yeah ok, but these are a bit special.

Uni-ball Kuru Toga Auto Lead Rotation Mechanical Pencils

mmm tasty…

get em if you can, these beauties sell out usually within minutes!

http://www.jetpens.com/index.php/cPath/45_669

got an email announcing the restock at 22:19 and was unable to get on the site until just now, I’ve bought x4 in blue if anyones desperate for one you can beg and plead! 😆

can’t wait to get it on the drawing board!! 🙂

I didn’t think people like you existed.

Nah, this is the Daddy

I didn’t think people like you existed

Friends!

i’m still using the metal Rotring propelling-pencil i’ve had for almost 25 years, it’s a thing of reassuring joy

i spent 15 minutes fondling various water-colour papers this afternoon and then got needlessly excited by an A4 cutting-mat

help me

Alright then Jo – I’ll pop round and take it off your hands. I’ll leave you with a box of these instead –

and then got needlessly excited by an A4 cutting-mat

help me

Sheer genius.

I go into Lawrence Art supplies in Hove with the kids every now and again so they can get some new watercolours or brushes.

There is soemthing strangely fascinating about all the kit they have for sale and it’s relative merits.

Mind you I spend time reading the Axminster Tools catalogue just to see the various bits of woodworking stuff they do so I may already be lost…

The Rotring Tikky satisfies my needs. Until I can justify buying the pencil to match the Mont Blanc Meisterstuck that my wife bought me for our first wedding anniversary.

If we’re talking about stationery porn, that baby is in a different league!

Good to see there are other stationery geeks out there, takes you back to those halcyon days of WHSmiths shatterproof rulers, big white soap bar-shaped erasers and Oxford geometry sets in tin boxes. Happy days!

Stationary stationery

That’s the good thing about the internet. It brings all the like minded freaks together and you can guarantee there will other people like you who have already created a website for it.

If you type in ‘masturbating frantically over auto lead rotating pencil’, google responds with ‘state auto lead rotating manufacturer’

In the pencil world there is only one “Daddy”.

The black and yellow Staedtler Noris.

The Arian super pencil.

In these times of economic hardship our purchasing department have taken to stocking inferior pencils from Banner and Viking Direct. Utter rubbish.

uplink – Member
Stationary stationery

I don’t see it moving, do you? 😉

Harry, I prefer the Mars Lumograph, 2B being my my favourite jack-of-all-trades pencil.

This might be of interest: Pencil Talk

I don’t see it moving, do you?

No – that’s why I called it stationary stationery 🙄

😆

Sorry uplink, thought you were mocking the OP’s mistake in the thread title. Unforgivable IMO! 😆

I’m all about the Staedtler Mars 780c leadholder at the moment. mm oldschool.

For me, none other than this one will do…a suitable size to fit behind the ear too…

Seeing the Staedtler Mars has just taken me back to the 80’s. God bless you for that. A quality item for sure. However I was a child then so it was acceptable to be excited.

i’m still using the metal Rotring propelling-pencil i’ve had for almost 25 years, it’s a thing of reassuring joy

Yep, Jo speaks truth. Nothing is nicer than the knurled metal finish of a Rotring. It’s not fancy or gaudy, but it works and will keep working forever. I love them. Although having lost my last one moving from NZ to the UK I need a new one (and I don’t even use pencils very much these days).

No one ever heard of CAD?

Now these are the daddies, had mine for over 15 years.

I’m all about the Staedtler Mars 780c leadholder at the moment. mm oldschool.

Niiiiice… Complete with integrated sharpener in the silver cap if I remember correctly. I remember splitting Mars Lumographs in half to steal the graphite to fuel my 780c. Sacrilege, I know, but you just couldn’t get 4B leads to fit otherwise.

[hangs head in shame]

pencil heaven

To draw lines…

Start>Programs>Inventor2009

& at 10 min intervals…

Start>Programs>Firefox>Bookmarks>STW

OK! So you are all (mainly) drawerists, I’ not. I’m a wordy writer, and everything I write is planned in pencil beforehand, yes, I work everything out with my pencil <guffaw>! That means about four hours per working day pushing that sodding pencil around. 🙄

So, the weight and balance of the pencil is trop important to me. In my search for the perfect balance I have tried all of the above, and I mean all, and others not mentioned. Most of them are too light and with 0.5 lead too scratchy. PJT201 got closest, but that front is just a tad too heavy.

Just for ref, here is the nicest pencil I have used, and my bestest.

But the best working pencil, and the veteran of many hundreds of thousands of words is this. It isn’t just the daddy, this one says,
“Where’s your Fakkin tawl?” and when you reply,
“Which Fakkin Tawl? It says in reply,
“This Fakkin Tawl!” And clonks you with its perfect weightiness and 0.7mm glidiness.

Ladeez and Gennilmun I give you;

QED.

LJ. 😉

come on alex, we all get excited by pencils but shouldn’t you be working.
on that note what am i doing here. whoops.
im the artistic type so prefur the 100% lead with no wood ones . only found in art shops.

if anyone can tell me what they b called that’d be great.

This whole pencil-porn thing is a mystery to me…

no bottoms on pencils, sfb, that’s why you’re baffled.

If you’re gonna have a fancy pencil, you will want a fancy pencil sharpener.

if anyone can tell me what they b called that’d be great.

I have some of these – actually, I have about twice as many as I bought. They have a tendency to ‘multiply by 2’ when they roll off the desk onto the floor. Make a right old mess when you sharpen them over those mesh bins from Ikea.

In the pencil world there is only one “Daddy”. The black and yellow Staedtler Noris

Which is why I have a pack in my desk drawer for “special” occasions.

And for those into fountain pen pron, make your way over to The Fountain Pen Network. . And you can keep your Mont Blancs – Conway Stewart is where it’s at.

And don’t even get me started on writing paper….

PS Mr Nutt – Jetpens is ace, isn’t it? I have an AG Spalding Bros fountain pen from there.

[cough] Lead holder 😯

Must admit i’m still using a pentel p205 that i’m sure i bought whilst at college in my teens and i’m in my early 60’s now….and for all those pen addicts i have a mont blanc (present couple of crimbles ago)

You are all wrong.

this is what I have on my desk and it is the daddy:

Now I know this is a pencil thread, but I couldn’t resist:

The Olfa Silver.
I just love its simple design and feel/balance.

I’m more of a Swann-Morton kinda guy… A No.3 hilt coupled to a 10A blade. Perfection.

Edit: I see JoB is of the same opinion! 😀

Mmm, that Swann-Norton looks sharp.
Choice of surgeons, eh?