What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[watch_art]

Staedtler and Rotring, but made in Japan...

 

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Ooooh I like. Where can I get that Rotring?

[a m a r g o]

 

Ooooh I like. Where can I get that Rotring?

 

www.pencils.jp

 

I think they're the english counterpart of www.bundoki.com... They do not keep the same catalog in both stores, and the one from pencils.jp is smaller, but don't mind that at all.

 

I've become a fan!

 

They first check their inventory and send you an invoice with shipping costs added to the sum after they acknowledge that you made an order... Sometimes comunication is dodgie, but I'm a very happy customer indeed.

 

Oh, I forgot to tell that you have to search for products browsing from the tags of type of product you're looking for and not the brand tags, they aren't assigned to all the products they offer from a particular brand.

Edited December 5, 2014 by coppilcus

[pgmrdan]

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

 

I use Zebra F-701 ballpoints and have been looking around lately for Zebra M-701 mechanical pencils. How do you like the M-701?

[Bhavna]

Waterman Carene orange with GT, 0.7. I love it!!

[flatline]

A Kimberly 2B made by General Pencil Co.

 

Of the wooden pencils locally available, it's probably my favorite.

 

(the local selection isn't much to my liking, but I can't bring myself to buy a dozen Hi-Uni's from jetpens just yet)

 

--flatline

Edited December 7, 2014 by flatline

[a m a r g o]

Staedtler 925 - 35, with 2B lead also from Staedtler.

 

... and that's pretty much the only brand aveilable for 2mm leads in Mexico, they're fine but doesn't put a smile on my face.

 

I've used the leads from Caran d'Ache and Rotring that comes with the lead holders, but unfortunately they do not come graded and I like much more the Rotring leads so far...

[fullfederhalter]

My "go to" pencil is a vintage oversize Autopoint with 1.1mm lead.

[Chthulhu]

A chrome "thin lead" (0.9 mm) Dur-O-Matic repeater with 2B leads.

[a m a r g o]

A chrome "thin lead" (0.9 mm) Dur-O-Matic repeater with 2B leads.

 

Could you post a picture? I've heard they are a bit of mechanical pencil history!

[Chthulhu]

 

Could you post a picture? I've heard they are a bit of mechanical pencil history!

Certainly! It's the pencil on the right in this image:

[jar]

A "Win with Wilkie" mechanical pencil.

[a m a r g o]

Lamy 2000 0.5mm and Rotring 600 0,5mm and 0.35mm...

 

 

[Lloyd]

This Shawn Newton 5.6mm leadholder with Cretacolor Nero (oil based charcoal-darker than graphite, non-smearing, non-erasable, smooth as crayon).

[flatline]

This Shawn Newton 5.6mm leadholder with Cretacolor Nero (oil based charcoal-darker than graphite, non-smearing, non-erasable, smooth as crayon).

 

So is that like the pencil equivalent of a Sharpie marker?

 

--flatline

[Lloyd]

 

So is that like the pencil equivalent of a Sharpie marker?

 

--flatline

Nah. The Nero only writes on materials that standard leads write on (paper, cardboard,...).

Edited December 29, 2014 by Lloyd

[randomist]

Staedtler Mars Micro 0.5mm an Pentel 120 A3 DX 0.9mm. Mostly because they were what was available in those sizes at the time. I was taught to use those sizes for technical drawing, which I only ever need to do freehand, everything else is CAD now. The Mars is holding up better than Pentel's offering.

[flatline]

Staedtler Mars Micro 0.5mm an Pentel 120 A3 DX 0.9mm. Mostly because they were what was available in those sizes at the time. I was taught to use those sizes for technical drawing, which I only ever need to do freehand, everything else is CAD now. The Mars is holding up better than Pentel's offering.

 

I've got a Pentel 120 A3 DX 0.3mm that I used all through school and still use some today. The only noticeable wear is that the rubber grip has hardened over the years from age and finger grease. It's still one of my favorite pencils.

 

What's wearing out on yours?

 

--flatline

[DaveBj]

 

I've got a Pentel 120 A3 DX 0.3mm that I used all through school and still use some today. The only noticeable wear is that the rubber grip has hardened over the years from age and finger grease. It's still one of my favorite pencils.

 

What's wearing out on yours?

 

--flatline

 

I've had the lead advancing mechanism give up the ghost on more than one pencil through the years.

[______Zaphod_Beeblebrox]

Faber-Castell 9000 7B pencil

[vinper]

Yard O Led Regent, my Christmas present this year--outstanding! vinper