What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[2feetplanted]

Pelikan 400 brown tortoise

[A-xy]

Just started using a new Blackwing Eras pencil today

[flatline]

Where do you find Musgrave pencils? Are they only available through the Musgrave website?

[NumberSix]

Where do you find Musgrave pencils? Are they only available through the Musgrave website?

 

You can buy individual Musgraves at CW Pencils.

 

https://cwpencils.com/collections/musgrave

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Four Mitsubishi Hi Unis, 2B, 4B, 6B, and a little 10B.

[NumberSix]

I received this red Parker 21 mark II pencil a month or two ago, as part of a matched set with a P21 pen.

 

This is a great pencil. It’s about 5” long. There’s an eraser if you remove the silver cap, but of course it does not work after 50+ years. I loaded it up with this excellent Pentel 2B.

 

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Vintage Eagle 314 draughting pencil.

[sciumbasci]

As much as I love mechanical pencils, and after extensive use of a Tikky II in 0.5,i must admit that it is not for me. Perhaps I press too hard, perhaps I am used to wider leads, perhaps lead hardness has something to do with it, but I simply cannot write without having lead breakage. Into the drawer it goes, never to see sunlight again.

[JosephKing]

Double post

Edited August 13, 2020 by JosephKing

[JosephKing]

...Perhaps I press too hard, perhaps I am used to wider leads...

If lead strength is your only issue, look up: pencil lead holder. You can learn from a search on the web, how to reuse the leads from your old pencils.

[katerchen]

Just started using a new Blackwing Eras pencil today

 

 

Missed out on that

 

I thought it was OK to wait a couple of weeks -- never used to be a problem with Volumes -- and when I sat down to order a box it was all sold out.

 

Critically thinking I know that I already have the same graphite in others, but emotionally it's not the same.

 

-k

[flatline]

I bought a box of Blackwing 602 several years ago. I think I've got 5 left, maybe 3 unsharpened. All you guys who buy multiple boxes...how will you ever use them up?

[pajaro]

Esterbrook copper J pencil. Cap actuated. Not bad. Looks like a 0.9 lead.

[A-xy]

 

 

Missed out on that

 

I thought it was OK to wait a couple of weeks -- never used to be a problem with Volumes -- and when I sat down to order a box it was all sold out.

 

Critically thinking I know that I already have the same graphite in others, but emotionally it's not the same.

 

-k

 

I just looked, and they are sold out everywhere it seems. That was quick!

 

They are aesthetically some of the nicest Blackwing pencils, but I think they have the same core as the natural. So yeah, emotions is what keeps me buying...

[A-xy]

I bought a box of Blackwing 602 several years ago. I think I've got 5 left, maybe 3 unsharpened. All you guys who buy multiple boxes...how will you ever use them up?

Honestly, I don’t think I ever will. I’ve ended up with several boxes over the years...if I think about it, it just happened.

[A-xy]

Midori MD Pencil

[Inkyways]

Rotring 600 .5 pencil

Pental - Graph gear 0.3/ 0.5

[Zookie]

Today I've been using a black Staedtler norica Hb. Very nice pencils.

Edited August 16, 2020 by Zookie

[ISW_Kaputnik]

I'll be using other pencils later, but I jotted some notes with this Wearever. Wearever had a reputation for some fairly low end "third tier" fountain pens, and not all of their mechanical pencils were much better, but they got it right with this one, apparently a copy of the classic Scriptos. Uses a 0.046 inch lead (1.17 mm).

Edited August 17, 2020 by ISW_Kaputnik

[AmandaW]

Daiso 2mm loaded with 2B lead