Pencil (Fallout 4)

The pencil is a junk item in Fallout 4 and Fallout 76.

Characteristics
An orange pencil with a pink eraser. It is identical in size to the reporter's pencil, However it is hexagonal and orange instead of cylindrical and brown.

Crafting
The pencil can be broken down into its individual components for use in crafting:

The pencil can also be used to craft endangerol syringes at a chemistry stations.

Fallout 4
Pencils can often be found in the following circumstances:
 * Sold by vendors.
 * Sometimes found on the corpse of feral ghouls.
 * Inside or around desks, near terminals, or clipboards.
 * As a random collectible from a Vault-Tec lunchbox.
 * As a random collectible from a Nuka-Cola lunchbox.

Some pencils can also be found in the following fixed locations:
 * 4 pencils can be found on the table in the Railroad HQ.
 * 2 in the Cambridge Polymer Labs.

Fallout 76

 * Dropped sometimes by feral ghouls.

Behind the scenes
The "lead" in real pencils is made with graphite, which was originally believed to be a variant of lead and was historically referred to as "plumbago" (Latin: lead ore) or "black lead." Pencils have never been made with actual lead.