Apsara, launched in 1970s as a premium stationery brand started with drawing pencils as its first product. Watch to find out what we think about this ubiquitous pencil with it’s distinctive black and silver colours.

Rest assured, this partnership with Inkarto guarantees the authenticity and reliability of the products you purchase. Vishal: Right, because the quality of the metal in those blades is not as good as that of a an actual sharpener that you spend money on. The submitted video will be thoroughly reviewed by our dedicated team to validate the authenticity of the damage claim. We would love to send you the best offers relevant for your child from time to time and so we have added these details to your FirstCry. I don’t even remember, but it’s maybe a dollar or so for a box of 20 of these which comes with the sharpener and an eraser.

Vishal: It’s fantastic to know that these are still wood, they’re not some space age or cheap composite material that you would expect them to be by now. Feature :- Softwood for easy sharpening, Dark lead needs less pressure when writing, Extra dark lead for good handwriting. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. The Apsara Platinum pencil has its selling point in its name, it is an an Extra Dark writing pencil.

Samir: It depends on where the instructor is from and what they have used before, so you would get a variety of recommendations. Samir: The Apsara Platinum Extra Dark, Apsara is a trademark of the Hindustan Pencil Company, which we have mentioned before when we did a episode on the Nataraj Plasto eraser. Well, it’s a nice pencil, I’ve also tried using the Lyra and Kohinoor pencils recently which I kind of prefer over these. But again these were, as we keep saying, a lot of these come down to personal preferences and conveniences. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.The 10 pencils arrive bundled with a long point sharpener ripe for hacking and a little plastic eraser. Samir: In fact if you actually read the inscription, it says ‘Apsara Platinum Extra Dark For Good Handwriting.

Samir: I think that that when we’re working on things in an A4 size, the wedge sharpening of a pencil with a blade or craft knife really doesn’t have too much of benefit. At 58 cents a pencil this doesn’t reach into most folx premium range, and it’s about 20 cents cheaper than last week’s review.We are here to give shape to your hobbies, wings to your professional career and make you embrace your artistic side. I sharpened mine up in my hacked Apsara Long Point housed in a RandomThinks 3D printed holder (a killer tool check out his insta to see if you can get one) and it sharpens up to a lovely point. Samir: I think from what I have heard other people say as well, it kind of works well for a few sharpening’s and then it just loosens out. Vishal: When you’re working on a deadline, you have to rely on things that you have rather than on the best tool for the job all the time.

And until next time when we’ll have another Stationery Test Drive with something equally enjoyable and wonderful, I’ve been Vishal.

is an Indian manufacturer of pencils, writing materials and other stationery items, established in 1958 [1] in Bombay (present-day Mumbai). It’s cheap, it’s abundantly available, now you know even in the US it’s available, so go get yourself some.