From At One Remove:
“Mars Lumograph EE. Great pencil. Discontinued. Why do they do this? Last remaining stub. The tonal range would put a silverprint to shame, with a dmax darker than charcoal. The EB version at least, is still sold as 8B. Why did Staedtler make this pencil?”
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always loved that EE … it is a shame. :/
The best pencils, my favourites. After a frantic hunt I rounded up 3 EB’s and 2 EE’s, of varying lengths.
WHY discontinue the EE?
Your pencil resembles my sad EB sitting here beside me …all one and a half inches of it.
I will say, 8B is like a rebound one night stand…you regret it afterward. It does not compare to the EB. It’s like comparing an egg to a peach. You cannot find anything similar. I am sick about this…I do not want to draw with anything other than my one and a half inch stubby EB. I read that they make the EE and EB for the Malaysian market only. Are they doing this to torture us??