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Minion
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 Posted: 02/20/04 - 18:41 Post subject: Really stupid question...
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Does anyone know if colored mechanical pencil lead exists? If so where to buy it cause I can't find any anywhere.
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Pags
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 18:44 Post subject:
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I've never heard of it.
But, that doesn't really mean anything...
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Jakanden
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 18:49 Post subject:
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Cant say I have heard of one either. I honestly don't think they exist but who knows heh.
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Sasa
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 19:00 Post subject:
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I do not think it exists.
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Akronn
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 19:00 Post subject:
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Absolutely it exists. My father used to have a metal chest full of such things in our basement from when he was a draftsman.
It was old junk from the '70s, but I've got to believe colored lead for mechanical pencils is still available. (try online?)
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Zapper
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Minion
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 19:13 Post subject:
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I tried google and saw that already.
It has to be 0.7 mm or smaller, anything bigger I may as well be drawing with a crayon. (such as in that pencil..)
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Minion
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 19:20 Post subject:
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Nevermind, apparently pentel sells blue and red pencil lead in 0.5 and 0.7, unfortunately their entire site is in flash and you can't order from them so now all I have to do is find someplace who actually has it.
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principessa
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 19:56 Post subject:
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I have green metallic lead for mine, came with a Pentel mechanical pencil...am almost positive I got it at Office Depot...
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Minion
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 19:57 Post subject:
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| principessa wrote: | | I have green metallic lead for mine, came with a Pentel mechanical pencil...am almost positive I got it at Office Depot... |
what the hell is metallic lead and is it eraseable
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GruntingCod
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 20:01 Post subject:
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They sell it at staples and officemax. It sux d**k though, it is hardly eraseable, and it is more of a plastic constistancy than lead.
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principessa
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 20:01 Post subject:
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It's colored lead <shrug> and yea, it erases ok...the particular pencil I have is not on their site, but there are others that come in colors and they say they are refillable
Office Depot
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WhiteWidow
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 22:21 Post subject:
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Go to your local art store and ask them. I am sure it exists, I have seen it, but not the kind you are probably looking for. I would imagine it would be difficult to find high quality erasable lead.
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wellspoken
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 22:43 Post subject:
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| WhiteWidow wrote: | | Go to your local art store and ask them. I am sure it exists, I have seen it, but not the kind you are probably looking for. I would imagine it would be difficult to find high quality erasable lead. |
If you read the above posts you would see that they have already determined that it does exist. 
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Minion
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Posted: 02/20/04 - 22:46 Post subject:
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| WhiteWidow wrote: | | Go to your local art store and ask them. I am sure it exists, I have seen it, but not the kind you are probably looking for. I would imagine it would be difficult to find high quality erasable lead. |
Sanford makes penciles called Col-Erase pencils (which is basically what I use now) -- They're easily eraseable color pencils, not the typical plastic/nearly crayon type. The only problem is that sanford doesn't make mechanical pencil lead like that, only sharpen shit. Someone MUST make something similar in mechanical lead format.
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WhiteWidow
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Posted: 02/21/04 - 00:30 Post subject:
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| wellspoken wrote: | | WhiteWidow wrote: | | Go to your local art store and ask them. I am sure it exists, I have seen it, but not the kind you are probably looking for. I would imagine it would be difficult to find high quality erasable lead. |
If you read the above posts you would see that they have already determined that it does exist. |
I read Minion's first post, and hit reply.
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WhiteWidow
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Posted: 02/21/04 - 00:31 Post subject:
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| Minion wrote: | | WhiteWidow wrote: | | Go to your local art store and ask them. I am sure it exists, I have seen it, but not the kind you are probably looking for. I would imagine it would be difficult to find high quality erasable lead. |
Sanford makes penciles called Col-Erase pencils (which is basically what I use now) -- They're easily eraseable color pencils, not the typical plastic/nearly crayon type. The only problem is that sanford doesn't make mechanical pencil lead like that, only sharpen shit. Someone MUST make something similar in mechanical lead format. |
Like I said, ask your local art store.
