Also coming soon to Pencil World will be our newly arrived Palomino Aquarelle pencil sets, a couple new Spangle decorative pencils and a unique new Palomino WoodCrafter Kit.

And finally I just listed a very special auction item on our new “Vintage & Collectables” Page. This item is one of our limited edition Palomino Cedar wood ballpoint pens. For more on this item see my most recent Timberlines post Wood Cased vs. Mechanical.

I have some of the green ones, and the paint job is very nice. It’s vibrant, smooth and very well-done near the ferrule. One of my biggest biases is that I hate when pencils have the paint chipped up near the ferrules. The top of the Prospector is perfect.

This pencil is supposed to be geared toward the less-expensive pencil market. Considered in that light, I think it’s top-notch. The attention to detail in a lot of modern pencils and quality control leave me wanting. I’m tired of tearing open a pack of Black Warriors and finding that the paint is flawed on half of them, and the ferrules don’t always fit properly. But the Prospector, like it’s slightly more expensive brethren the Golden Bear and the Palomino, is just a darned well-made pencil. Although geared to the school/office setting, I think it would be more at home in the same pencil cup as a Faber-Castell or Dixon, for sure.