Faber-Castell Pitt Graphite 9B Pure Pencil

Really lovely, creamy, graphite. I always find Faber Castell products to be great quality and this graphite stick hasn't disappointed. The graphite is a true 9B: very very soft with an excellent depth of colour. It's an absolute joy to draw with. You can sharpen the graphite in any standard sized sharpener, or with a penknife, if you want a sharper point. The graphite has a plasticised coating on the surface, so there is no transference to the skin while you're drawing.The item arrived in a small plastic tube with "bungs" at either end, which I was very impressed with, especially as this graphite is so very soft- I've been keeping it in its case for safety, but also because this offers a good way of identifying it in my sketching box! I feel that any risk of the graphite shattering in the post has been effectively avoided with this little plastic tube.

These pencils are amazing lovely and heavy to hold a real joy to use the pressure so easy to control so the various depth of shading can be easily achieved. I definitely recommend these and are so glad to have found them. Thank you

Ideal pencils for darker work. Great for blending.

These are among my favourite pencils, it’s great to go woodless whenever possible and the quality is superb.

I am pleased with the pencil. Keeping me busy sketching during lockdown. It does seems a little bit on the expensive side for what it is though. It isn’t really dark black which is what I wanted but that might be my fault as not sure what to order to achieve a super black effect. The images are my first attempts at using the pencil.I have to add that my pencil originally arrived snapped in two, the packaging was in tact though. However, amazon replaced the product within 48 hours and the process for a replacement was Smooth

Good instant depth of colour

Pitt make excellent solid graphite pencilsI buy them as essential equipment for keeping the spiral cutter on my Jakar electric pencil sharpener running sweet. Coloured pencils can be taxing on the sharpener but if you feed it very soft graphite graphite pencils on a regular basis it purrs. Pitt Pencils are one of the two brands of graphite pencil I buy for this purpose.

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