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Found some of their pencils on Amazon. A pack of 14 standard HB pencils is ¥565 ($3.94) [1]. I'm kind of tempted to get this set of colored pencils after watchi

• fermentation 3y ago
  Surprisingly not available on jetpens !
• ehnto 3y ago
  Fun tidbit, the Japenese word for a mechanical pencil is two english loan words, Sharp Pencil ( シャープペンシル )
  • freetime2 3y ago
    And apparently the creator of the "Ever-Ready Sharp Pencil" in Japan went on to found the electonics company "Sharp", whose name is derived from the pencil: > The mechanical pencil became successful in Japan with some improvements in 1915 by Tokuji Hayakawa, a metalworker who had just finished his apprenticeship. It was introduced as the "Ever-Ready Sharp Pencil". Success was not immediate since the metal shaft—essential for the pencil's long life—was unfamiliar to users. The Ever-Ready Sharp began selling in huge numbers after a company from Tokyo and Osaka made large orders. Later, Tokuji Hayakawa's company got its name from that pencil: Sharp. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_pencil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_pencil
• 2muchcoffeeman 3y ago
  Lead holders are quite common if you venture into an art supply store. I prefer them to normal pencils because you have the full length pencil even when the lead is tiny. These ones look very nice though.
  • iancmceachern 3y ago
    They also were once common for manual drafting. I have several and in my engineering and drafting education were referred to as drafting pencils. They have that cool whirly sharpener too. One of fmy favorite holdovers from the old world is that you can still buy them, along with a few other basic hand drafting tools from office supply stores like office depot. Stadler is one of the big brands.
    • 2dvisio 3y ago
      Mom and dad were architect and engineer in the transitioning period to CAD software and still remember my days spent sharpening drafting pencils by hand on Stadler sand paper holders. Koh-i-noor is another brand I remember.
    • pengstrom 3y ago
      There's this great YT channel of a guy who inherited his grandfather's metal shop, including a drafting table. He likes precision and proper drawings. https://youtube.com/@InheritanceMachining https://youtube.com/@InheritanceMachining
      • fho 3y ago
        That channel is great, but as with many I suspect that there is some sort of "shadow industry" that creates great YouTube channels "from scratch". If you compare inheritance machining to e.g. this old tony, the later has years of growth with the videos getting better of the years as he refines his formula. In comparison inheritance machining just popped up with perfect content, script and video editing. There are other examples of channels that just popped up that start at a very high quality level that I suspect some third party involved in that process.
        • greedo 3y ago
          I'm not quite as cynical about Inheritance Machining. Yes the quality is superb, both in video production values and subjects, but I think we're at a point where it's not that hard to create quality visual content if one cares to. High quality cameras are relatively cheap, editing software is excellent, and in many ways, a new YouTuber is standing on the shoulders of giants who created the path. Look at Marques Brownlee, arguably one of the best YTubers. He had to define what a review YTuber looks like. The next big YTuber will simply follow the same paradigm. Compare this to someone ten years ago who was trying to do this with Super-VHS etc, with software that was very expensive, and forget about doing anything multi-camera. So the tools are just far more accessible. Then combine that with a creator who has seen what works and doesn't work on YT/Insta. You need a good thumbnail, you need less talking heads etc etc. And I think that Brandon at Inheritance Machining is very detail oriented, as you would expect from someone doing machining. This probably translates well into producing a quality video.