What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[dunhamsa]

Pilot Automac .5 (pentel 4B lead).

[lovemy51]

O'bon wood recycled newspaper casing 2B graphite pencil.

[paolino_paperino]

Vintage Aurora 88 with 1.18mm leads. I was lucky enough to find a small cache of vintage Autopoint 24 lead packs at a local flea market, for a few euros :-)

[chiaroscuro]

Hello everybody,

I like writing with pencils. Presently I am writing with Staedtler 925 25 and Uni Kuru Toga. It will be nice to know about your favourite pencils and, in the meantime, gain some expert opinions about mechanical pencils.

Nice! I've got both and I'm obsessed with the 925 for drawing. I used my Graphgear 1000 with AIN Stein 3B today, and the pencil in my Tombow 414.

 

[sidenote: I'm considering a Hex-o-matic for my first 0.7 pencil. Does anyone have one, and, if so, what's the verdict?]

[chiaroscuro]

The only pencil I've handled today was a Blackwing 602, but I gazed affectionately at a Rhodia several times.

I can't believe my good fortune in finding a bunch of people like me who "gaze affectionately at" or otherwise have similar emotional responses/attachments to their writing instruments. I'm not alone!

PS - I like my Rhodia pencil, and often think about using it, but triangular barrels are near deal-breakers for me. If only it were hexagonal or rounded...

[konis]

Waterman Preface.

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regards

[Tom Aquinas]

First generation Gold filled Sonnet .5 Mont Blanc HB lead

[konis]

Waterman 3V.

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regards

[Tom Aquinas]

1950s Conway Stewart (the thick HB lead is good to graphite the stems of my briar pipes)

[XiaoMG]

Uni Penmanship 4B and Tombow Mono 100 HB. The former is the smoothest wooden writing pencil available, and the latter is a great high-quality workhorse.

[chiaroscuro]

Uni Penmanship 4B and Tombow Mono 100 HB. The former is the smoothest wooden writing pencil available, and the latter is a great high-quality workhorse.

How is the wood on the Mono 100s? I have the Mono Professionals and I found the wood to be very "crumbly" (maybe because I tried them alongside the Irojiten colored pencils. The wood on those is out of this world. No matter how long you sharpen, the shaving is 100% continuous -- a perfect ribbon). Everything else about them I like, and I take it that the 100s should be equal or better on all counts.

[johniem]

For years I have carried a Rotring 4-in-1 (don't remember the model number) in my planner/journal. The red ball point has been replace with a stylus point. I use the pencil enter to schedules in the calendar. You know how that goes. Schedule an event for Saturday and get a call that the actual date is Monday. I also have a long eraser. The stylus is now used to remove batteries from my hearing aids when it's time to replace them! All attempts to replace the four-in-one with anything else have been met with frustration.

Edited October 14, 2012 by johniem

[svfd757]

Pentel twist erase. I haven't dove into the specialty pencil market yet

[XiaoMG]

How is the wood on the Mono 100s? I have the Mono Professionals and I found the wood to be very "crumbly" (maybe because I tried them alongside the Irojiten colored pencils. The wood on those is out of this world. No matter how long you sharpen, the shaving is 100% continuous -- a perfect ribbon). Everything else about them I like, and I take it that the 100s should be equal or better on all counts.

To be totally honest, I'm not sure. I've always found the pocket blade-based sharpeners like the KUM Long Point to be rubbish, and by the time I started accumulating Mono 100s, I had gone completely to Japanese rotary sharpening and knife sharpening. However, the wood for the Mono 100 should be the highest quality. It shaves nicely with a knife, and looks very clean after a few turns in a rotary sharpener.

[PAKMAN]

Kaweco clutch pencil

[Chthulhu]

A somewhat battered Eversharp Coronet with some old 1.1 mm Autopoint B/Soft leads. It's become my daily carry lately.

[P.A.R.]

My one and only: a .5mm Pentel Kerry Mechanical Pencil. I don't use it often, but I quite like the weight, size, and fixed lead sleeve/pencil cap combo. I'm using Pentel 2B lead in it right now.

[Freddy]

A yellow Ticonderoga #2.... ..

 

Fred

need me a shot of that triple juice..

[konis]

Kaweco Elite 820.

http://images10.fotosik.pl/2736/f444a4fe3f09a275.jpg

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regards

[lovemy51]

blue p51, 0.9mm 2b lead -i've been using it all week.