Best Slimline Pencil Kit?

[RogerGarrett]

Hi All,

I have been asked to turn some slimline pencils for some music friends who like to keep such pencils in their music instrument cases. Generally this has been fun, because I make reed cases for clarinets, bassoons, saxophones, and oboes, and many people want a pencil to match the wood reed case (often matching their instrument color/grain/wood). My frustration has been that the slimline pencils come in varying qualities from different manufactures, and the lead sizes are varying as well (.05 - .07 yes?). Anyway, I'm asking the collective here what Slimline style pencil kits hold up the best and have the thickest leads? Sources for purchase?

Thanks very much!
Roger Garrett

 

[gbpens]

I have had good luck with the Slimline pencil kit from Berea Hardwoods. Most customers have preferred the .5mm lead.

 

[BULLWINKLE]

Woodcraft still sells them with platinum plating. They call it platinum but it's a close relative. It's rhodium which most companies don't do anymore because rhodium got very expensive. They are a good price so they may have gotten them a while back.