What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[Mill_Burray]

I prefer 2mm lead holders. What I like about them is that you can have a very sharp, fine point or a soft, broad point. In that regard, they are similar to a wood pencil, but have the convenience of more modern mechanical pencils. My favorite pencil has always been the Staedtler Mars Technico 780 C. I bought mine in 1999. I've used it everyday since and it still works like new. It has a built in sharpener that I only recently discovered. I just bought a E+M X-change in oak. The wood feels nice. I loaded some 2mm red lead in it. So far so good.

Edited August 16, 2012 by Mill_Burray

[Mill_Burray]

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This remins me; I was gonna order a larger e+m clutch pencil.. Doh!! *facepalms*

 

I like those. My only gripe is the length requires you to break the lead to fit.

[Tom Aquinas]

My old stainless steel flighter with Parker .5 HB lead

[UncleJoe420]

Well, today I'm torn between my Midori Brass pencil, and my new e+m and Wörther clutch pencils (which arrived today, courtesy of Cult Pens)... So hard to pick just one..

[Tom Aquinas]

Staedtler Tradition HB

[ThirdeYe]

Pentel Twist-Erase QE405 with Pentel HB 0.5 lead.

[lovemy51]

blue P51 with 0.9mm 2B lead.

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I actually did use a pencil this morning, noting down that we were out of Cheerios, and this evening, noting down some measurements while baking a test batch of cookies. A PaperMate "Sharpwriter."

[inkstainedruth]

Berol Turquoise leadholder. I think it's got 2H lead in it.

Some century I might have to actually go to an art store and *buy* another container of leads, but I'm pretty sure I still have some -- I think this package has lasted at least a decade....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Tom Aquinas]

1st generation Gold Plated Parker Sonnet, with .5 Mont Blanc HB Leads

[hbquikcomjamesl]

All this talk of pencils reminds me of a comic relief entry in the glossary of Joan Hughes' classic programming text, PL/I Structured Programming:

 

optimist: a programmer who codes in ink

 

I code in ink.

[lovemy51]

vintage Viceroy. brown striped celluloid pencil from the 30's -1.1mm, B soft lead.

[Avalonia]

Pink Sun Star W Knock Sharp mechanical pencil with .5 B Pentel STEIN lead.

 

(After the incident yesterday with most of my papers that had ink written on them getting soaked - due to me knocking over my water bottle, of course - I realised that maybe using pencil at work was a smart thing. )

[lovemy51]

classic meisterstuck MB, 0.5mm HB lead

[Tom Aquinas]

MB 144 with MB .5 HB lead. Lovely writing instrument

 

 

 

EDIT....worried about the accumulated number of my post 666 ...and I was going to watch Gregory Peck in "Omen" tonight !! I think I will need to resort to strong medicine...Peter Sellars and David Niven in "The Pink Panther" .

Edited September 8, 2012 by Tom Aquinas

[Markk]

Man 100 with Super 6 nib Fine and flexible inked in Waterman SSB.

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Is this the equivalent of trolling in a mechanical pencil thread?

 

I have a Tetis MP which I'm not too fond of. Looks great though and the mechanism works great too, spring-loaded clip, but alas, not comfortable for me in longer writing sessions.

 

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Today I got a Jotter MP to try out. So far I'm liking it. Previous pencils have been a Tikky 1.0, Pentel TechniclickG 0.5, and a Papermate Widemate 0.5. I seem to have misplaced a Faber-Castell 0.7 somewhere.

 

I occasionally play around with a 1.3mm Milan RGV.

[Tom Aquinas]

A Staedtler "Tradition" HB

[konis]

As the old directory :

Kaweco Dia 128.

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regards

[Plume145]

blackwing 602, sharpened with a long-point

[Tom Aquinas]

Edit: MB 144 .5 HB lead

Edited September 28, 2012 by Tom Aquinas