What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[Bhavna]

My newest 'baby' Waterman Carene Coral Red 0.7, followed closely by the Sheaffer Gold plated Prelude 0.7, also various very slim and sexy Parkers (I can't remember their names!) However, I do prefer the thinner leads as opposed to very thick ones as I have very fine writing (small and cursive!).

Edited April 18, 2012 by Bhavna

[gwilliams]

I am using a vintage sheaffer model 350 mechanical pencil which uses .9 mm lead. It does work very well for its age.

[Tom Aquinas]

Early model Sonnet with Sailor Jentle Blue/Black.

 

best wishes

Tom Aquinas

[Eduardo]

 

congrats! i have an Eclipse gold plated that stopped working and don't even know how to take it appart!!

 

do you have any idea how to proceed?

 

muito obrigado!

 

The best way to fix a twist action is at first UNDERSTAND the system. This site: http://www.restorersart.com/2010/10/17/restoring-a-parker-duofold-pencil/ shows several pictures that will help to understand the movement.

 

Take a reading and don't hesitate to make questions. I'll try to help you.

 

 

[]'s Eduardo

[Tdot]

Early model Sonnet with Sailor Jentle Blue/Black.

Boy, that's a fancy pencil. Mine only use lead.

[Bhavna]

I love pencils!

 

Currently carrying a Waterman Carène 0.7mm propelling pencil in Coral, a Faber Castell 1.4mm kids' propelling pencil, and my gardening pencil, the Kaweco Alu-Ei 3.2mm clutch pencil.

 

Favourites? that Faber Castell kids' propelling pencil, Conway Stewart Nippy, Sheaffer Intrigue, Waterman Carène and Exception, Parker 45 and Frontier, Staedtler Graphite 925 25-20, Pentel Graphgear 1000 0.9mm, and a couple of old-style Rotring pencils: the pocket-friendly 600 0.7mm and the Esprit telescopic 0.7mm. I've got a lovely Wearever stripey marble one on my desk I like very much; no idea what model it is. And I like the Sheaffer Imperial-sized pencils with their 0.9mm leads. A change is as good as a rest...

 

Least favourite pencil I own would have to be the Faber Castell e-motion; shape and weight don't feel right for me.

 

I like to think there's a special room in hell for the people who manufacture those pound-shop woodcase pencils with leads which are either broken, or so loose that they push right out of the woodcase! :bonk:

 

+1 Waterman Carene 0.7 Coral... 'Tis a small woild!

Also Parker Urban and Waterman Expert Dune 0.7! The Sheaffer 500 pencil is beautiful also! I admit also to owning a twig reputedly from an Oak IN Sherwood forest with a piece of lead attached... It's unique, huge and I love it!

 

Impossiblebird - ya the room will be hopefully filled with all the broken leads we have had to deal with!!

 

Bhavna x

Edited April 18, 2012 by Bhavna

[lovemy51]

 

congrats! i have an Eclipse gold plated that stopped working and don't even know how to take it appart!!

 

do you have any idea how to proceed?

 

muito obrigado!

 

The best way to fix a twist action is at first UNDERSTAND the system. This site: http://www.restorersart.com/2010/10/17/restoring-a-parker-duofold-pencil/ shows several pictures that will help to understand the movement.

 

Take a reading and don't hesitate to make questions. I'll try to help you.

 

 

[]'s Eduardo

thanx for the link. i'll check it out. mine may be a little different and my main problem is that i can't figure out how to disassemble the pen.

[lovemy51]

today: P-Jotter, which i ended up giving away to a friend and had to order another today... :embarrassed_smile:

[Tom Aquinas]

Early model Sonnet with Sailor Jentle Blue/Black.

Boy, that's a fancy pencil. Mine only use lead.

 

 

Point taken, it was an early model Sonnet with MB lead, and I'm using it today, a beauty. I was using the matching F/P as well.

