Иван on Nostr: I recently wrote about how everyone in the USSR admired Koh-i-Noor pencils. I decided ...
I recently wrote about how everyone in the USSR admired Koh-i-Noor pencils. I decided to buy their modern premium pencil (both today and in the past that model is Toison d’Or). And here’s the result.
On the left is cedar; on the right is what Koh-i-Noor calls cedar. What it’s actually called in reality, I have no idea; people on forums suggested it might be jelutong. Personally, I admit it might actually be cedar - but the kind of cedar that might as well be jelutong.
As for the graphite core, artists would probably judge it better. I can only compare the writing quality with a school Staedtler pencil and with Faber-Castell 9000.
Verdict: crap.
Как будто он более глинистый, более кондовый. Нет даже близко того ощущения «как по маслу», свойственного его коллегам по премиальному статусу. Здесь это не более чем маркетинг. Я беру китайский нонейм-грифель в пихте и ощущаю всё то же самое на бумаге. Само по себе это не трагедия, особенно для художников, просто, вместе с древесиной это даёт полное представление о продукте.
Were people in the USSR mistaken? I don’t know. Maybe things really were better back then.
#pencilstr
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2026-03-08 23:40:36 UTCEvent JSON
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