The assertion of the other two customers, these pins were not sharp, I can not understand at all. I have sharpened the pencils repeatedly both with a sharpener and a utility knife and me is never a tip broken off. With a Dosenspitzer I have not tried it, something you ultimately does not. Otherwise, I can say the following good things about the pins: + The mine is very robust and crumbles not (as opposed, for example, to Derwent pencils) + Although there are only 24 colors, these are very well chosen. The skin color z. B. is of all pins and brands that I know the most genuine. (For comparison: 3 Faber Castell has "flesh tones" of which 2 are in fact pink available!) + The color image is smoother than most other colored pencils. + You can put several layers one above the other (which eg Faber Castell Polychromos hardly goes.)
And at this great price. I would like to give 6 stars.