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@AkitaMom -- I presume that the pencil just says "MIT" on the barrel? ;)  Or does it have the full name ("Massachusetts Institute of Technology") on it?

Of course now for some reason I'm thinking back to when I was looking at colleges and one of the places I looked into was Rhode Island School of Design.  Didn't see ANY of the campus -- just sat in a room with a bunch of other people while people talked about how wonderful the place was, and how you could get your non-art credit courses at Brown (and I remember thinking, "Yeah -- if they aren't filled up by BROWN students...."  And if you changed majors you basically had to go longer because there was so little overlap between curricula between majors, and my mom remembering one person who wanted to transfer there from somewhere in NYS and they would have accepted so few of the classes she'd already had, she'd have to start back as a SOPHOMORE and my mom said, she just got up and walked out.  Of course, SUNY Purchase was the complete opposite from the rigidity of RISD but I didn't like it any better (not the least of which being it was basically a "suitcase school" where everyone went to NYC for the weekend, which you could do if you had a CAR...).  And I was in a group of about 8 students they wanted to admit but had to wait for the state budget to go through (clearly they didn't have it in the budget to have a REAL building for painting classes -- THOSE were held in a giant quonset hut!  We only found about the reason for the admittance delay because my dad called the Dean of Students to find out why I hadn't heard whether I'd actually been accepted or not.... :headsmack:

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Using my new Rotring 800 today - so a mechanical pencil. .5mm with 2B "lead" in it

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I've been using the Kura Toga advance - with a .7mm lead for the last month or so. 

 

It's very good for writing and drawing. I prefer thicker leads, because they're easier to read and don't break so quickly.

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YIKES!  I just looked at your link and that PENCIL is nearly as much as I paid for my two most expensive pens (the Pelikan M405 Stresemann and the Pelikan M405 Blue Black) -- COMBINED.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

"It's very nice, but frankly, when I signed that list for a P-51, what I had in mind was a fountain pen."

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Just now, inkstainedruth said:

YIKES!  I just looked at your link and that PENCIL is nearly as much as I paid for my two most expensive pens (the Pelikan M405 Stresemann and the Pelikan M405 Blue Black) -- COMBINED.... 

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I have the Vermeil and bought it used, but it was a big gulp.

Sold my other to fund it.

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Old, YOL pencils can be picked up at a reasonable price from a lot of the antique stores in the uk. I found a nice one a few years ago in York. There where one or two when i was out, at a couple of antique shops this weekend closer to home

Mark from the Latin Marcus follower of mars, the god of war.

 

Yorkshire Born, Yorkshire Bred. 
 

my current favourite author is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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I have a lot of pencils, both vintage and modern.  For actual daily use, I think the Retro 51 Tornado pecils are unbeatable.  If you like or need a very fine line, the 1.15 mm lead is not that, but if you want a solid  pencil that is built like a tank, and with lead that will take pressure, it's your pencil.  I like a bit of frivolity, so my favourite among the lot is the "Space Cat" one.  

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I just looked that up, and it sure is cute.  Do you know if they made a FP version?

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