The Staedtler Tradition Pencil Review

Aha! We have it! A striped pencil! This is the first pencil I've reviewed at under £1. It's quality no doubt - who doesn't recognise this just from the pictures?

It's pegged to be below the Mars Lumograph in the Staedtler range and comes in at £0.77 over at Cult Pens. I bought one just to see what it was like in comparison to my more fancy pencils. Check out my reviews of Tombow, Mitsubishi, Faber-Castell, and the like for info on those.

Yes, that text on the barrel is not embossed, rest assured it will come off pretty sharpish through use. I'm cool with that though as we're comfortably sub-£1 here. It even comes in 14 degrees of lead from 6B to 4H. It doesn't really come much cheaper with major brand pencils. Okay, maybe the Staedtler Noris is a tiny bit cheaper.

It's a nice pencil - I'd say the feel is nigh on identical to the Mars Lumograph and at a lower price. Your mates aren't going to look at the tradition and think... Woah cool! though. That's for sure.

Awesome value though. You can get a few assorted lead grades with a sharpener and an eraser for about £5. Can't say anything bad against that. Maybe if you're kitting out your kid for school you go with these. They also come with a rubber tip version - I'm not a fan of those though, separate eraser all the way! Gives me something else to nerd out on.

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