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Today, we are honored to have a guest post from Leon of Oude Tonge, Netherlands. L. to R.: Stanley knife, Pentel Side FX 0.5 PD255, HEMA vulpotlood, Pentel Function .357, Uni Kuru Toga 0.5, Kaweco Sport Since my schooldays, I haven’t done much work with a mechanical pencil. I have an education as a pre-press [...] Let’s take a brief trip into the almost departed world of drafting by pencil. Before computer aided design (CAD), precision drawings were made by hand. Architects, draftspeople, engineers, and others, used lead pencils alongside other tools to create plans for everything from small industrial parts to immense cities. The observations made here are probably trivialities [...] Graphite is not the only refill available for mechanical pencils and leadholders. Colour lead refills, red in particular, are available in several formats. They might be be used by teachers, accountants, or anyone seeking to make a noticeable mark. The thicker versions might have uses in carpentry and masonry. Let’s examine ten of them. 0.5mm [...] I can’t read much of it, yet it seems to speak very well to many interests of mine. Red and blue pencils, leadholders, quirky office accessories – they’re all here, and featured prominently. The magazine is in Japanese, with about 150 glossy pages crammed full of photos of woodcase pencils, mechanical pencils, leadholders, erasers, sharpeners, [...] The Eagle Draughting pencil is a delight from the past. The Pilot S20 is a very special pencil. It could be classified in many ways – as a drafting pencil, a mechanical pencil, or as a luxury pencil. The S20 has the shape and features of a drafting pencil, and it is a drafting pencil, but it’s also perfectly usable as a general purpose mechanical [...] |
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