die with how uneven it is

Tell me that pencil sharpener name

Musgrave

sharpener needs a hard upgrade.

Unionize

For me: Bruynzeel. Made in The Netherlands, so for me locally made. Fun fact: The Nasa - at the time- spent millions on developing a pen which could write in space. The Russians just took a pencil!

This video could have been 2 seconds long. Ticonderoga. End of.

2:41 hahahahaha.

Pada bai tu jada english

What do you use to write communist propaganda?

1st world problems

Wow, if this is the sort of thing they really care about, gen-Z is doomed.