What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[Cynergy]

These for today...

 

[Tasmith]

Pilot S20 .5mm mechanical pencil with 2B leads

[flatline]

Pilot S20 .5mm mechanical pencil with 2B leads

 

Is the s20 balanced the same as the s10? One of the reasons I like the s10 so much is because it is bottom-heavy.

 

--flatline

[Tasmith]

 

Is the s20 balanced the same as the s10? One of the reasons I like the s10 so much is because it is bottom-heavy.

 

--flatline

That I don't know as I've never held the S10. The wooden bodied S20 has a nice comfortable subtle hour glass shaped section and is well balanced with a bit more weight toward the tip.

[pkotrcka]

This one :-)

 

 

[flatline]

I've been using a bunch of pencils lately just to use them up. But today I pulled, quite by accident, a Staedtler Mars Lumograph HB out of my pouch and as soon as I started writing with it I thought "Oh my god! Why am I wasting my life with these other pencils?"

 

I have a similar experience any time I pull out a Hi-Uni pencil.

[oojiamhua]

Pentel Graphgear 500 ftw!!

[a m a r g o]

Finally I could acquire the entire Pentel Sharp line up... I'm enjoying quite a lot the lead included in every drafting pencil, supposedly it's HB lead grade, but I couldn't be so sure in the P203, maybe it's more of a H grade...

 

A marvellous instrument indeed!

 

Edited May 22, 2016 by coppilcus

[Cynergy]

[flatline]

A "graphite force" pencil by "Unison" (?) that I found on the ground. The lead is nice and smooth. I'm always surprised at how good a "cheap" pencil can be compared to my childhood.

 

--flatline

[sandy101]

Unison is the name of a Union in the UK.

[Cynergy]

[fatswimmies]

I usually use Staedtler wooden pencils (the blue and black ones) in the 2B-4B range for drawing. Been jotting down some lists today with a General's Cedar Pointe #2/HB. Raw cedar wood, made in the USA, good quality black eraser and black ferrule looks sharp. Smells good too.

 

http://i0.wp.com/penpaperpencil.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Generals-Cedar-Pointe-pencil-full-length.jpg

[Cynergy]

[flatline]

I usually use Staedtler wooden pencils (the blue and black ones) in the 2B-4B range for drawing. Been jotting down some lists today with a General's Cedar Pointe #2/HB. Raw cedar wood, made in the USA, good quality black eraser and black ferrule looks sharp. Smells good too.

 

http://i0.wp.com/penpaperpencil.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Generals-Cedar-Pointe-pencil-full-length.jpg

 

I'm probably done buying wooden pencils for a while (have too big a stash to justify buying more), but this pencil is one that I'm still interested in trying. I've got some Kimberly pencils by the same company and the leads are nice but I don't care for the metal end covers.

 

--flatline

[fatswimmies]

 

I'm probably done buying wooden pencils for a while (have too big a stash to justify buying more), but this pencil is one that I'm still interested in trying. I've got some Kimberly pencils by the same company and the leads are nice but I don't care for the metal end covers.

 

--flatline

Yeah, I like General Pencil brand stuff. They make some nice pencils and erasers. The Tri-Tip eraser is nice. This pencil's great because it has an eraser and they're less than $1 each retail.

[flatline]

I got a box of the General's Cedar Pointe #2 pencils (as I threatened to above).

 

The wood looks and feels exactly like the Papermate Natural Americans that I used 20 years ago which, as I understand it, are no longer in production. The lead is a bit nicer, too. All leads were well-centered and sharpened up beautifully. All ferrules were securely fitted. The erasers are marvelous (I normally cut the ferrule and eraser off of pencils that come with them, but in this case, I'll keep them since they're not wobbly and they are great erasers).

 

The lead so far has been smooth and consistent. Nice to write with (but not magical like a Hi-Uni or Lumograph).

 

I'm glad I bought these. These will probably become my regular users, at least for a while.

 

--flatline

[Zookie]

I probably have more pencils than I'll ever use up in my lifetime, just can't seem to find the "right one".

Today I'm using a Berol Cassette CA5 0.5mm.

[Algester]

my current mechanical pencil line up

(whats missing Blackwing pearl and some Hi-Uni pencils)

1 Zebra .5 Tech2Way from Muji

1 Zebra .5 Delguard

1 Tombow .5 Monograph

1 Pentel .2 Orenz

1 Pentel .5 GraphGear 500 from Muji

1 Pentel .3 GraphGear 1000

1 Pentel .5 GraphGear 1000

1 Pentel .7 GraphGear 1000

1 Pilot .5 S20

Edited July 19, 2016 by Algester

[inkstainedruth]

Some random #2 pencil. There's a pencil box kept at the house where the amateur madrigal choir I'm in rehearses, so people can make notes (such as writing in the dynamics the choir director decides on for a piece). Or, in my case, to mark where breath marks and "don't breathe here" notations, and to circle sections where I need to pay careful attention to runs of notes, or pronunciation, etc.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth