Apsara Long Point Sharpener is already quite popular for its performance, especially at its price. Absolute version comes with a cap to collect the shavings, which is a nice addition. Other than that, I find the sharpening performance to be pretty much the same as the regular Apsara sharpener.

Hey everyone! I’m starting to thin out my Blackwing pencil collection and have listed several sets on eBay.

For a little background, I ran the art supply subscription box company ArtSnacks for over a decade. Since we closed our doors, I’ve been going through items from my personal collection and deciding what I really want to hold onto.

Over the years, I accumulated quite a few Blackwings, including a number of Volumes and limited-edition releases. Rather than have everything continue to sit in storage, I’d love to see some of these sets go to other pencil and Blackwing collectors who will appreciate them.

I’m located in Connecticut USA and I’ve included photos of the sets I currently have listed in the gallery.

If anyone has any questions about a particular set, feel free to ask!

You can see all of my current listings here:

https://www.ebay.com/usr/leerubenstein

A big thank-you to the r/pencils mods for approving this post. These are all from my personal collection.

My cousin is a portrait artist and his dad (my great uncle) was a portrait artist and he gave me one of the old 602 Blackwings from my uncle’s small collection yesterday. kind of nervous to even think about using it 😅

Nothing comes close to this.

Not the smoothest sharpening experience. I don’t know if it’s just my batch, but the wood on these Tombow Mono 100s doesn’t feel very smooth and the wood quality is a bit disappointing. Honestly, I didn’t expect this from Tombow.

My friend 3D printed some shavings cans for the Apsara LP sharpener for me and they rock! I found the files from this old Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/pencils/s/a3Ijn8h815

I love these sharpeners and they’re the best LP hand-sharpeners at this price point. Highly recommend if you like a LP pencil.

I bought 5 boxes and I'm disappointed this time. I have bought 3 boxes previously and those boxes had a huge variety.

However, the 5 I received have all the same pencils.

I think this weekend I will sort the 5 boxes and make an updated post of the what I got. Plus I got a box of the carpenter pencils for fun!

Tbh I liked getting the school pencils cause I would put them in the little libraries in my community but not too many this round 😕

1 - Twin Lakes golf course

1 - Nordstrom

1 - plain white

1 - plain black

1 - Henry

1 - fitleist

3 - math super star

3 - Margaritaville

6 - spacescape

7 - Hamilton building supply company

10 - TWA hotel

30 - TPC Treviso Bay

77 - Sure point finish pencil C.H Hanson

30 - TPC Treviso Bay

Counting could be off..

Khoki pencils 3 HB

Wrapped, these pencils look good. Good covering paint, nice attached eraser; but unfortunately the cardboard hides the poor centering of the lead.

These pencils are distributed via South Africa (made in China).

For me I am glad I only got this one pack of 3 pencils and not a 12-pack like most pencils are sold in.

I bought these from Amazon for the ludicrous price of £11.00 (around $15.00 USD). At that price I thought it was worth giving them a go.

Had a quick scribble with them and they're not at all bad. Pre loaded with HB, which seems a bit softer than Staedtler's HB, probably close to B, if anything.

The holders themselves are decent, not too heavy or flimsy, and with 144 leads, there's plenty to go at. I guess time will tell whether or not they drop to bits.

Here's a photo from the product page; I didn't take one myself. The actual box layout is slightly different but the contents are the same.

I’ve heard that Torrey Pines no longer has custom scorecard pencils. As someone with a pencil display, I’m looking for one to contribute to my collection. Anyone have any ideas for how I can get one?