STRIKER Construction Pencil with DURA LEAD combo pack

List Price: $3.69 Discount Price: $3.99

Features:

• NO MORE SHARPENING!!! RED AND WHITE DURA LEAD AVAILABLE NOW!
• Extremely durable, efficient and rugged
• DuraLead is 18% Thicker than average lead
• Professional marking tool for all trades of construction
• Visit www.strikerpencil.com for more info and video demo

Customer Reviews:

Excellent lead, some loss of precision [Posted on 2007-02-14]
Good points:
- lead is very durable and does not wear down quickly
- grips securely without slipping
- easy to move lead down a notch as it is used

Bad point:
- the stepped plastic tip makes it more difficult to draw a line along a straightedge than if using a wooden pencil

Overall, I like the nice thick line and the durable lead. So far I haven't had the lead break! This will definitely have a place in my pocket for drawing long offset lines along a sheet of plywood and writing sizing info and instructions on cut lumber. But for short distances where a precise line is required, a well-sharpened pencil still wins out.

The Striker is a great tool - recommended  [Posted on 2007-03-06]
The Striker was shipped fast and I am completely happy with the product. It is very well made. The function is simple, which I think is good. The lead is strong and has worked great for all of my projects especially on concrete where my old pencils would constantly need sharpening. The pocket clip is a nice touch, but it still fits in my tool belt.
I put a sharp tip on my lead by just rubbing the tip on concrete, like the picture shows. it is great because the sharp edge is still broad and strong. I can use it on a straight edge or spped square like a scribe now it gets so close.

Great pencil for working!!!! [Posted on 2007-04-07]
This product has been very durable, and is convenient in working environments.

not a rave review, but not all that bad [Posted on 2007-12-18]
OK this isn't an acuasation, but when there are 4 rave reviews for an item that as soon as you use it, you see the drawbacks, you have to check out the reviewers. Each of those four reviewers had only ONE review and it was of course of this product. Here's a review by a woodworker who reviews items all the time, some good, some bad... and the average ones get little attention from me other than in circumstances like this.

First, the good parts. The red case is easy to find. I have not yet broken the case, and since I drop things a lot, that's good. The colored leads make it possible to make a visible line on almost anything... if you happen to be carrying the appropriate lead with you. It's easy to load and easy to advance the lead when needed.

Next, the problems. The biggest one is, when you drop the pencil, the lead shatters into multiple short strips. Since it takes a strip of at least an inch or more to clasp properly, it definitely shortens the usefulness of each lead if it's in three or more pieces. Also once the lead is short, it tends to skew in the holder, so it's sometimes hard to see where it's going to mark if you're, say, trying to mark to the 16th of an inch on a framing square. If you don't work within a 16th of an inch that's fine, then...but it's a bit disconcerting to find you've marked a tight fit wrong and you have to redo it because it's too short or too long to fit.

Another small thing, it doesn't stay in my T-shirt pocket very well. It's too long for the clip to grab very much pocket and oops, you bend over and there's the lead shattered yet again.

Oh, and one more tiny problem is that the point is too blunt to be able to see the lead if you're marking something right in front of you. So you turn the pencil sideways so you can see the lead, but now you've got it on the flat side marking and you have to tilt it to get the corner of the lead (unless you sharpened it, which was the whole idea of getting this pencil in the first place, because you're not supposed to have to sharpen it.

I'll keep working with it because I bought 4 sets of refills and if I find some workarounds or ways to make it work better I'll update. I find dropping it into my jeans pocket is a good idea because it's safer there.

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