 

best wishes

Tom AQuinas

[Eduardo]

 

The best way to fix a twist action is at first UNDERSTAND the system. This site: http://www.restorersart.com/2010/10/17/restoring-a-parker-duofold-pencil/ shows several pictures that will help to understand the movement.

 

Take a reading and don't hesitate to make questions. I'll try to help you.

 

 

[]'s Eduardo

thanx for the link. i'll check it out. mine may be a little different and my main problem is that i can't figure out how to disassemble the pen.

 

Almost all twist action pencils have a tube that work as a "reserve tank". The spare leads are stocked between this tube and the inner helicoid tube. The first step is remove this external tube. In the Parker models, this tube is press fitted. I remove it heating the tube with a soldering iron and cooling the base with ice.

 

I don't know what is your case, but some pictures may help to understand...

[Mags]

I am using two pencils. One typically is a faber-castell B lead and one of the new large and squared moleskine pencils both require sharpening and I have plastic covers for both also.

[lovemy51]

 

The best way to fix a twist action is at first UNDERSTAND the system. This site: http://www.restorersart.com/2010/10/17/restoring-a-parker-duofold-pencil/ shows several pictures that will help to understand the movement.

 

Take a reading and don't hesitate to make questions. I'll try to help you.

 

 

[]'s Eduardo

thanx for the link. i'll check it out. mine may be a little different and my main problem is that i can't figure out how to disassemble the pen.

 

Almost all twist action pencils have a tube that work as a "reserve tank". The spare leads are stocked between this tube and the inner helicoid tube. The first step is remove this external tube. In the Parker models, this tube is press fitted. I remove it heating the tube with a soldering iron and cooling the base with ice.

 

I don't know what is your case, but some pictures may help to understand...

[impossiblebird]

 

Currently carrying a Waterman Carène 0.7mm propelling pencil in Coral...

 

+1 Waterman Carene 0.7 Coral... 'Tis a small woild! ...

 

Bhavna x

[inkstainedruth]

Berol Turquoise lead holder.

Had to make rough diagrams of the wiring (outlets and switches) in the rooms at my late brother-in-law's. Did the layout in pencil on graph paper, and then pulled out the trusty FP once I had mostly gotten the locations (rooms definitely not to scale, though....)

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[Tom Aquinas]

Parker Ciselle Insignia with MB .05, to back up my Lamy 2000.

 

best wishes

 

Tom Aquinas :meow:

[lovemy51]

today: weaever in grey color i just got in the post...

 

http://i338.photobucket.com/albums/n419/peterpaul_rguez/KGrHqZhE9onJjYqiBPgzEwpOGw60_57.jpg

[lovemy51]

still using the wearever pennant pencil

[Eduardo]

 

Almost all twist action pencils have a tube that work as a "reserve tank". The spare leads are stocked between this tube and the inner helicoid tube. The first step is remove this external tube. In the Parker models, this tube is press fitted. I remove it heating the tube with a soldering iron and cooling the base with ice.

 

I don't know what is your case, but some pictures may help to understand...

 

Do you try to remove the nose cone? The inner tube may be removed?

[ChipHo]

I do use pencils for writing (copious) notes, but mostly for drawing my ideas for items I want to build. My Pentel GRAPH 1000 0.5mm has been around me for over 20 years and still feels like new; also I use a new-ish Pentel 120 A3 DX 0.3mm...carefully!

[lovemy51]

 

Almost all twist action pencils have a tube that work as a "reserve tank". The spare leads are stocked between this tube and the inner helicoid tube. The first step is remove this external tube. In the Parker models, this tube is press fitted. I remove it heating the tube with a soldering iron and cooling the base with ice.

 

I don't know what is your case, but some pictures may help to understand...

 

Do you try to remove the nose cone? The inner tube may be removed?

the nose cone is inside the body/casing. under the eraser cap one can see the reservoir for the extra lead, but isn't coming out. it appears to be made of brass or copper and i'm afraid to damage it if i continue to try to take it out.

 

any ideas? :embarrassed_smile: