What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[Chthulhu]

Today's pencil is a white Esterbook J.

[shudaizi]

Same as most days: Lamy 2000 MP, Rotring 600 (retractable sleeve), and TWSBI (retractable sleeve, chrome) -- all 0.7mm.

[ISW_Kaputnik]

The only one I had with me just happened to be in my laptop case; I'd forgotten to put one in my pocket. Scripto 1.1 mm, similar to the U.S. Government Skilcraft ones that military people may remember.

[a m a r g o]

Lamy Scribble 0.7mm 2b lead, Safari 0.5mm hb lead...

 

[Chthulhu]

Palomino Blackwing 602. :-)

[watch_art]

I was disappointed with the plastic uni kuri-toga. maybe the metal bodied model is better?

 

I was also disappointed with the Lamy Safari .5 pencil. Clicking once or twice might push out 1mm of lead, or 15mm of lead. Terrible.

 

I love my Faber Castell TK Fine Vario L (whatever that means). Feels great in the hand and comes in .9 which is a huge plus for me.

 

I also (surprisingly) love my Rotring 6 sided pencil. All metal, about the same size as a #2 wood case pencil (but shorter), and works perfectly. I LOVE it. One of my new favorites. Of course I'm never done looking for new really cool and comfy pencils to add to the collection.

[JefferyS]

In a world of annoying cell phone ringing, my younger colleagues seem to have focused on my electric pencil sharpener as the worst noise imaginable. So I am trying mechanical pencils with fat leads. The weight of it is putting me off. Like a watercolor brush made with plastic instead of wood.

[dag71]

My typical EDC: Stainless Steel Parker Jotter .5mm with a Zebra M701 .7mm as a backup.

[Inkydinkydog]

Palomino Blackwing

[dunhamsa]

Staedtler Rally #2 HB. A plain, old wooden pencil.

[a m a r g o]

Lamy 2000 0.7mm lead B grade, Faber Castell E-Motion 1.4mm Lamy lead B grade (supposedly B grade...):

[Eduardo]

Sheaffer Statesman 0.9 mm

[penrivers]

Staedtler Rally #2 HB. A plain, old wooden pencil.

1210/B 2 Eco Faber Castell wood pencil.

[lovemy51]

autopoint round body (white barrel-brown tip) with .9mm 2B lead.

Edited January 13, 2014 by lovemy51

[watch_art]

I'm trying really hard not to buy a Parker Urban pencil. It just looks so cool though! And I could keep the ballpoint at school to write on the multi layer discipline forms at school.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Parker-Silver-Ballpoint-Mechanical-Pencil/dp/B002KHAW2W/ref=sr_1_1?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1389616916&sr=1-1&keywords=parker+urban+ballpoint+and+pencil

[a m a r g o]

Caran d'Ache fixpencil 3mm lead 3b grade, Lamy Al-star 0.5mm lead...

[Moshe ben David]

This thread is great! I'd second the motion to clone off a MPN -- maybe lead by Dave of Dave's Mechanical Pencils?

 

All of my fountain pens live in 'sets' which naturally include a mechanical pencil. When possible, I include the MP that matches with the FP. I also have a couple of MP which are not in sets...

 

In terms of my favorites. I prefer thicker rather than thinner leads. I also prefer the older propelling mechanisms rather than the modern twist or click mechanisms. My favorites are:

 

1. Parker Duofold propelling mechanism, Parker 0.9 leads; from the 90's
2. Retro 51 propelling mechanism, either the original 0.9 lead or the newer 1.15 lead.
3. F-C E-motion, using F-C 1.4 B lead (this one sits on my home office desk at all times; very convenient for impromptu notes of all sorts)
4. Pentel P209, using Pentel 0.9 HB lead
5. Pentel Graphgear 1000 using Pentel 0.7 H lead

[lovemy51]

autopoint dual point -red/blue .9mm and green/graphite .9mm and .5mm -respectively.

[Vgimlet]

Right now I have a Papermate mechanical pencil and I have no idea where I got it (gift?) with a .7 lead, which is odd, since I mostly have Pentel mechanical pencils with the side-click and .5 lead.

 

I generally prefer mechanical pencils to wood.

[a m a r g o]

Caran D'Ache 844 0.7mm lead HB grade, Worther Slight 1.18mm lead supposedly HB grade: