Some of pencils come with a broken core - looks like package is not safe enough for such fragile content.
I tried only few of them right now, and when I start to sharpening - core broke one more time, so I cut already half of inch to get it sharp and not broken for a new pencils. (that one of 10 i sharpened so far).
My old koh-i-nor comes with foam rubber inside to make box softer, when I opened this box a lot of pencils were not in they trays.
They not so "soft as promised": i tested several and one of the yellows scratch paper....
As example one of the "lime" colored pencil leave distinguishable traces of green within main color - looks like pigments it not mixed well.
They not so good for shading. Some of pigments don't lay on a previous pigments. Example: white is not draw on top of green. Yellow almost don't draw on top of blue.
All this surprises makes my a bit disappointed on my new pencils...
Some of pencils come with a broken core - looks like package is not safe enough for such fragile content. I tried only few of them right now, and when I start to sharpening - core broke one more time, so I cut already half of inch to get it sharp and not broken for a new pencils. (that one of 10 i sharpened so far). My old koh-i-nor comes with foam rubber inside to make box softer, when I opened this box a lot of pencils were not in they trays. They not so "soft as promised": i tested several and one of the yellows scratch paper.... As example one of the "lime" colored pencil leave distinguishable traces of green within main color - looks like pigments it not mixed well. They not so good for shading. Some of pigments don't lay on a previous pigments. Example: white is not draw on top of green. Yellow almost don't draw on top of blue. All this surprises makes my a bit disappointed on my new pencils...