OX Carbon Pencil VS. PICA DRY Pencil which one should you get ? Electrician Tools 

I felt like I settled for the Ox but this makes me feel better about my choice! Pica just has the branding power I guess. Nice video🔥

I use the pica because it has the fluorescent green and its easy to see when it’s not in the sheath. The sharpener is fine on the end because the leads are messy and it would get my overalls dirty if I didn’t remove to sharpen because that’s where I keep it. Pica is also the most durable writing tool I’ve used. I keep an extra just in case

I'm not going to lie, I thought the tests were a bit silly at first, until you did the drywall one and showed a noticeable difference. Interesting. I have the Pica and just ordered the Ox to try another one out, plus i like that its square so when im doing joist layout on top plates it wont roll off if i set it down.

Thank you for making this video ypu saved a fellow electrician time and money by helping me choose the right one

Do they both take the same size and style of carbon

Personally I use the Ox and Rite in the Rain 1.3mm pencils. These two pencils are indispensable when it comes to my job and I strongly recommend anyone who cares about their work enough to buy their own supplies go out and get these because you won’t regret it and you can thank me later.

I am probably not going to sharpen my Ox pencil while it's mounted on the bag anyway. It's pretty powdery messy.

Man, that sharpener location is really neat. I have the Pica and that annoys me about it all the time.

This video has nothing to do with the pencil itself in reality your comparing the leads of the pencils of each of the brands and how they well they mark on different surfaces which in reality doesn't matter which brand of pencil they are in. Pica dixon ox hiboom etc they all take 2.8mm refills so technically it's more of which style lead holder you like and which brand of refills to use after all just because you have pica or dixon or whatever doesn't mean you can't use an off brand refill in it......I'd stay away from Amazon and the cheap Chinese crap but if you can get say 10 ox refills for the same price as 5 pica refills for your pica brand pencil why wouldn't you do it....it's no different than using a Dewalt bit set in a milwaukee drill it still gets the job done. With that being said I recommend a durability test of the pencils as well as long term functionality in "real world" conditions drop them in water or saw dust throw them to the floor etc anything to simulate what may actually happen to these pencils other than just in a woodshop or marking electrical boxes after all they have more than one application metals, brick/stone, tile, wood, foam board, glass, paper, pvc, etc. I mean I've used lumber crayons to mark ductwork sheet metal because it's the only thing that showed up on them visibly enough from the distance the same with children's sidewalk chalk go grab a box from Walmart different colors on the cheap and watch it fade away over time

I had my pica for a few months, the clip ended up getting loose and it fell out of my pocket. After i lost it I just picked up an ox at my local lowes which is a plus for me that its available in stores.

I like the pica because you can re insert it easy as opposed to the ox square body. I have both pica was my first the decided to give ox a try.

one of the things that the ox drives me insane is when I have trouble putting it back in its holder when I have it clipped in my shirt pocket. What happens is that the OX has a big hole on the side of the holder, so the pencil always seem to get caught in that hole.

for anyone who still deciding go with the pica i purchase both and de ox broke within 2 weeks do to the cup it gets sand and dust and eventually stops working the pico has an umbrella cup

How do we load the lead? It sticks way out. Weird.

Are you kidding me! The best pencil is the ones the supplier gives me for free…..

Does the pica lead fit in the ox? The Pica seems darker and more matte

Great review man

What kind of bag was that where you stored your tools?

I keep my pica on the outside of my pouch so it sharpens just as easy

I recently bought the ox pencil and after about a week the clicker just stopped working. Couldn't get it with work so just snapped it in half and to the trash it went.

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do you play warhammer?

Nope, the Pica is much better quality

Looks like the pica did better on all but the drywall, in the video any ways. But my carpenter pencils is probably much cheaper and when you loose it or someone takes it you don’t feel as bad. At the end of the day just get to work, no one cares about a pencils.

Your biased. But good video.

Ox is just as good for 10 dollars cheaper I have both

Picas sharpener plugs up with crap

I use the pica because it has the fluorescent green and its easy to see when it’s not in the sheath. The sharpener is fine on the end because the leads are messy and it would get my overalls dirty if I didn’t remove to sharpen because that’s where I keep it. Pica is also the most durable writing tool I’ve used. I keep an extra just in case