They may also be used to mark wood, brick and metal, making them extremely popular amongst tradesmen, as well as crafters and artists. The outer casing may be made of wood (like an ordinary pencil) and sharpened with a knife or pencil sharpener.

That’s why you will find a large selection of erasers, sharpeners and much more in the STAEDTLER range. No matter what you use a pencil for - for drawing or writing - a sharp lead is required at all times. The original and leading marker pencil for marking on glass, china, acetate, film and polished surfaces.

The Essentials Company are specialist suppliers of plant labelling, tagging, tying, marking, and floristry sundries for the business, home and garden. Our high-quality pencil accessories sharpen your pencils in an instant and help you achieve optimum writing and drawing results. Contrary to the belief that pencil leads are made of lead, the material is not used at all in the production of this popular writing and drawing instrument. For perfect writing and drawing results, you not only need high-quality pencils, but also the right accessories. In the days when broadcast studios had a library of LP records, a track which was prohibited from public performance could be defaced by a wavy white or yellow chinagraph line, giving a visible warning to the presenter as well as making that track unusable.

This pencil is usually made from non-toxic opaque wax (such as paraffin, beeswax, ceresin, carnauba or spermaceti wax) [1] that is similar to a crayon but stronger. Other types are covered in paper and sharpened by pulling a string to peel off the paper, needing no additional tools to remain functional. The clay acts as a binding agent and gives the lead its shape and strength, while graphite produces the characteristic silvery black colour on the page. As the lead is still very soft and bendy at this point, it has to be baked in the oven at a very high temperature. They were also used to mark glassware, during production (the original Chinagraph is so-named for marking porcelain during manufacture) and in medical or scientific applications.However, there are further differentiations in the hardness grades H and B, which are determined by a number placed in front of the letter. Professional and amateur artists use them for drawing and sketching, but pencils can really be used for just about anything and by any age group.

citation needed] Marks made by grease pencils are resistant to moisture and can usually be removed by rubbing the marked surface with a paper towel. The West Chinagraph Pencil is the original writing instrument for use on glass, acetate, film, china and other polished surfaces. There is no need to sharpen the pencil, so as long as you regularly refill it, you have a pencil that is ready to use at all times - at school, in the office and on the go! More recently, it has been produced in propelling form, essentially similar to a mechanical pencil, this type in particular being associated with knee boards employed by NATO aircrew. Grease pencils were also widely used during the mid-20th century in aircraft control centers, military radar defense system stations on land and in aircraft carriers in particular.The grease pencil, a wax writing tool also known as a wax pencil, china marker, or chinagraph pencil (especially in the United Kingdom), is a writing implement made of hardened colored wax and is useful for marking on hard, glossy non-porous surfaces. The STAEDTLER range includes wood barrel pencils in 20 different degrees of hardness - from hard models (9H - 3H), which are ideal for technical drawing, for example, to very soft models (9B - 3B), which are often used as drawing pencils - and last but not least our classic writing pencils (2B, B, HB, H, 2H). These Chinagraph Pencils are p erfect for writing or drawing on most surfaces, including glass, china and acetate. Cass Art, Cass Art London and the Cass Art logo are trade marks and trade names of Art-Line Limited. Surfaces used with grease pencils include glass, rock, polished stone, plastic, ceramics, acetate, and other glazed, lacquered or polished surfaces, and metal, as well as the glossy paper that is used for photographic printing (particularly for contact sheets), x-rays, maps, and for marking edits on analog audio tape and film.

It is often used as a construction or handyman's marking tool as it rarely scratches the surface it is used on.Made of a combination of pigment and waxes, it's fully waterproof and can be rubbed off easily with a dry cloth.