I buy a pack of 12 Dixon "Ticonderoga" 2 HB about once a year. I use a pencil about a dozen times a day. I started out as a draftsman about 60 years ago and about every type mechanical pencil on the the market then. Nothing beats a pencil in the wood shop


If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles