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| I am not a pencil enthusiast, but I do have a favorite pencil. I think it is a Pentel, it's a Japanese made modern mechanical pencil with 0.9mm lead and a good eraser. I have to use 0.9mm because I break 0.5 and 0.7 too frequently.
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| I mostly use General Pencil Semi-Hex #2 wood case pencils but sometimes I use an old Bell System Durolite mechanical pencil with 0.036" #2 lead. I was a Ticonderoga fan and also a Mirado fan until both the manufacturing for those pencils moved offshore. Now I only buy General Pencil or sometimes Musgrave pencils.
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Other loves are printers/scanners/copiers, A/Cs
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site.
Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the international date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.
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Pretty, please no more Chinese failure.
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| This is a pencil for writing, not for art.
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I"m don't speak English well, and rely on online translating to write in this site.
Please forgive me if my choice of my words looks like offensive, while that isn't my intention.
I only working with the international date format (dd.mm.yyyy).
I lives in Israel, which is a 220-240V, 50hz country.
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I hardly ever use wooden pencils, and when I do, they're the rectangular carpenter pencils that you sharpen with a pocket knife.
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THIS. Especially since I work in the building trades.
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| An update... A family member got me a pack of Mitubishi 9850s for Christmas and wow are they the best pencil I have ever used!
The pencil itself looks super ornate - It has a dark red thick coating of lacquer, and silver foil print letters!
It sharpens extremely smoothing, at the same level as Dixon Ticonderoga Black pencils (which as I read somewhere are made of basswood, though take it with as grain of salt). The lead itself is a very nice dark HB color, and it lasts a very long time!
Soon I will be trying to the Misubishi 9852EW and 9800, as well as the Tombow 2558 (often compared to the Mitsubishi 9850) and 8900 which is supposed to last a very long time.
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If you have any questions regarding fluorescent lamps, feel free to ask me! I will do my best to answer it!
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Filament LEDs. Both a blessing and a curse.
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I typically use mechanical pencils... in school, the white-eraser BIC 0.7 or 0.9 works well for me, but for home I use a Skilcraft. 0.7 with eraser hidden behind the cap. I think it's the best pencil I've ever used. My friend, whose dad works at an engineering firm, used to bring some home from work daily and would give them to friends and family (including myself). I've been using mine for 7 yrs now... https://www.officedepot.com/a/products/494260/This, but in black and 0.7. |
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| Maxim, I'm glad to hear you like the Skilcraft pencil! I've been thinking of trying one of those myself. I work in government, yet we actually never buy Skilcraft products for some reason, so I've never used one. The only Skilcraft product I've used is the U.S. Government ballpoint pens they have at the Post Office.
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| They've all held up well- in those seven years, they look brand new. All they need is a new eraser (I dislike how thin they are) and some lead from time to time. They really bring out that "bold" look that I love. Pricey, but certainly worth it IMO.
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