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General's Primo Euro Charcoal Pencils and Sets

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Handmade in small batches with rich, organic blacks to achieve intense drawing tones and values, Primo is a creamy, rich, premium charcoal drawing formula that can be used alone, or in combination with other charcoal, graphite, pastels, or mixed media. Primo pencils can also be used for quick layouts in oil painting.

All Primo pencils are made in the U.S.A. using the highest-quality sustained-yield cedar to ensure smooth sharpening and strength.

Charcoal Pencil Set — This six-piece set includes the following materials:

1 Primo Bianco charcoal pencil
3 Primo Euro Blend charcoal pencils
1 sharpener
1 Factis Magic Black eraser

Charcoal Pencil Deluxe Set — This deluxe set contains a unique collection of premium charcoal drawing pencils and compressed charcoal sticks that includes the new Primo Elite Grande Pencil. The set includes the following materials:

3 Primo Euro Blend charcoal pencils
1 Primo Bianco charcoal pencil
1 Primo Elite Grande pencil
4 Primo compressed charcoal sticks
1 Factis Magic Black eraser
1 General’s kneaded rubber eraser
1 Little Red All-Art sharpener with canister

® General's is a registered trademark of the General Pencil Company. ® Factis, and All-Art are registered trademarks. ™ Primo, Primo Elite, Euro Blend, Magic Black, and Little Red are trademarks.

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General's Primo Euro Charcoal Pencils and Sets

3.0

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2/10/2013

1.0

unusable

By Borna

from USA, PA

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Comments about General's Primo Euro Charcoal Pencils and Sets:

I have bought more than 4 different batches of B and 3B of these pencils. I have two industrial grade electric sharpeners and long story short; I cannot get a sharp tip without breaking them at least 3-4 times. Especially the 3B pencil is totally unusable. If anyone here knows of any sharpener that can sharpen these without breaking please let me know. I've wasted so much money on these pencils thinking I had received bad batches and kept buying more. They are very dark and rich if you can sharpen them. For me, I stick to the regular General's.

Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: At Blick we always attempt to provide the best information possible to our customers. In this case, we would advise that Electric Sharpeners are not recommended for the PRIMO and other General’s fine art charcoal or pastel pencils. Instead, General’s recommends the Little Red All-Art sharpener (Blick Item #21424-1010) as the preferred sharpener for PRIMO and other soft cored pencils such as Charcoal and Pastels. If you ever have specific questions regarding our products or how to use them, please contact our Product Information Department at info@dickblick.com or by calling (800) 933-2542. Our product specialists will be happy to help you with questions about art materials, product applications, and techniques.

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1/4/2013

1.0

i threw them in my old paint water.

By Richard

from Dallas Tx

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Comments about General's Primo Euro Charcoal Pencils and Sets:

Long story short, they are awesome if you like wasting your time. I wasted more then half of the pencils in sharping them (in less than 5 minutes) the led keeps breaking in the sharpener, so I switched sharpeners and they just kept breaking. I might have got a defected batch but I doubt i'll be buying them again.

Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend

Merchant response: We apologize for the issues you encountered with this product. If you are not completely satisfied with the quality of the merchandise you receive, you are entitled to a full replacement or refund. We ask that you contact our Customer Care Center at 800-723-2787 within 30 days so that the exchange, refund, or credit transaction can be arranged to your satisfaction.

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10/18/2011

(5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Primo Elite Grande is Outstanding

By Patrick

from FL

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Comments about General's Primo Euro Charcoal Pencils and Sets:

The charcoal pencils are almost identical in darkness and softness to Ritmo charcoal pencils. They seem to have perhaps made this set to compete with them directly. There is a new pencil in the large set: Primo Elite Grande. This carbon pencil is outstanding. I did some side-by-side comparisons of standard Generals, Ritmo, Primo as well as Wolff's and Conte Carbons. The Elite Grande pencil is the darkest pencil out of all the above listed brands. It also has no shine or reflective quality. Very flat, pitch black. If you already use Ritmo, these charcoal pencils are no different. Except for that Elite Grande pencil. Unfortunately, Blick doesn't sell the Elite Grande Separately. It can be bought at other stores by itself, though. The three compressed sticks are different than General's standard Charcoal compressed sticks. The Primo HB is almost Identical to the General's 2B. The Primo B is essentially a 6B. The Primo 3B is softer than B, but about the same darkness as the General' 6B. The 4B in General's doesn't have a comparable stick in the Primo. Nice pencils.

7/3/2010

(3 of 4 customers found this review helpful)

5.0

Very good pencils

By Mary the Hobbyist

from Queens, NY

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These charcoal pencils are quite nice. They are actually my first charcoals, but I really like them. Good controllability and deep black color. They're quite fun to use.

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Item	Description		PricePrices, promotions, and availability may vary by store, catalog, and online.	Bulk!	Qty	MSDS

Bulk Discounts! →			Each	6+
20495-1009	Primo Euro Charcoal Pencil Set	List $7.39	$6.05	$5.49
20495-2009	Primo Euro Charcoal Pencil Deluxe Set	List $17.99	$11.99	$10.47

			Each
20495-2030	Extra Soft 3B	List $1.50	$0.99
20495-2000	Soft B	List $1.50	$0.99
20495-2090	Hard HB	List $1.50	$0.99
20495-1020	White	List $1.50	$0.99