Mechanical Pencil Month – Day 15: The Goldilocks pencil
Unusually, the subject of today's post is a range of pencils still in production. More specifically, it is about one particular pencil from this range, for reasons that shall become…
Mechanical Pencil Month – Day 12: Twelve leads a-leaping
For the twelfth day of Christmas Mechanical Pencil Month, I present a whistlestop tour of twelve lead refills from my collection of [insert large number here]. They have been arranged…
Mechanical Pencil Month – Day 11: Side-knock pencils
Today's post takes a quick look at three examples from the small sub-genre commonly referred to as "side-knock" pencils. Unlike most conventional mechanical pencils in which the lead is advanced…
Mechanical Pencil Month – Day 7: Pentel Sharp 7
Most modern fineliner pencils come in a range of different lead sizes within the same basic chassis, typified by Pentel's P200 range which are identical in design except for the…