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Holloway Graphite Pencil

Single grade, cedar cased — choose at checkout

$4.00

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Standard shipping $8.00, free over $75. Arrives in 3–6 business days. 30-day returns.

The same pencil, singly. Most people wear out two or three grades and leave the rest of a set nearly untouched, and replacing the whole tin to get another 2B is a waste.

Available in every grade the set contains.

The specification

Everything we know about this item, stated plainly. The same record is printed on the card in the box.

Composition
Kiln-fired graphite and clay core in a cedar casing. Available 4H, 3H, 2H, H, F, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B, 8B.
Dimensions
176 mm × 7 mm hexagonal
Weight
5 g
Finish & variation
Matte lacquered casing, grade stamped on two faces. Core centred to within 0.2 mm and checked against the same reference set as the boxed grades.
Made
Pressed and kiln-fired in Nuremberg, Germany, then cased in cedar and finished here. Grades are checked against a reference set rather than matched by eye.

Care

  • Sharpen with a blade or a long-point sharpener rather than a school sharpener.
  • Store flat in a roll or a tin — a dropped pencil breaks the core along its whole length invisibly.

Cautions

  • Not for wet work. Graphite laid into a damp sheet burnishes and will not lift again.
  • Not erasable to white at the soft end. Anything past 4B leaves a grey ghost no eraser fully takes back.
  • A dropped pencil is likely ruined even if it looks fine — the core fractures internally and will shed every time you sharpen it.

Shipping

$8.00 standard, free over $75. 3–6 business days. Full policy

30 DAYS

Returns

Unused and in original packaging. Refunded within 5 business days of reaching us. Full policy

Questions about this product

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