On my last visit to the Utrecht store in Miami, I came across some sliding boxes of 10 Faber Castell TK 9071 2 mm leads in their drafting section. I found it a bit surprising since most stores usually carry Staedtler or Berol Turquoise in this product category, and it had been several years since I found Faber Castell leads at retail. Thus I picked up some 3B leads to fill a hole in my collection.
The 2 mm leads sharpened easily with this matching compact lead pointer.
The Faber Castell Wave vinyl eraser could not remove its dark 3B marks completely from this Artist Sketch card stock, so it would probably be better to save this softer lead for the finishing stages of a drawing.
This 3B lead was quite smooth and pleasant to use for doodling and sketching.
My current collection of Faber Castell 2 mm graphite leads now includes the following grades: 6H, 4H, H, HB, 2B, 3B, 4B, and 6B. The older sliding boxes of Faber Castell 9030 with 12 leads each were from a Pearl sidewalk sale a few years back. I find that I seldom use the H leads for sketching, and that I have almost finished my set of 2B leads. Thus I'll have to look for a replacement tube pretty soon. Recommended for their quality and performance. Worth trying if you can find them locally. The only online source that I have already tried and currently carries them would be Wet Paint.UPDATE: Found a local source for the Faber Castell TK 9071 2 mm leads here in Naples when I went to frame a drawing for The von Liebig Art Center Faculty Biennial 2010 at a local framing shop, I was pleasantly surprised to find that Koenig Art Emporium also carries several Faber Castell artist's pencils in open stock.

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