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

[IWantThat]

Rarely use pencils, but I do have a few laying around my desk - all wooden pencils. With mechanical pencils, I break the lead too easily

[Jared C]

a pentel sharp kerry for me. I like the idea of woodcase pencils, but every time I use one I realize how much I like having a sharp point all the time.

[Parse Error]

I get away with using 2b lead on scantrons and I think I might get away with 4b because I do not put any pressure on my pens.

 

5B or softer wooden pencil I will use though.

[ANM]

I prefer a Parker Insignia (.05) for everyday writing and sketching and a Waterman (.07) for crosswords and cryptograms. I do not like hard lead. I prefer 2B or softer. The nice thing about soft lead pencils is that I can write darkly with very light pressure so it is easy to erase mistakes.

[Merrib]

I go for mechanical pencils all the way never have to worry about sharpening them.

[paperskater]

The only wooden pencils I use are the Palomino Blackwings. They took the place of my Dixon Ticonderogas when I first discovered them.

 

I have one mechanical pencil as well, the Kuru Toga with the auto-rotating lead.

 

[chasy_price]

Mechanic pencils. And cannot write well if the lead is thicker than 0.5mm....

[Fuddlestack]

Wood: they don't zap your fillings. You can keep the rubbers, too, they taste horrible.

Edited February 17, 2011 by Fuddlestack

[BrandonA]

mechanical. Saves the need to have a sharpener handy.

[SnowLeopard]

My collection of really old mechanicals, I use for drafting.

Edited February 17, 2011 by SnowLeopard

[John the Monkey]

I use any or all, depending on mood. I really like the Worther Shorty clutch pencils for fast loose sketching, a .7 or .9mm mechanical pencil (Staedtler Mars Micro at the moment) with a soft-ish lead for more precise stuff, and Staedtler "Tradition" or Faber Castell "Grip" wooden pencils in 3H (mostly for outlines). Although, if I have an idea, I'll draw with whatever comes to hand!

 

I do like the idea of picking up a nice vintage mechanical pencil, but haven't got 'round to it yet.

[eric47]

Mechanical

- Fewer trees killed

- I don't have to sharpen the point

[eric47]

You can keep the rubbers, too, they taste horrible.

 

:blink:

Oh right, you speak British. :roflmho:

[John the Monkey]

:blink:

Oh right, you speak British. :roflmho:

There's a routine by British comedian Jasper Carrott that plays on that difference, as he tries to buy a pencil eraser (rubber, for us right pondians) in the US "Have you got a shaped one? 'Cause I like to chew the end while I'm thinking..."

[beak]

Love writing with (ordinary wood) pencils, and sometimes sharpen to a mild chisel edge (actually using a big chisel: quickest way to do it, I think) to give an italic effect. Can't sand mechanical pencils - too fiddly and unreliable for me.

 

My very first post here was called something like 'I prefer writing with pencils'. But it's not practical these days, it seems, though of course it used to be extrememly common. Pencil extenders a must for me so as not to throw away all the short bits.

 

Since going back to the fountain pen I've discovered that my writing with pencils is improved no end. The practise that was required to re-master (or merely control) the fountain pen has paid dividends with the pencil.

 

I forming a theory that the 'better' the writing instrument the more it shows up faults in the writing!

Edited February 17, 2011 by beak

[Faulkner]

Mechanical as long as the lead is at least 0.7 mm. Otherwise they break, :embarrassed_smile: maybe I put too much pressure, too easily.

[Ethereal Winter Wind]

Mechanical as long as the lead is at least 0.7 mm. Otherwise they break, :embarrassed_smile: maybe I put too much pressure, too easily.

 

That doesn't even make sense, you use fountain pens but you put to much pressure with mech pencils...

[JMX]

I really like my Koh-I-Noor Toisson D'Or 5900 (2 mm).

 

Cheap and does the job. Doesn't look too bad, either.

 

 

[beak]

Mechanical as long as the lead is at least 0.7 mm. Otherwise they break, :embarrassed_smile: maybe I put too much pressure, too easily.

 

That doesn't even make sense, you use fountain pens but you put to much pressure with mech pencils...

 

HMMM I think it does, and I've been draughting professionally for decades; That particular sound of a mechanical pencil point breaking, and the short profanity following is one I hear all the time, from those that use them. Personally preferences, and all that.

[hicksdm]

I prefer to use wood pencils but mainly use the mechanicals. I only use pencil to take notes in my Bible and the mechanical just seems to work better.