Best Pencil Kit?

[longbeard]

I have someone wanting a pencil and have not done a pencil yet, so i'm looking for a good quality kit.
Thank you for advice and help

Harry

 

[InvisibleMan]

Depends on what you want in a pencil, but I like and have had good success with slumping pros from PSI. 8pm tubes. It's a 2 tube pencil, but appears to be easily made into a single tube that would resemble a long clicker.

 

[thewishman]

Get the Perfect Fit. It is the most reliable of all the pencil kits, plus it can convert to pen
very easily. It is a Berea kit, suppliers:

Berea
Bear Tooth Woods
Exoticblanks
Arizona Silhouette

 

[chrisk]

+1 on the Perfect Fit with a Schmidt transmission accepting either a Parker refill or the Schmidt DSM2006 pencil mechanism. So far I found that the parts, especially on the lower barrel, are quite loose. The best fix I found is epoxy.

Two other Berea kits using the same transmission (hence pencil/pen conversion): the El Grande Ballpoint and the Cigar pencil. For the latter, you must purchase the pencil for the Cigar ballpoint has a different transmission.

Another alternative is the Sierra ballpoint conversion. Here: http://content.penturners.org/library/pencils/sierrapencil1.pdf

 

[InvisibleMan]

Depends on what you want in a pencil, but I like and have had good success with slumping pros from PSI. 8pm tubes. It's a 2 tube pencil, but appears to be easily made into a single tube that would resemble a long clicker.

Should be SLIMLINE PROS. 8mm tubes.

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[longbeard]

Thanks guys
i will check those out

Harry

 

[crabcreekind]

stay away from sierra pencils, and slimline pencils. Not sure about slimline pros. On normal slimline pencils, the black piece of plastic breaks alot. The sierra pencils aren't bad, but they just rattle at the top, and also the eraser is not sized for the pencil kit.

 

[longbeard]

What about the vertex pencil? Forgot about those until last night.

Harry

 

[Phil Hansen]

What about the vertex pencil? Harry

My carry workshop pencil is a Vertex. Like the 2mm lead and never had a problem (2 yrs) Phil

 

[longbeard]

Thanks Phil
She liked that one the best of all the ones i showed her.

Harry

 

[MattTheHat]

PSI offers their Patrizio in a .7mm pencil. I haven't done one yet but I'm planning to order a few on my next order.

 

[toolcrazy]

Sold a few of the Perfect Fit conversion. Never had an issue. Plus, they are easy to make matched sets.

 

[longbeard]

Thanks for all the advice guys, ordered the vertex from woodturningz
i will post it when finished and the details of the fit and operation of the mech.
Thanks again guys

Harry