Uni Kuru Toga Advance Review
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2019
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I made the mistake of buying a bunch of Kuru Toga lead. It works reasonably well in the Kuru Toga, but sucks in every other pencil I have. Just buy softer lead such as 2B. This is soft enough to work in the Kuru Toga, yet still works better in other pencils than the standard HB. Pentel has been including a tube of @B lead with many of its pencils now, and the response has been great.
The sleeve only rotates when you lift it from the paper, so the old model with forty clicks per rotation worked just fine for Japanese writing, and for printing in English, but didn't work at all well for cursive writing. Despite the complete dumbing down of public education in America, and being the laughing stock of the world, millions still write in cursive, and a few states still teach it, so the old Kuru Toga rotation engine was worthless for them.
This twice as fast rotation is supposed to make it work with cursive writing, but I think the jury is still out. I know cursive users who say it doesn't work for them, and others who say it does. I hated the old version, and just got the two models you have in the video today. One Advance and three of the other, actually. I wrote with the advance for about fifteen minutes, and it seemed to keep a sharp point pretty well, but it will obviously take more time to evaluate it.
One thing I did notice is that the lead that came in the pencil was either very, very light, or the way the pencil works made it seem so. I suspect this is because the line is a good deal thinner than I usually get with 0.5mm, a sign that the rotation is working, even with my small cursive handwriting.
I replaced the lead with 2B in one, and put 4B in the other, and the darker lines helped a good deal.
I don't think I'll use the 4B except in one pencil. 4B creates more dust, and this can clog the clutch in many pencils, so I'll wait a month or two befor using 4B in a different Kuru Toga. But. for me, being able to use much softer leads without worrying about breakage is one of the huge pluses to pencils with retracting sleeves.
As for the clip, it never made sense to me to carry any pencil in your pocket that has a drafting style tip, even if the sleeve is retractable. Anyone who thinks this makes such pencils "pocket safe" is living in fantasy land. I worked for many years in an environment when everyone carried such pencils, and I've seen all of them go right through shirt pockets. I had it happen to me at least twice. I've even seen luxury model pencils rip through a shirt pocket, though this takes a pretty good collision with another person, a door frame, etc.
This is why nerds carry pocket protectors, and why wise pen or pencil lovers carry a pen/pencil case, or at least a single pencil sleeve that you can put in your pants pocket.
As for balance, I've been using fountain pens, gel pens, mechanical pencils for more than sixty years, and I didn't have to fight a top heavy pencil, even as a child. Pencils aren't baseball bats, they're a tiny piece of plastic and metal that weighs less than half an ounce. I had no trouble winning that fight when I received my first mechanical pencil at age three.
I have a fountain pen that weighs four ounces, with most of the weight at the back. I can write with it for hours. The fight is pure illusion. It takes no real effort at all, and what seems to be a fight is just having a feel different than what you're used to.
Thanks for your thorough reply!
Wow thnx so much for the info im thinking of buying one
Hope you like it if you decide to go through with it!
Same for tombow mono graph only works good with own lead
Nice video, i recently bought Kuro toga Advance blue
mine is lavender and i love it :))
I've ordered a Kurutoga today after being a Pentel fan for a while. With Ain Stein 2B lead since people online say that 2B is good in this model.
it would be cool if Kuru Toga and the other Japanese make that lets you use 98% of the lead before the grip cant hold it any more. ie that 10mm section that usually falls out.
The PLATINUM OLEeNIU Shield and Pentel .e-Sharp seem to be Japanese mechanical pencils advertised to be lead efficient.
Sir we can use normal stationary leads?
I love uni❤️
Which one will you suggest a person who grip his pencil really hard roulette, alpha gel slim or any other: Thank you for the review.
Dr gril
Grip*
I just bought this pencil and have no idea how to replace the lead. Would have been nice to show how to replace the lead for folks that are new to mechanical pencils.
Remove the top cap and rubber and put the lead in from top
You should try the rotring rapid pro Mechanical pencil the sleeve retracts as you're writing as far as the Uni Kuru Toga Advance The rotating lead Only rotates when you're lifting the pencil off the paper but if your writing is script the rotation mechanism only writes when you take it off the paper so do an update with this Uni Kuru Toga Advance the rotring rapid pro
Nice
Thanks!
My kuru toga advance is so springy is it same at other kuru togas?
Yes it is
choosing between advance and roulette, which one do you suggest?
Personal preference is the roulette. I prefer the grip much more
Roulette is better for me, not only in grip but writing and overall quality due to the heavier metal body. The quicker engine in the Advance is not all roses as there is slight looseness and rattling of the lead with the Advance due to the quicker rotation. You can feel the slight roughness with the Advance when writing on paper. The Roulette is smoother in operation.
There's Advance Upgrade model with punch grip. If you want best of both worlds.
on a shop site it says the Advance version is auto-extending the lead (no pushing the clutch necessary) because of the sliding tip. Is that true at all?
Roulette for the grip but the straight lead slide has negatives while the advanced I would say prevents lead slide bending probably by a lot with the conical slide design, but the ridged grip can get oily and does not do well when your humanly oils cover it and makes it feel uncomfortable somewhat
Why didn’t you do an actual demonstration?
Like a writing demonstration? Because that really depends on what pencil lead you're using.
how bout some writing for crist sake. what a joke review
Lol I haven't typically done writing samples with mechanical pencils because the sample varies based on the lead used. I don't recall if I say that in this video but I typically did so maybe actually listen to the review?