Thank you for including one of these pencils in my recent care package. I thought it was very interesting, was excited to use it or try it out. I found it not as dark as I had thought it would be, being that it was a Deli. But I did find it to be remarkably light for its giant size!
I could take or leave those gouges myself. Maybe they'd fit better for smaller thinner fingertips like a child's, but I found that recesses in my writing tools are irrelevant to my experience. I write the same with any grip, be it smooth, knurled, indented, cushioned, whatever. If Deli offers a perfectly flat and smooth version of the Smart Go for a bit cheaper, I'd take it over this. So fun fact, MAMO: you and Kevin have reviewed plenty of these larger "jumbo"/"beginner's"/"comfort" pencils, and in my last visit to my stationery shop I got curious. So I purchased one such pencil for myself, in my case a Molin* Jumbo HB. It's probably the oddest pencil I own: it writes with the darkness of an HB, the tactile feedback of an F or H (dry and scratchy, but doesn't affect performance), and the point retention of a 4H if not harder. I swear, I sharpened it _once,_ even oversharpened it by mistake, and despite writing several notebook pages' worth of text, I can't seem to shorten or blunt that spike on the end! 🤣 *: Brazilian brand, may or may not be outsourced to Linc, not sure
Thank you for including one of these pencils in my recent care package. I thought it was very interesting, was excited to use it or try it out. I found it not as dark as I had thought it would be, being that it was a Deli. But I did find it to be remarkably light for its giant size!
Interesting.
@@ma-mo So I discovered today that you sent me two! So I have one at work, and will start using it soon to see how it does.
Or, if you truly have gorilla hands: chopsticks!
Very unique pencil are carved shafts common? I definitely like the color combo.
Not common at all.
I wish Deli made one of their excellent long point sharpeners able to handle a jumbo sharpener. That would be the best sharpener in the world.
@@LouiesWorkshop Agreed.
I could take or leave those gouges myself. Maybe they'd fit better for smaller thinner fingertips like a child's, but I found that recesses in my writing tools are irrelevant to my experience. I write the same with any grip, be it smooth, knurled, indented, cushioned, whatever. If Deli offers a perfectly flat and smooth version of the Smart Go for a bit cheaper, I'd take it over this.
So fun fact, MAMO: you and Kevin have reviewed plenty of these larger "jumbo"/"beginner's"/"comfort" pencils, and in my last visit to my stationery shop I got curious. So I purchased one such pencil for myself, in my case a Molin* Jumbo HB. It's probably the oddest pencil I own: it writes with the darkness of an HB, the tactile feedback of an F or H (dry and scratchy, but doesn't affect performance), and the point retention of a 4H if not harder. I swear, I sharpened it _once,_ even oversharpened it by mistake, and despite writing several notebook pages' worth of text, I can't seem to shorten or blunt that spike on the end! 🤣
*: Brazilian brand, may or may not be outsourced to Linc, not sure
There's whole continent-sized markets with pencils I've yet to try. This encourages me.
I remember using a triangular pencil with gouges years ago. I don't remember who made it, but as I recall it was a standard sized pencil - not jumbo.
Got some standard sized pencils just like these (but obviously smaller) recently as well. I might (or might not) review those also.