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The Midori CL pencil is a plastic bodied mechanical pencil that costs about £2.50 in the UK. It’s available in 0.3mm and 0.5mm versions and in blue, white and pink. It’s simply styled, with minimal branding. It looks quite 60s to me. I don’t like it as much in person as I thought I would…
The Staedtler Tradition is a wooden pencil that’s available in HB with an eraser or everything from 6B to 6H without. It costs about 65p in the UK. This is a very common pencil here in the UK. Along with the slightly cheaper yellow-barrelled Noris, they’re everywhere in schools and can be picked up in…
The Platinum Pro-Use I is a metal barrelled mechanical pencil available in 0.3mm, 0.5mm and 0.7mm lead sizes. It costs about £11 in the UK and $16.50 in the USA. Note that there is a Pro-Use II that has a much chunkier design. That’s model MSD-1500, this one is MSD-1000. The barrel, grip, clip and…
The Six Mile Pencil is the result of a Kickstarter campaign by brothers Mat and Ben Lyon. They’re available for £8 (about $12) for a pack of four pencils and a little notebook. It’s available in a 10 km version for you continental types. It’s a lovely idea, tracking your thoughts, your writing, your drawings…
The Faber-Castell Dessin 2001 is a mid-priced (about 70p/$1) wooden pencil. It’s only available in a limited range of lead grades (I’ve seen HB, B and 2B but there may be more). This 2001 version has an eraser, there’s a 2000 version that’s without. The finish is water-based and applied well although the gold lettering…