One of the oldest professional uses for graphite, compass leads are still made today.
Cylindrical segments in shape, the face of the wedge is an ellipse.
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One of the oldest professional uses for graphite, compass leads are still made today.
Cylindrical segments in shape, the face of the wedge is an ellipse.
(Cylindrical segment? You learn something new every day, I guess!)
Do you happen to know if these work for any compass, or just a specific one from Faber-Castell? The compasses I have at home are usually the ones which you use separate pencils with, or ones that don’t have leads that are replaceable.
Thanks for the comment, awin. The leads are not Faber-Castell specific. They are for a standard compass type which takes 2mm leads.
Pretty neat find. While I haven’t used any of my compass sets in years, I suppose I could use any 2 mm lead stubs in a pinch and shape them with sandpaper.
I’m a student (living in Slovakia) and I use my compass set regularly. I don’t understand why would anybody wonder whether compass leads are still made today :)
Donkey’s years ago when wooden pencils reigned supreme, we’d keep pencil stubs and use the leads as compass leads.
Funny how I stumbled upon a carded Helix Box Compass a couple of hours ago, and I couldn’t help myself and picked it up simply because it had a tube with those tiny graphite leads with the elliptical wedge points. Didn’t really need it, but I will now use it in my cartooning class. At least it was on clearance for just 75 cents.