24 Color Chalk Pastel Pencils in Tin Box — Natural Cedar

This set exists for buyers whose customers choose a pastel pencil the way they choose a brush: by feel, by weight, and by how the object sits in the hand. Cedar is the wood the artist grade was built on, and it still reads that way on a shelf. A 24-color set in a natural-finish barrel and a metal tin is positioned for art supply retail, museum and gallery shops, and gift programs where an unlacquered barrel and a keepsake case carry more value than the lowest possible landed cost.

Cedar earns that position on three properties a buyer can check in a sample. Sharpening: cedar cuts with very little resistance and holds a clean point around a soft 4mm chalk core, which is the property that decides whether a pastel pencil can be used down to a stub. Grain stability: cedar keeps its shape across humidity swings, so barrels stay straight in storage and the 4mm core stays centered — the single biggest cause of sharpening breakage. Scent: cedar carries a distinct natural wood smell that lacquered or treated barrels do not, and in a closed tin that scent is the first thing the end user notices when the lid comes off. For a product sold on sensory appeal, that is a feature rather than decoration.

The barrels are left unlacquered so the grain stays visible, with color identification handled by an end dip: the tail of each pencil is dipped in the matching pastel color. That keeps the natural look of the wood intact while giving the end user an obvious way to pull a color from the tin without lifting every pencil out. The tin protects soft chalk cores in transit and in a bag, and it keeps the set presentable after first use — the format art buyers keep on the shelf instead of in a drawer.

Cedar is the traditional premium pencil wood and typically costs two to three times basswood, which places this line in artist and gift programs rather than school-volume tenders; the species comparison is in our basswood vs poplar vs cedar guide. Barrels are kiln-dried to 8–12% moisture content and cut to 17.6cm with a 7.5mm diameter. Every order ships with FSC Chain-of-Custody documentation (Chain-of-Custody code ESTS-COC-251233, verifiable at info.fsc.org) covering the wood sourcing, CE marking with EN71-3 heavy-metal testing, REACH SVHC screening, and ISO 9001:2015 quality management. The MOQ is a 2,000-set minimum, with a 30–35 day production lead time. OEM covers tin artwork and lid print, palette selection, and barrel or dip color changes; test documentation can be reviewed at certifications before you commit to a sample.

Samples and tin mock-ups are available for retail review. Contact our export team with your target market and required color count.