Just received this lot of vintage leads won on another
E-bay auction. The box was filled mostly with
Eagle Turquoise Drawing Leads of different grades that judging from their packaging date back to the
1930s through the
1970s.
After organizing them, I realized that it is going to take a bit of time to properly test and review each of them. Thus consider this mainly a preview.
Really love the Art Deco design of their packaging. The wooden trays with cardboard sleeves might not be as sturdy and close as securely unaided as modern plastic packaging, but they provided adequate protection while looking quite sharp on a drafting desk. Probably smell a lot nicer too.
A glance of the side of the box revealed that it originally held half a gross (72 leads) of
2H leads, but I am a lot happier with the softer grades it was loaded with instead: 2 packages of of
HB leads and 10 of
B leads that are much more fun to use for freehand sketching and doodling.
Bit of a sad reminder than less than a century ago such fine drafting products were still proudly manufactured in the U.S.A. Keep in mind that during the
XX century every building, every great feat of engineering, most significant accomplishments of humankind, and quite a few pieces of Art started with plans and blueprints probably drafted with similar
graphite leads.
Just a few quick doodle tests on white card stock verified that all the different grades of this
Eagle Turquoise Drawing Leads still worked great.
Got a pretty good tonal range from
8H through
B graphite grades, samples of at least 3 different brands of drafting leads in vintage packaging, and pretty much doubled my current stock of lead refills for sketching with this lot. Suffice it to say, today I am quite the happy camper.
Just received this lot of vintage leads won on another E-bay auction. The box was filled mostly with Eagle Turquoise Drawing Leads of different grades that judging from their packaging date back to the 1930s through the 1970s.
After organizing them, I realized that it is going to take a bit of time to properly test and review each of them. Thus consider this mainly a preview.
Really love the Art Deco design of their packaging. The wooden trays with cardboard sleeves might not be as sturdy and close as securely unaided as modern plastic packaging, but they provided adequate protection while looking quite sharp on a drafting desk. Probably smell a lot nicer too.
A glance of the side of the box revealed that it originally held half a gross (72 leads) of 2H leads, but I am a lot happier with the softer grades it was loaded with instead: 2 packages of of HB leads and 10 of B leads that are much more fun to use for freehand sketching and doodling.
Bit of a sad reminder than less than a century ago such fine drafting products were still proudly manufactured in the U.S.A. Keep in mind that during the XX century every building, every great feat of engineering, most significant accomplishments of humankind, and quite a few pieces of Art started with plans and blueprints probably drafted with similar graphite leads.
Just a few quick doodle tests on white card stock verified that all the different grades of this Eagle Turquoise Drawing Leads still worked great. 
Got a pretty good tonal range from 8H through B graphite grades, samples of at least 3 different brands of drafting leads in vintage packaging, and pretty much doubled my current stock of lead refills for sketching with this lot. Suffice it to say, today I am quite the happy camper.
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4 comments:
Sé de muchas tiendas de dibujo que tienen la mitad de material que tú, Alberto.
Es de agradecer lo que tú haces, porque los consumidores de los materiales de dibujo no tenemos información de todos ellos y, a veces, tenemos que comprarlos "a ciegas"
Un 10 tu blog.
Saludos
Gracias por el comentario. Pero en estos tiempos en que uno puede "Google" cualquier cosa, uno puede reducir facilmente las compras "a ciegas" de nuevos materiales de dibujo despues de investigarlos un poco. A menos que prefieran las sorpresaas por supuesto.
Sí, pero:
Durante un tiempo he estado investigando sobre los rotuladores pincel.
En google (o internet) puedes ver el rotulador, pero no probarlo.
Ya me hubiera gustado que alguien me dijera la dureza de sus puntas (cedras o de goma), la opacidad de su tinta,...
Habra que hacer mas video reviews entonces. Ironicamente, sospecho que ningun rotulador pincel pueda reemplazar completamente a un buen pincel de pelo de marta con su botella de tinta negra.
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