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Eberhard Faber CONTAK 440 Lead Pencil Unsharpened Vintage Lot of 3
A review of this pencil...from on this description it seems that theContak 440was meant to occupy the same retail space as theIBM Electrographic. What surprises me, however, is how different those two pencils are. TheContakhas a softer lead, but the softness is expressed in a brittle and powdery way as opposed to being soft in the “traditional” sense (i.e. a thicker, waxier lead like a 3B or 4B). The IBM pencil is very much like a standard No. 2.
TheContak’slead is a bit darker than that of theBlackwing, but it should be said that theBlackwingdoesn’t have a particularly dark lead to begin with. On anything but the smoothest paper (e.g. Clairefontaine), theContak’spoint gets eaten-up quickly. I can see how it might work well with test-scoring sheets, though I don’t know if its conductive properties make it any more useful or reliable than a standard No. 2 (but who knows, maybe you should refrain from using them during a lightning storm…).
All in all it’s a very interesting pencil: its scarcity and uniqueness drive my interest, but also because I like writing with them. If you adopt a lighter touch, theContak 440doesn’t require any more frequent sharpening than, say, a No. 1 or B pencil.
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