I've followed the #fountainPens hashtag for years as a bit of a pen-head, but as I sit here using my nice Staedtler 1.3mm mech pencil, I'm wondering where are all my pencil homies?
Is there a mechanical pencil, or maybe graphite-enthusiast, hashtag I'm missing? Do we need one?
Excuse the inappropriately-excessive number of tags – trying a few to see what pops up or gathers compadres.
#mastoPencil #Pencils #mechpencil #graphite #graphytodon #pencilphilia #stationery
This is my Staedtler 1.3mm Triangular-grip pencil by the way. It's nice having a beefier lead size if you're like me and snap the 0.7mm leads all the time.
Okay a bit of a repeat from last summer, but I got a nice Kaweco 5.6mm in August.
Very pleasant to use, and does dual duty in my workshop and at my desk.
It is funny when someone try to write with the automatic pencil with a tungsten carbide tip I use to mark the metal.
I say them "Oh, it's empty again! Let me recharge it!", then I swiftly replace the tungsten with a lead: "Here, now it works" 😄
@shoofle Cool. I see it available at my favourite pen/pencil shop (in Montreal).
https://papeterie-nota-bene.myshopify.com/collections/pousse-mine
@shoofle @ottaross GraphGear 1000 with 0.7 mm leads is my current go-to. I don't like that it's got a plastic part (the bit that lets you rotate the hardness display) that snaps if you drop it from high enough. It's also a little tall for my pocket. I do like the retractable tip and it feels good in my hand.
I've got a clone ("Blocky Gear") as well. It's too light and cheap, but has 2 mm lead, which has been fun to use.
@eljojo No - haven't crossed streams yet… trains, ottawa and pencils? Follow. :)
@aeberbach The H2105 looks familiar, I think I have one around too.
The Kuru Togas look great. I like the auto rotate feature. I recall seeing a demo of a high end one for a couple of hundred $ that looked like a delightfully over-engineered object of desire.
"hi, my name is paul and i'm a writing tool addict..." :)
yeah. fountain pens and mechanical pencils.
on the pencil front, i'm mostly using wood bodied these days. the pilot s20 series seems to just fit my hand, the wood is non slippery and it's got some heft but not too heavy for sketching.
@paul_ipv6 hi! By wood bodied, so you mean non-mechanical wood, or wood body with a mechanism?
I'm a fan of old school non-mech pencils too. The Palomino Blackwings are very nice, even if they are remakes of the originals.
Staedtler mechanical pencil? Yep. I prefer a finer graphite rod ... 0.5 mm. And soft-ish, I want to see the marks, and I want to be able to erase them -- with my Staedtler eraser.
I have multiple red and blue ones. I haven't seen these particular models in the store lately (last decade at least). Good thing I bought several way back when.
Got a set of Koh-i-noor (0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9) in grad school (when years didn't start with 2...) This one was right to hand.
Also have a couple Rotrings which are most often my daily use: an older-style, black bodied 600, and this newer style one in silver.
I started with the 0.5mm Pentel P205, way back in the day, and still have a couple of those floating around, too.
@Cornellbox the Koh-i-noors are such classic engineering pencils, that would be nice to have indeed.
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