What was your last impulsive pencil purchase?

[miwishi63]

In the spirit of a similar topic elsewhere...

 

I added a vintage Sheaffer mechanical pencil to my watchlist. The buyer contacted me offering a lower price. I didn't need it...but pressed the "accept" button before I stopped to think. Under $10, so I'm happy.

[A Smug Dill]

Caran d'Ache Alfredo Häberli limited edition Fixpencil in plum.

[Chandon]

Craft Design Technology Kerry in 0,5mm, which was on E-bay. Great pencil.

[danielbird193]

I'm a long-time fountain pen user (hence joining this forum!) but very new to the world of mechanical pencils. I've jumped straight in by ordering a Kuru Toga Roulette and Pentel Kerry (both 0.5mm with a box of Ain Stein 2B lead).

 

Do people here tend to use mechanical pencils for specific purposes (drawing, draughtsmanship, mathematics..)? Or are there any other generalist users here?

[inkstainedruth]

Not really impulsive so much as a necessity.... 

I seem to have misplaced the bag with my drawing/drafting tools in my house, and had to replace them all recently, including the lead holder and lead pointer.  So I now have a brand new Staedtler-Mars lead holder and a partial pack of Berol Turquoise 2H leads (the lead holder and sharpener came from the local Dick Blick, and the leads from a thrift store specializing in arts and crafts supplies and cost me a buck (the leads will last me a couple of years at least).

Wasn't till I got to where I was going to be using them a couple of weeks ago that I realized I'm still going to have to go back and get a proportion wheel, and maybe some right triangles triangles, but I've gotten pretty much everything I need for the moment.  

Of course, as somebody said, "Well, now that you've bought them, the old ones will turn up...."

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

[miwishi63]

Another vintage Shaffer in silver (white dot). I'm also enabling a colleague at work - gave him a Zebra M301 that he liked then a vintage Sheaffer, which he is currently using and enjoying! 

[Lamy4life]

Its been a while since I bought stationery, I need to slowwww downn. 

At the peyton street pens pen posse, I may have went a bit overboard in the free bins. Plus towards the end there was still a lot left. I think my fave from the bunch would be a Whalever-sharp, It needed quite the cleaning. Slencils are a close second. Find graphite sizes for them is a struggle but I dont use them that much anyways. I tried to fix a few of the pens but broke quite a few trying to, I experimented with 3d printing ink sacks but the flex filament I use was too tough and I broke the lever. I tried to 3d print a new lever but doing small details on FDM is hard. I break lots of stuff trying to fix them, its a learning experience haha. 

 

[1nkulus]

Maped 2B (12pk).

 

I have no need for any more but usually buy anything on sale/clearance, just for variety.