Muji Acrylic Mechanical Pencil Review

Muji Acrylic Mechanical Pencil Review

The Muji Acrylic Pencil is a 0.5mm mechanical pencil that costs £2.50 in the UK and $3.50 in the US. It has a most excellent sprung clothes-peg style clip. It will clip onto most things and it’s very unlikely to break. It’s great! The barrel is, unsurprisingly, made of clear acrylic and if you like…

Palomino HB Pencil Review

Palomino HB Pencil Review

The Palomino HB is a wooden pencil available in orange or blue. It costs about a dollar and is made in Japan. This pencil’s made from incense cedar, which is a good thing. It smells great and it sharpens well. Much like the Palomino Graphite Drawing Pencils, which I suspect are the same pencil only…

Bullet Pencil TT Review

Bullet Pencil TT Review

The Bullet Pencil TT is an aluminium pencil holder made by T. W. Grant & Sons. It’s available with a stylus tip (the ST model, costing $39) and without (this model, the TT, costing $35). It was originally a Kickstarter project which delivered on time. The TT comes in two parts. A short tip holds…

Staedtler 925 25-07 mechanical pencil review

Staedtler 925 25-07 mechanical pencil review

The Staedtler 925 25-07 is a metal barrelled mechanical pencil available in 0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9 or 2mm versions. They can be found for around £16 in the UK or $20 in the US. This is a very well constructed pencil. There is a slight wobble to the knock but other than that everything is…

General’s Cedar Pointe wooden pencil review

General’s Cedar Pointe wooden pencil review

The General’s Cedar Pointe is a wooden hex pencil available, as far as I can tell, just as a No. 2/HB. They’re available for $6 for a dozen. The natural finish looks and feels fantastic. Just one side is printed on, in simple black lettering. They are mercifully barcode free. The black ferrule is looks…

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