Saw this furniture sized Caran d’Ache set in an art store in Taipei this past week.
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Nice! Looks great
They’ll be designing transportation solutions through all of that soon enough!!
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I always enjoy seeing the scales 
As part of the company’s reorganisation in 1993, Faber-Castell stopped using the scales, which had featured on its products – not just pencils – for 118 years. However, they are still registered to Faber-Castell (a short history of the scales can be found in my weblog at Die Waage).
Speaking of PITT: Not so long ago Faber-Castell introduced the woodcased PITT Graphite Matt pencil (see Pitt Graphite Matt Bleistifte ). I bought it in 14B but unfortunately it is not as dark and smooth as I have expected.
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After watching this video, I ordered Stabilo CarbOthello chalk-pastel pencils and Faber-Castell PITT pastel pencils for my kids to use for practicing layering and details, respectively.
Thanks to the community for pointing me in this unexpected direction to support my kids’ development.
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Resetting thread on its rails with an underrated clutch pencil 
Love sketching with it to get quick visuals in colour that then may or may not be turned into something else.
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You have to have seen the leads though - at first I thought they were plastic dummies to be replaced with real one. It’s a strange feeling to draw with this
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I use the multi-8 to annotate elements in my Geometry textbooks, especially during proof-building: many geometric constructions needed in reaching a theorem verification require a lot of lines, sub-figures and additional elements, and often the overall picture becomes particularly messy.
The multi-8 comes in handy to quickly switch from one colour to the other, in order to highlight relationship otherwise hidden in the uniform forest of solid black lines. Super-useful tool, I wholeheartedly recommend it to any student in Math, and it has become a real EDC in fields like graph theory, synthetic Geometry, and any fisual representation of formal concepts and reasoning. 
(Besides, the colours of the lead are truly nice and vibrant, and leave a pleasant trace on many types of paper: for some reasons, the quality of the pigments in the lead easily surpass what the general market can offer, as if they were designed specifically for that purpose, instead of aiming at artistic or technical drawings.)
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Yes, they suck immensely I use it for roughs only
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Does Multi-8 include florescent pink and florescent yellow? I use those 2mm leads from Pentel for highlighting.
I am unsure, as I got my model from a seller of vintage items, and it came with “standard” colours; I assume, from what I can find online, that those two fluorescent colours are available as standalone refills, and my version of the Multi-8 does not come with pre-marked slots, so I can in principle insert any piece of 2.00mm lead I want in anyone of the eight tubes. Newer variants (grey body) are instead designed for specific lead colours, so in those sets I think the highlighting colours are included in the package.
Will definitely try the highlighters, as the yellow is a notoriously “difficult” colour to use, and a highlighter ought to be better calibrated for sure.
Multi 8 PH802 (gray model) has 8 colors included and marked: Red, Blue, Brown, Orange, Yellow, Green, Daizo non copy (red), and PPC non copy (blue).
There is lemon yellow you can use it as a highlighter, but it’s not florescent. Also no pink of any kind.
The one I posted above is a 1st model possibly, and it comes with 8 plain colours no special leads for proof reading like the Multi 8 (2 non-copy leads)
Now that you’ve mentioned it, I remember feeling a bit disappointed with Staedtler’s colour leads too. I tried an orange and a green one and they positively sucked as well 
They are actually wax leads, miles apart from the stuff they use in coloured pencils.
Mitsubishi UNI red leads, though, are absolutely top quality. I love drawing with them. They just let you have the right speed for contour drawing, e.g.