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                                               Pencils & Pencil Accessories

Accessories for Pencils

Cretacolor Monolith Pencil Holder/Lengthener and Metal Cap
Get more use out of each pencil! This marbleized pencil holder and lengthener has an elegant looking white/silver marbled handle for gripping the shortest pencils.

A metal slip tightener holds the pencil in place. Use with 5/16" (8 mm) diameter woodless pencils.

Metal Pencil Cap — Protects fine, 5/16" (8 mm) diameter woodless pencils. Prevents unwanted markings and breakage, and extends pencil life.

  
Charcoal Pencils

Cretacolor's "Black Box" Charcoal Drawing Set is an outstanding value, offering 20 different charcoal related drawing materials, all made in Austria:

Derwent Charcoal Pencils Derwent Charcoal Pencils. Excellent for detail work, these cedar barreled pencils contain the highest quality flexible charcoal with no imperfections leading to scratching.

Marking Pencils and China Markers   These specialized pencils and markers go by many names — as wax pencils, grease pencils, or china markers.

They provide solutions when you have to write or draw on a smooth surface, surfaces to which many other writing tools don't adhere, such as glass, metal, polished stone, ceramics, plastic, and mylar.

For more such solutions, some of them permanent and indelible, see our selection of
Barking Pens

Mechanical Pencils and Accessories    Mechanical pencils require leads in a variety of sizes, and each pencil can only use the size for which it was designed. we carrie both pencils and lead refills for sizes 0.3 mm, 0.5 mm, 0.7 mm, and 0.9 mm, as well as for 2 mm lead holders (drafting pencils).

The 0.5 mm lead size is the one most commonly used for writing. Most fine writing instruments, mechanical pencils that are designed for a general audience rather than for graphic artists, require this size of lead.

It is common for graphic artists to own several mechanical pencils, each with a different color of barrel, to create both fine and coarse lines. Each pencil is loaded with a different thickness and hardness of lead. Several colors of lead are also available.

A drafting pencil or "lead holder" is a mechanical pencil that uses the much larger 2 mm leads. The point can be sharpened as necessary with a lead pointer.

Although pencil leads once contained lead, an element that is toxic when ingested, all modern pencils and pencil leads are made with graphite, a naturally occuring form of carbon that is not toxic or harmful. Powdered graphite is fired with a fine clay binder to create leads of varying width and hardness.