About this product
•Come with 6 Pack mechanical drafting pencils, including 0.5 mm & 0.7mm & 0.9mm and 2mm, 12 tubes of refill: 0.5 & 0.7 & 0.9mm, 2.0 mm (2B HB 2H), 3 Pack of erasers, 9Pack of cap eraser refills, 2 Pack sharpener and a mechanical pencil case.
•Various line widths: 0.5/0.7/0.9/2.0, the 2mm graphite pencil come with 3 hardness lead 2B HB and 2H. perfect for your daily use, they don’t break easily, and write smoothly.
•Ergonomic, Comfortable Design. The lead advances easily at the touch of a click. There is a sharpener in the cap of 2.0 mm mechanical pencil.
•Rhombus textured rubber grips and metal threaded anti-skidding, these pencils adopt different grip design base on pencil weight and applicable scene.
•Perfect for writing, drafting, drawing, sketching or architectural working.
The pens themselves, are beautiful. They are comfortable to hold. Its plenty of refills and erasers to draw til your imagination's content. Great addition to my art supplies.
Pros:
The pencils all feel good in the hand, are responsive and stable. The vinyl erasers work well on decent paper and do not catch. The leads draw quite smoothly, sharpen nicely and erase cleanly
Cons:
Sharpeners: ditch the razors and get a proper lead grinder for the 2mm leads, It will save you a ton of mess. Stadler makes a great barrel grinder that is fairly cheap.
Lead is fairly fragile at extreme sharpness but is resilient enough at normal levels, over all it is strong enough to do super fine detail workas long as you have a light hand.
The beziel that indicates the type of lead on the mechanical pencils ( .5, .7, .9) has only HB as an option.
The 2mm lead holders a very light owing to the plastic body but they are sturdy.
2mm lead holders bezel indicates only 2B - 2H hardness. It's enough for this kit and includes some (B and H) that are not included.
This kit lacks a kneeled eraser and gum eraser, which is absolutely essential when working with graphite. But that is a fairly easy addition.
Over all I would highly recommend this kit for any beginner or people who need an cheap stop-gap kit.
Update: couple months in and this kit is now part of my regular equipment for at home. The lettering paint on the pencil bodies has worn away but otherwise they are going strong. If you are gentle with them they will last a decent while. And the leads provided are quite decent. A couple of easy modifications or additions can take care of the previously mentioned shortcomings. Over all very happy with the purchase.