Thank you for sharing. I own a lot of mechanical pencils but find myself using the Pentel 205 every time, perhaps because of their lightness and simplicity. I tell myself that if they could produce the same ones in metal, it would be perfect for me. and I'm talking about the ones that have a minimalist, thin shape with a non-removable clip, not like the ones you show here.
I used to be a 0.5 buff until I got a few pacers to pick from (cheap brand but fun to collect all the colours) and got to writing with them in several different lead sizes. Then I got my first Pentel, a P209 under Doug TenNapel's orientation. One thing he got right is, once the point on one side is spent enough it glides through the paper like a brush rather than a pencil. I don't draw, but I do write in Japanese, and that brush-like glide was just what I wanted to create the dynamic effects on the ideograms (kanji) and syllabograms (kana) without having to get a fude brush or a fountain pen. Nowadays I have Sharps in all lead sizes except 0.3 (though I do have an Orenz), and copies in different colours for a few sizes (like one classic blue and one white P207s, and one classic mustard and one scarlet red P209). They're just great basic pacers, no discussion. Although I'm very partial to the GraphGear 500, I only need it in 0.7mm to complete my set.
Thank you for sharing. I own a lot of mechanical pencils but find myself using the Pentel 205 every time, perhaps because of their lightness and simplicity. I tell myself that if they could produce the same ones in metal, it would be perfect for me. and I'm talking about the ones that have a minimalist, thin shape with a non-removable clip, not like the ones you show here.
I used to be a 0.5 buff until I got a few pacers to pick from (cheap brand but fun to collect all the colours) and got to writing with them in several different lead sizes. Then I got my first Pentel, a P209 under Doug TenNapel's orientation. One thing he got right is, once the point on one side is spent enough it glides through the paper like a brush rather than a pencil. I don't draw, but I do write in Japanese, and that brush-like glide was just what I wanted to create the dynamic effects on the ideograms (kanji) and syllabograms (kana) without having to get a fude brush or a fountain pen.
Nowadays I have Sharps in all lead sizes except 0.3 (though I do have an Orenz), and copies in different colours for a few sizes (like one classic blue and one white P207s, and one classic mustard and one scarlet red P209). They're just great basic pacers, no discussion. Although I'm very partial to the GraphGear 500, I only need it in 0.7mm to complete my set.
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