I was looking for a bunch of cheap hexagonal pencils for some modular sculpture that I wanted to make which looks pretty cool and fun to make. youtube link to tutorial and the video links to the US Amazon store which has the 72 required pencils for approximate $11AUD from the staples store but unfortunately they don't ship to Australia. no biggie, I'll just buy them from the staples store in Australia.
Closest thing I could find was this which is $13 for 12 pencils. And I wasn't gonna drop $78 on pencils which should be around $11.
The buckets of pencils turn out to be the most economic pencils with the Staedtler 100 HB pencil bucket for around $30 but it doesn't come with the little rubber on the end which I would have enjoyed on my sculpture.
Would anyone know where in Sydney I might be able to find a more economic purchase of pencils for my project? Ideally I would have around 80 pencils. so 4 packs of 20 or 7 packs of 12. 100 is really pushing it for my pencil needs. unless you guys could suggest alternative fun uses for pencils like the modular sculpture I linked haha
tl;dr
72 cheap pencils please. any ideas on where to get them?
Best I could find:
http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/columbia-ca… + 12x http://www.officeworks.com.au/shop/officeworks/p/columbia-ca… = $28
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Bulk-200-Pack-HB-Lead-Pencils-/18… (200 for $40, pretty overkill. $36 using 10% off code)