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. 🙂

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)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_23Z9J871ak

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

Like this:

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 (http://www.jstationery.com) have some Kuru Toga pencils in (0.3mm and 0.5mm) (MrNutt having cleared out Jetpens…).

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 🙂

World’s smallest man

Scale model of the world’s biggest bottle

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…

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

the tin-ter-net is a strange place.

oooh, the thread resurection troll – that’s quite rare.
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

Honestly dont think I’ve touched a pencil for the best part of 5 years. I rarely need a pen!

Did fishkettlebanana remember it, or search?

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.