Whilst I was doodling during one of my lessons(as a teacher, not a student!) I managed to fill in quite a large section of my book in pencil. I started daydreaming (I was supposed to be listening to my student) about honing and about the particle size of graphite.
Is it regular and one size or not? Is it hard enough to have an effect on steel?
I heard the dovo black paste is graphite - I didn't find this a great paste. Do you think it's possible to get a good polisher from pencil lead?
Sorry if this is in the wrong place - I just couldn't imagine colouring in a strop with pencil, so I thought that it applied more to honing than anything else.