Friday, January 16, 2015

E "clips"?

In yesterday’s installment, I shared a few late-model Eclipse pencils:


The tie that binds these three – other than the Eclipse brand, are the clips. Each has one unusual and distinctive feature: the tabs which secure the clips to the barrels are not at the tops, but are partway down, leaving a "tail" above the tabs that curls up to (and sometimes over) the tops.

In the last few months, I was attracted to a couple other lesser pencils with share that same feature...

To learn more, this full article is included in The Leadhead's Pencil Blog Volume 3, available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and everywhere else you buy books, or you can order a copy signed by yours truly through the Legendary Lead Company HERE.


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