Propelling pencils

[cottonfoo]

Since there are a lot of pen lovers in here, maybe there are some pencil lovers too

I use a pencil most of the time both at home and at work, I'm the squared paper type, I currently use a 23 year old Rotring .5mm. I quite fancy a 'nice' propelling pencil and liked the look of the Porsche Design TecFlex P'3110 but they use .7mm leads which is a bit wide for me.

Any recommendations?

[Odie]

http://www.lime-office.com.au/img/productImages/pa...


I just have a few of these knocking around, not really sure how they fair for drawing but pretty good for scribbling on drawings

[andy_s]

For a nice one I'd look at the Lamy 2000 or Accent; if you're pushing the boat out have a look at the Caran d'Ache Varius Ivanhoe.










(bet you get the Ivanhoe....!)

[deejuic]

I really like drafting pencils, particularly Staedtler Regulator Drafting Pencils.

[cottonfoo]

Odie, the link is broken

The Ivanhoe looks lovely, but it only comes with 0.7mm lead capability

Staedtler Regulator looks excellent for the money. Looks like it's been discontinued though (or I can't find any for sale at least), replaced by the graphite 925 25?

[andy_s]

Ah - sorry 'bout that - Have a look on http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/ for a geek-fest, as I say, the Lamy's are good but I have a few old style Rotring pencils and they're my favourite.

[cottonfoo]

Yeah I saw that blog, he's even geekier about mech pencils than I am

My Rotrings are excellent (have two of the same), but I just know they'd go missing at work. I think if I had something a bit more expensive it'd be obvious and wouldn't go walkies.

But really, I just want a really nice propelling pencil

[deejuic]

cottonfoo said:

Odie, the link is broken

The Ivanhoe looks lovely, but it only comes with 0.7mm lead capability

Staedtler Regulator looks excellent for the money. Looks like it's been discontinued though (or I can't find any for sale at least), replaced by the graphite 925 25?

don't know. I bought mine many years ago and it still works well. I love it. Staedtler makes great pencils.

[Stupidlikeafox]

andy_s said:

Ah - sorry 'bout that - Have a look on http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/ for a geek-fest, as I say, the Lamy's are good but I have a few old style Rotring pencils and they're my favourite.

No one must ever know I found that link quite interesting...

[tertius]

Not a propelling pencil but I'm rather taken with this:

http://www.mojolondon.co.uk/stationery/other/pensp...

Saw it advertised in the in-flight mag on my way back from Zurich today.

[Nick_F]

Go retro with Yard-O'-Led.

[andy_s]

Stupidlikeafox said:

andy_s said:

Ah - sorry 'bout that - Have a look on http://davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com/ for a geek-fest, as I say, the Lamy's are good but I have a few old style Rotring pencils and they're my favourite.

No one must ever know I found that link quite interesting...

It's the sort of place where you find out that 'karandash' is Russian for pencil. Or so someone said.

[cottonfoo]

Nick_F said:

Go retro with Yard-O'-Led.

Hmm lovely, but 1.18mm lead. I do lots relationship diagrams and flowcharts and stuff so really need the .5. Maybe I could get used to the .7 ...

[russell_ram]

Assume you have 'browsed' here :

http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Mechanical-Pencil...

My particular favourite

http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/OHTO-Super-Promec...

Russ

[cottonfoo]

russell_ram said:

Assume you have 'browsed' here :

http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Mechanical-Pencil...

My particular favourite

http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/OHTO-Super-Promec...

Russ

Yep, good site that one, was browsing it at lunchtime. I bought the Super Promecha 1500P

That'll do me for the office, will try some .7mm pencils and maybe splash out on something else for home.

Cheers all!

[russell_ram]

Yep, that's exactly what happened to me !

Russ

[seaninog]

I was browsing the Jura watches sale just now, saw this and thought of you. No idea if it's what you want but the price reduction looks good so I thought I'd mention it:

http://www.jurawatches.co.uk/watch.asp?productid=7...