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Sabalo
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Posted: 02/21/04 - 08:58 Post subject:
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talk about pencils wtf
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marie
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 01:17 Post subject:
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wal-mart has some b/c that's what my younger sister uses.
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Ashley
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 01:40 Post subject:
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i havent seen any on sale this year, but last year they had a whole line of it at officemax i believe.. metallic blue, green, magenta, purple, red, etc... im not sure the exact thickness.. it was somewhere around .07-.09. (btw.. by metallic i mean has a little shine to it, look at metallic gel pens in stores-same type deal. It erased so/so, most came off, but with some of the colors a residue erase mark stayed- kind of like a crappy erasable pen. Anyway, they werent really art-quality, more for writing than drawing. If you are using them for drawing, i dont see why you would need mechanical.. ditch out the money and buy a box of prismacolor brand colored pencils with a ghetto sharpener.. the quality is definately worth it, best colored pencils out there.
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GruntingCod
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 01:41 Post subject:
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Prismicolors are teh best.
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Renork
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 01:49 Post subject:
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Not sure if it was sugested but why not just download autocad and do your drawings on the PC, I hated doing drawings on the boards in drafting, PC is much more fun.
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 04:05 Post subject:
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Minion
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 12:24 Post subject:
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| Tinkle wrote: | | Not sure if it was sugested but why not just download autocad and do your drawings on the PC, I hated doing drawings on the boards in drafting, PC is much more fun. |
Because the whole point of using mechanical pencils is so that I can draw in places where I don't have easy access to a pencil sharpener, eg: OUTSIDE... 90% of my drawings are already done on the PC via a graphics tablet and openCanvas. Unfortunately only being able to draw at home or places where I bring seven pre-sharpened pencils is an inconvenience. Up until now I've simply been sketching in ballpoint pen everywhere else which doesn't work well.
| Quote: | | Prismicolors are teh best. |
No.
The entire reason why I sketch in a blue pencil is so that it leaves less of a mark after I ink the picture and erase it.
Anything that doesn't erase well is useless. Hence why I use Col-Erase pencils.
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wellspoken
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 12:50 Post subject:
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Idiot.
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Renork
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 13:26 Post subject:
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| Minion wrote: | | Tinkle wrote: | | Not sure if it was sugested but why not just download autocad and do your drawings on the PC, I hated doing drawings on the boards in drafting, PC is much more fun. |
Because the whole point of using mechanical pencils is so that I can draw in places where I don't have easy access to a pencil sharpener, eg: OUTSIDE... 90% of my drawings are already done on the PC via a graphics tablet and openCanvas. Unfortunately only being able to draw at home or places where I bring seven pre-sharpened pencils is an inconvenience. Up until now I've simply been sketching in ballpoint pen everywhere else which doesn't work well.
| Quote: | | Prismicolors are teh best. |
No.
The entire reason why I sketch in a blue pencil is so that it leaves less of a mark after I ink the picture and erase it.
Anything that doesn't erase well is useless. Hence why I use Col-Erase pencils. |
Oooooo, I assusmed you were doing drafting drawings, now I take it just regular drawings, heh. Makes sense now.
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Brash
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 13:43 Post subject: Re: Really stupid question...
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| Minion wrote: | | Does anyone know if colored mechanical pencil lead exists? If so where to buy it cause I can't find any anywhere. |
google
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 16:36 Post subject:
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| wellspoken wrote: | | Kbarr wrote: | |
Idiot. |
Take your crayons, coloring book and go outside.
And don't come back in, until I tell you too.
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Minion
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Posted: 02/22/04 - 17:13 Post subject: Re: Really stupid question...
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| Brash wrote: | | Minion wrote: | | Does anyone know if colored mechanical pencil lead exists? If so where to buy it cause I can't find any anywhere. |
google |
Literacy.
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