What Pencil Are You Using Today?

[ParramattaPaul]

13 hours ago, lectraplayer said:

I swear. People will steal anything that isn't nailed down. :3

That said, stolen writing implements are probably about as common as rocks in the river.

😎

[Suspect Ink]

My go to is GraphGear 1000. I ended up giving 5 away to coworkers after finding a good deal from a office depot going out of business. 

[Misfit]

I accidentally posted about a pen here. I do need to try the Levenger True Writer Starry Night mechanical pencil. 

[mr T.]

Today I am using a Stabilo Swano pastel in HB=2.5 (apricot, made in the Czech Republic) 

[ISW_Kaputnik]

Haven't posted here in, oh, about three years, although I do visit from time to time to read things.  On a whim, since I use a lot of pencils, thought I'd post in this thread.

 

For drawing, mostly a vintage Eagle 314 draughting pencil.  That's about a two inch stub in the extender.  Almost time to break out another one.  I have about three dozen unused ones, which should last me quite a while.  They're getting too expensive to buy more unless I get lucky at a yard sale.

 

For writing, mostly the old Parker 0.9 mm pencil you see, although I also have this little no name 1.1 mm one.

 

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[cherylmarie]

I often get mechanical pencils when I buy fountain pen lots from eBay.  Normally, I group them together and re-sell them.   I do like the Sheaffer "Pearlies" and my husband does too, so they go straight to his desk.  However, this is what I got today and I like it enough to keep!  Is this common?  I've never seen one before.

That's a picture of the Sheaffer Pen Co. headquarters in Fort Madison, Iowa!

[psimpson130]

On 5/10/2024 at 8:57 PM, ParramattaPaul said:

Did you not have access to the 'U.S. Government' stamped dual end mechanical pencils I know are/were issued to FAA air traffic controllers?  The one I . . . um . . . procured worked well.

I did, but the lead was too thick. On some of the charts we used, that lead would give a line about 5 miles wide. Still liked the 0.5s.  I did have a couple of the red/black mechanical pencils the maintainers used. One of them had blue and red lead for when we reconstructed a mission. Had a piece of blue electrical tape on it to let me know it was blue lead. Still have them around here someplace. 

[ParramattaPaul]

1 hour ago, psimpson130 said:

On some of the charts we used, that lead would give a line about 5 miles wide.

Not your typical low altitude sectional or high-altitude charts then?

[Penguincollector]

  I was given a blue Eversharp Executive Skyline pencil (not a pencil person, so that may not be entirely correct, haven’t looked it up yet) that matches my Skyline fp. It’s a beautiful color and I look forward to the next rabbit hole.

[OCArt]

A 1950's turquoise Sheaffer pencil that I inherited from my brother. I remember taking it all apart and playing with it during 5th grade math class.  Alas, I haven't seen my brother's original one in 60 years but I did buy a duplicate that's always on my desk. (Not my photo from eBay)

 

 

[essayfaire]

Not fancy- Eberhard Faber American Naturals EF

[Doug C]

2 Franklin Christoph pencils.

[Mike-S]

On 3/25/2024 at 2:29 PM, Centurion said:

Mitsubishi Hi-Uni or Tombow MONO 100? Years ago I talked a friend into us buying boxes (often we couldn’t just buy a single pencil, had to be a whole box) of various wooden pencils ✏️ in different hardnesses, and we concluded Mitsubishi Hi-Uni and Tombow MONO 100 to be the best. The real world practical differences weren’t so great, so we acknowledged that any high quality pencil (e.g. Blackwing, Staedtler Mars Lumigraph) we would be more than happy using. Still, we felt Mitsubishi Hi-Uni and Tombow MONO 100 to be noticeably better. But while we thought Mitsubishi Hi-Uni and Tombow MONO 100 to be at the same level, there are differences and we had trouble describing the difference.
 

How would you describe the difference between Mitsubishi Hi-Uni vs Tombow MONO 100?

 

P.S. We were surprised that we agreed over 90 % of the time during our unscientific testing. We regretted that we didn’t take good notes at that time. It could have been a blog post.

 

[Retro-user]

I’m using a Musgrave Pencil King which I quite like for its smooth, dark line. 

[ParramattaPaul]

0.7mm Derwent Precision.  It's easily my favourite mechanical pencil. 

[Misfit]

A Levenger True Writer Starry Night mechanical pencil. 

[Silvicolus]

A plain, sterling, c. 1920 Wahl Eversharp. The crown is engraved with the initials B. C. With the B a smaller letter inside of the C. 

[ParramattaPaul]

3 hours ago, Silvicolus said:

A plain, sterling, c. 1920 Wahl Eversharp. The crown is engraved with the initials B. C. With the B a smaller letter inside of the C. 

WHOA! Bing Crosby's pencil. 

 

WOW!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just kidding.

[Mark from Yorkshire]

Rotring Tikky 0.5mm propelling pencil 

[Doug C]

Parker Duofold black and cream.