For many pencil users, the Mono 100 by Tombow is one of the best wooden pencils ever made. The model is a favorite among draftsmen, designers, other professionals, and students

The pencils require only a soft touch when writing, feature break-resistant high-density graphite lead, and have beautiful glossy black paint finishes. Inside, each pencil contains a high-density lead core with 10 billion particles (or a hundred hundred million) per cubic millimeterhence the name 100. An impressive range of 17 lead grades is available. The lead grades are as follows, listed from softest to hardest: 6B, 5B, 4B, 3B, 2B, B, HB, F, H, 2H, 3H, 4H, 5H, 6H, 7H, 8H, and 9H.

This is a dozen 5H unsharpened pencils in sturdy plastic box.

About TOMBOW

Tombow Pencil Co., Ltd. of Japan has a long history of product innovation since its founding in 1913. The company started using “tombow” (i.e. “dragon fly” in Japanese) as its trade mark in 1927. Tombow’ are renowned for their Fudenosuke (???) brush pens with their soft and brush-like nib and the very high quality lead drawing and writing pencils.