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I prefer Pentel GraphGear 1000 mechanical pencils. They're metal, carry a bunch of refill leads, fine-grained tip length control (2 clicks is perfect), and even
by chrisweekly 5y ago
I prefer Pentel GraphGear 1000 mechanical pencils. They're metal, carry a bunch of refill leads, fine-grained tip length control (2 clicks is perfect), and even have erasers you can extend when they start to wear down.
- throwanem 5y agoThat looks like a very good design! When I use a pencil, I like a Twist-Erase III for most of the same reasons. But I've also found a good fountain pen to be faster and more comfortable to use than any pencil, and over the past few years pens have much improved my hand besides. I started with a Pilot Metropolitan, and will happily recommend it to anyone as an easy, inexpensive starter pen that works well, looks good, and requires an absolute minimum of fuss. (You also don't need to replace cartridges in a pen all that often - at least not in a Pilot pen, whose cartridges hold a milliliter. I just like to have a spare so I don't find myself having to grab the loaner rollerball from my satchel, and a spare for the spare in case I use the first spare and forget to replace it. I grant I may slightly overthink this, but I've been being me for long enough now to have a pretty good grasp of most failure modes, too...)