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

[impossiblebird]

I wish I could like the Kuru Toga, maybe I'm strange but I prefer being able to rotate the pencil myself so I can have a thin or thick line.

Me too

[milkb0at]

I don't think my Kuru Toga's mechanism does anything. I still end up with a flat spot on the lead. Perhaps I'm using a particular combination of writing angle and pressure which means it doesn't work.

[Alec Fleschner]

I've been switching over to pens over the past year or two, but when I use pencils, I need mechanicals. I cannot stand a dull point on a pencil, and anything that I can't just click for sharp lead is more hassle than I need. In addition, I usually use a 0.3 width, since I'm making comments in student essays and need to write between the lines of a paper.

[chasy_price]

I have recently fallen in love with wooden pencils again........

[bobs51]

Now that I've rediscovered my old stock of pens and mechanical pencils, the mechanicals are my choice, although I do have some problems with breaking leads.

 

My favorites are .5, but the .7s break less.

 

Guess I'm a bit heavy-handed.

 

Bob

[smartson]

The spent last two days shopping for a nice pencil on auction site. In the end I decided on a modern mechanical one.

 

I like everything vintage but when it comes to pencil, I can't look beyond the 0.5mm lead for its precision and convenient.

Edited March 3, 2011 by smartson

[BASR]

Mechanical. It feels more "precise" to me. Like I have better control of it. Except for the Bic mechanical pencils. I despise those for they cannot hold the lead to save their lives.

[amyx231]

theres a "sale" on 0.9mm and 0.3mm lead over here. anyone desperately need any?

they are 50c each, i believe.

 

anyway, i was looking at the wood-less pencils. wanted some. still have my regular pencils - they are 1/2 what i paid for them 5 yrs ago (full prices, both)! But i doubt i'll use them up, before i need better quality. I love 4B and 4H! (HB is okay, but quality varies, so my carpenter's style 4H is actually darker at times).

[amyx231]

you bought a mech pencil? through school everyone hoards up a bundle of them! surely you havent broken them all?!?!

Edited March 3, 2011 by amyx231

[amyx231]

and you can get a better line with pencils in the scantron situations. and real sharp pencils are still pretty darn good. go old Ticonderogas (not the new ones, they are getting worse and now they come in cylinders, what happened to the hexagon)! (NOS pencils now, lol).

[kirtar]

It depends. I've had some terrible mechanical pencil leads and some incredible wood pencils as well as the other way around. I prefer mechanical because of the convenience as well as the fact that the line does not get significantly wider when I do not sharpen it.

[amyx231]

they have the self-rotating lead feeder area now, rotating the lead - why did they waste the money on that? i mean, seriously! i do like the idea of the frixion tho, so i guess it's different stuff for dif niches

[Spector]

mechanical

[from the bottle]

I often use a Mont Blanc Meisterstuck mechanical pencil the lead is quite thick, I love it.

I got myself a cellulose pencil holder , capped it looks like a fountainpen. Take the cap of and it is a wooden pencil inside.

[Aeltar]

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.

Agreed, except with a .4 BB lead - I write music (and words, for that matter) with a very short, small hand, as my hands cramp easily - this way I can write more than a page without cramping up, because I make smaller movements.

[chasy_price]

If I want to write script, I go with wooden pencils....I guess I never knew that before.

[fasfcastro]

I'm a mechanical pencil kind of person. It's my original addiction.

 

At the moment I'm using Ohto Super Promecha 1500P (0.3 mm), Pentel Kerry (0.5 mm) and Lamy 2000 (0.5 mm).

[Parse Error]

My worst mistake was probably to stick my Uni Alpha gel into my dusty pocket.

[grayfoxgirl]

I prefer wooden pencils. I haven't written with a mechanical pencil in years, though. I never really got the hang of using one because I was taught to have a death grip on my writing implements early on. The leads always broke on me. Now that using fountain pens has forced me to "lighten up," I really should give them another go.

[amyx231]

I prefer wooden pencils. I haven't written with a mechanical pencil in years, though. I never really got the hang of using one because I was taught to have a death grip on my writing implements early on. The leads always broke on me. Now that using fountain pens has forced me to "lighten up," I really should give them another go.

 

right on target. im using FPs to fix that problem - my fingers are happy

 

Love ur signature! It's so true!