Who Else Thinks That A Mechanical Pencil Is The Next-Best Thing To A Fountain Pen?

[Zookie]

I've been going crazy buying mechanical pencils! Please help !!

[Studio97]

I have found clearance deals on packages of 10 to 15 mechanical pencils per blister pack, which are refillable but not such great quality. I donated a box full to students from hurricane destroyed schools. At least I moved part of my hoard of pencils to those who could use them. So I know how it is to go crazy buying them. And I have a huge stock of wood pencils too. Donated a large box of those and I still have hundreds of quality wood pencils. Always bought at huge discounts though.

[MYU]

I've been going crazy buying mechanical pencils! Please help !!

 

Anything interesting or unusual? Maybe vintage/discontinued? Post photos!

[Honeybadgers]

I got a 1mm golf pencil /fountain pen set in jade green celluloid that hasn't aged at all. Semiflex 14k nib and a teeny tiny little lever filler, too.

[1nkulus]

I got a 1mm golf pencil /fountain pen set in jade green celluloid that hasn't aged at all. Semiflex 14k nib and a teeny tiny little lever filler, too.

 

Interesting find.

[Studio97]

It is marked in two places: millers national insurance chicago Il and Illinois Fire Insurance Co Chicago Il. May have been advertising samples. Some days,I am stupid. I could have bought 3 of these at the antique store. They were NIB.

I hope this photo of the pencil will post correctly.

[1nkulus]

Seems in decent condition. The writing still looks crisp.

[Studio97]

Seems in decent condition. The writing still looks crisp.

Old stock but still new in the box.

[1nkulus]

Old stock but still new in the box.

 

[OregonJim]

I've been going crazy buying mechanical pencils! Please help !!

 

If, by help, you mean getting someone to join you in your shopping frenzy, I'm in!

 

I've been collecting mechanicals, wood cased, and lead holders since the mid 1970's! A few in my collection go back to the late 1800's. It's a disease, I think.

[JotterAddict62]

I have about 50 of these Parker pencil mechanisms.

 

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f239/Jotteraddict62/001_zps1htkwttk.jpg

 

But for the life of me I do not know what model of Parker pencils these are for? I do have a number of pencil models but none will

fit any of them. There is that high point in the middle that confuses me. They take a .07mm lead.

 

I would be grateful for any insight on this part.

 

Ken

[Rosendust2121]

I use mechanical pencils, and have since 6th grade-I prefer them to regular wood pencils, however all of my mechanical pencils are disposable.

[AlohaLani787]

I use a mechanical pencil almost every day. It's a chrome Cross, .9 lead, given to me over 30 years ago.

[Bexinthecity247]

I never appreciated mechanical pencils for ages because I always bought those cheap supermarket ones that break all the time. Then I went to Germany last year and I picked up a couple of Faber Castell ones and though they were still less than 10 euros, I love them.

I do a lot of my story plannings in pencil as I tend to change details a lot and it makes it easier and less messy than pen.

[Zookie]

I just ordered a Pentel Graphlet 0.9 and can't wait till it gets here! I could not, however, find many reviews of it. It would interest me to know if anyone has had any experience with this line of pencils. It will be used mostly for drawing.

[galeos]

I just ordered a Pentel Graphlet 0.9 and can't wait till it gets here! I could not, however, find many reviews of it. It would interest me to know if anyone has had any experience with this line of pencils. It will be used mostly for drawing.

 

Its counterpart, the Pentel GraphGear 500, is oddly balanced; with a big metal grip section, it has nearly all its weight towards the writing end. This gives it a much different feeling than other pencils I own. Your Graphlet seems to have a more moderate metal grip section, so maybe it's forward balance won't be so extreme. The lead grade indicator could be really helpful if you buy several and load them up with different lead hardness (this could be helpful for your drawing). Keep us posted on how you like it!

[1nkulus]

I just ordered a Pentel Graphlet 0.9 and can't wait till it gets here! I could not, however, find many reviews of it. It would interest me to know if anyone has had any experience with this line of pencils. It will be used mostly for drawing.

 

How did you get along?

 

You can also try Graph Gear 1000, Staedtler 925-25/925-35 both available in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9

Rotring 600 (0.5, 0.7)

[sansenri]

I posted this in another thread about pencils but I think it deserves to be here.

I have this pencil since a while but had not found opportunity to take a photo yet, since yesterday.

Here it is, it's a Tibaldi trasparente in celluloid nitrate and it's really difficult to capture the colour in photo, in real life the celluloid depth it's even more stunning. It's a mechanical pencil with twist mechanism.

 

[Zookie]

Update on the Graphlet. We get along famously, I can see me getting more from the series.

[Misfit]

I’ve mostly read this whole thread and saw no mention of the Retro 51 mechanical pencil. I had to get one when I saw the version with the periodic table of elements on it. It is a bit heavy, but works well for crossword puzzles. They come with replacement erasers and lead.

 

I also ordered the special version Retro 51 made in collaboration with the Clicky Post called The System as in the solar system. I got in on the last round of ordering on that.

 

I have one set of fountain pen and mechanical pencil, which is the Levenger Truewriter in the discontinued seaglass version. Sometimes the lead won’t hold in the pencil, as when I start to write the lead slips back in. No eraser with that one.

 

I want an Autopoint, and after posting this I’m going to look up the Staedtler Mars Techno (hope I spelled that right.)

 

@sansenri: I saw your beautiful mechanical pencil on the thread you mentioned. So lovely.