Here is a watermelon of a pencil to cool off with during the hot summer months :) Actually, the color scheme should work for Christmas too, but the red is a bit too vermilion and the aqua lines too suggestive of a dip in the pool. Christmas is best celebrated with the pine-green-and-gold Faber-Castell 9000.
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Beautiful! “Watermelon” suggests itself ;-)
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Yes, and moreover, a seedless one! :)
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Very nice – is the “2 1/2” a common designation for Stabilo HBs?
Looking at my pencil pot, the most common equivalence seems to be “2” for the HB grade…
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I have seen it on Schwan/Stabilo pencils very often.
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The 2 1/2 designation should qualify as an F in the American sense, but somehow Stabilo seems to think different, as Gunther says. It’s interesting, though, that older Othellos come in #1’s and #2’s…
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Slightly off-topic, but I just used the Blackfeet Indian pencil earlier, which is 2 2/4. I always wondered wha they don’t just write 2 1/2…
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I think I saw 2 5/10 too, can’t remember where… But I appreciate the fine-tuned sensibilities that insist on 2 3/8 ;)
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As far as I know this had something to do with copyrights (if I remember correctly there is something about this in Petroski’s book). – What about 1 6/4 ? ;-)
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Gunther, I went back to my copy of “The Pencil” but couldn’t find anything :( Will append here if anything surfaces!
And 1 6/4 would be good exercise for the brain. BTW I really like the silver printing :)
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A seedless watermelon, I like that!
The 2 1/2 caught my eye, too. As with your other posts, I’m learning new things about pencils. :)
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Thank you, Jinnie! I’m getting to know lots of new stuff thanks to you, too. Can you believe I’ve never owned a single Field Note up till now? Gotta try one soon. BTW I’m thinking of writing up something in response to your Rollbahn post, check back in a couple of days ;)
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