[split] Mechanical Pencils and High Quality Lead

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(10-12-2024 11:51 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  ...aha, other people get how engineers want pens and pencils to look and feel.

I'm an engineer too (at least according to some papers they gave me long ago), but I consider these far too substantial (heavy and thick) for my taste. I prefer them light and rather "filigree", also I would never use a 0.7mm pencil, 0.5 at maximum but preferably 0.3mm. And I would never put the cap onto any pen when writing because I like them nose-heavy.

This is my red all-aluminium Rotring pencil, according to Google image search possible an "Esprit" model, that I bought at our university stationary shop in 1989, the day my ph.d. grant was approved. I thought: "I will need a good pencil for the next 3-5 years (in the end it toke more like 10 years...) so I better spend a little more!". I still use it, but the auto-advance mechanism is not performing very well any more. But that's not important because now I mostly use my fountain pen anyway which must be 5 years older.

Regards
Max

(My phone got the colors very wrong, the fountain pen is not burgundy but dark brown!)