Ebony Pencils

Brianhjh · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:08 pm Post subject:

I just got a killer deal for pencils at michael's, I got 12 pencils (of different grade) and two sharpeners for about 6 USD :wub: and these aren't cheap-o pencils either, they are General's.

anywho, they came with two ebony pencils that had different casing than other pencils, but to me, they seem nothing more than pencils of 6B-ish darkness, what is different from ebony and other pencils? :huh:
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fallenangel · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 1:41 pm Post subject:

Ebony pencils are a soft black pencil as opposed to the different levels of grey you'll get with normal graphite drawing pencils. They're actually more comparable to a 9B pencil. If they're good quality they should be a very smooth dark black.
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Shinigami-no-Kaze · Still very bored Joined: 31 Dec 1969 Posts: 370

Ditto to what fallen said. Ebony pencils are a lot like graphite, just not as messy and a bit more shiny.