[Closed] Auto Lead Rotation Mechanical Pencils (stationary porn)

I didn't think people like you existed.

Nah, this is the Daddy

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I didn't think people like you existed

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[b]Friends![/b]

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 -

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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.

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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.

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This might be of interest: [url= http://www.penciltalk.org/ ]Pencil Talk[/url]

I don't see it moving, do you?

No - that's why I called it stationary stationery 🙄

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😆

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

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I'm all about the [url= http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Staedtler_Mars_780_Leadholder.html ]Staedtler Mars 780c leadholder[/url] at the moment. mm oldschool.

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

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

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?

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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]

[url= http://www.pencilmuseum.co.uk/ ]pencil heaven[/url]

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.

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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;

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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 [url= http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/ ]The Fountain Pen Network. [/url]. 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 [b][i]it[/i][/b] is the daddy:

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

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

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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?

I like these. They come with a handy twisty indicator that you can set to tell you which lead you have in there, which you can then twiddle with when you're thinking and forget what you filled it with. 🙂
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Might have to try out these auto rotating ones though!

Check out the action on this folding pen!
(it was a promo for the Sinclair A-bike)

Poindexter:
"I'm more of a Swann-Morton kinda guy... A No.3 hilt coupled to a 10A blade. Perfection."

Like this:
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Oh yes! That's lush Sputnik! Mine's not quite as shiny as that, the grip is gunked up with spraymount residue and the logo has practically worn away.

I have been using the same one for the best part of 2 decades though!

Used to work with a guy who had a tiny whetstone and oilcan that he used to sharpen his blades with. They came out much sharper than a standard blade.

For those interested, it seems that jstationery ([url] http://www.jstationery.com [/url]) have some Kuru Toga pencils in (0.3mm and 0.5mm) (MrNutt having cleared out Jetpens...).

[img] [/img]the absolute best pencil I ever used, and I have used a lot of different ones was the Faber Castell TK-matic all metal self propelling pencil. sadly they were out in the 80's and have been discontinued since. they were great for drafting and for art class because by pushing down on the paper , the pencil fed a microscopic amount of lead through the feeder tube meaning non stop drawing. they felt right,balanced and solidly built. I even splurged and spent £70 getting the all black solid titanium version but it just wasn't the same. no pencil compares to it and I sadly miss it. it was a better pencil than anything Rotring, Staedler, Mont Blanc, or Ohto had to offer and to try and get a second hand one now will set you back well over £100

oooh, the thread resurection troll - that's quite rare.

And two in as many minutes 🙂

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World's smallest man

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Scale model of the world's biggest bottle

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Stationary porn from John Deere.

I have no interest in pencils, aside from using IKEA ones as rawplugs, but these treads give me hope for humanity.

I have one of those Faber TK Matic things... £100 you say! I'll have to root it out.

my pentel A313 is more than enough for my needs, but I just googled 0.3mm lead to get some refills and came across this site...

[url= http://onelonemanspensandpencils.blogspot.com/2009/05/pilot-s10-03-mm-drafting-pencil.html ]http://onelonemanspensandpencils.blogspot.com/2009/05/pilot-s10-03-mm-drafting-pencil.html[/url]

the tin-ter-net is a strange place.

[i]oooh, the thread resurection troll - that's quite rare.[/i]
From a year ago too. Did fishkettlebanana remember it, or search?
Coincidience because I found a nice silver propelling pencil in my desk tidy that I didn't know I had.
It has this logo engraved on it
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Honestly dont think I've touched a pencil for the best part of 5 years. I rarely need a pen!

[i]Did fishkettlebanana remember it, or search?[/i]

It's traditional to go to the last page of the forum and use the last topic on that. Page 2800 and whatever in this case.