Do You Like To Write With A Wooden Pencil Or A Mechanical Better?

[freshcinnamon]

I'm pretty traditional so i like to write with wooden pencils most of the time, but i also love my mechanical pencil collection, which do you prefer?

[LuckyDog10]

My moderate-to-fast pencil writing is best done with a plain old black Pentel 0.5mm mechanical pencil. If I have time to slow it down, I use the 0.3mm.

[jbb]

I like vintage mechanical pencil with the thicker lead.

[USMCMom]

Mechanical pencils are "ok", but I'd much prefer to write with a #3 wooden pencil, which are hard to find, at least where I live.

[Parc Monceau]

I'm pretty traditional so i like to write with wooden pencils most of the time, but i also love my mechanical pencil collection, which do you prefer?

 

 

I like #1 pencils. But I also like the Bic mechanical pencils, and some nice Cross mechanical pencils.

 

If I had to choose, I'd choose the mechanical ones, so as not to have to worry about sharpening.

[Ethereal Winter Wind]

Mechanical is my usual choice by I do keep normal pencils and a lead holder around

[bjornhansson]

I prefer mechanical pencils.

[milkb0at]

I prefer mechanical since the lead is always sharp when I want to sketch a graph or something.

 

Wooden pencils are handy to have scattered around the house, though.

[watch_art]

Vintage mechanical pencils. They were made of celluloid and metal. And if the mechanisms still work, way cooler and nicer to look at than modern plastic pens. Ugh...

[cubic archon]

I like the *smell* of wooden pencils. Other than that factor I prefer clutch pencils. Not a fan of mechanical pencils - they annoy me with their buzzing and tiny legs and the way they glow red-hot when I've been bad.

[Ghost Plane]

Wood - only way to get fatter, softer leads.

[nightwing]

Mechanical pencils. I've used them ever since elementary school. Now, I use pens on a regular basis, but pencils - not so much. I only use them for mathematical formulas or other situations where erasing is better than crossing things out (and permanently marking the page).

[countrydirt]

I have a couple of #4 drafting pencils that I like for their hardness, but, my weapon of choice in pencil writing is normally a .5mm Waterman or brand new Lamy Logo. I have a couple of Rhodia pencils in my drawer, but rarely think to use them. At my school, we have started requiring students to use #2 pencils as that is what they have to use when they test. Remarkable how many high schoolers have forgotten how to sharpen a pencil.

[humblescribbler]

Wood w/ a penknife nearby for crosswords. Mechanical for work. I ruined my nice heavy Rotring, flung into the forest while removing (flailing) my jacket after stepping on a football-sized yellowjacket ground nest!

[jBeckett]

I'm used to both, it doesn't really matter but "lead" aside I'd use a mechanical just for convenience sake.

[hbquikcomjamesl]

What's a pencil?

[vjones]

Mechanical, with a .9 lead. I recently got a Pentel Graphgear 1000 and I love it. It's fun. I pretty much only use it for writing music.

[jomielll]

0.3mm lead in a Japanese mechanical pencil that I can shake to advance the lead, great for fast notes

 

 

Since getting my fountain pen though, I haven't been using pencils except for scantron exams and drawing.

[Horseknitter]

I like mechanical pencils for bookkeeping and accounting work. Otherwise, I enjoy the old #2 yellow wooden ones~soft lead, smears and all.

[brewsky]

just a reg old wooden #2 pencil. they smell so good freshly sharpened