#6 because I need all that extra eraser
- I like the Zebra.Got em a Dollar Tree or one of the Dollar stores.
METAL KURU TOGA MY GOAT 👑 👑 👑 🐐 🐐 🐐 🔥🔥🔥
Yes! Finally bought one about a month ago, and I’ll never go back!
The others don’t know just how good kuru togas are
I would suggest that the Dixon Ticonderoga is the most reliable, most cost-efficient, and easiest-to-use writing utinsil in the history of humanity.*
Each other option has more points of potential failure and additional complexities over the Ticonderoga. While more complicated tools may net you some improvement in writing style or sharpness, they are massive trade-offs in more basic areas.
This would be much the same question if it were “what car would you drive for the rest of your life” between fancy ones like Ferraris and Lambos to cheaper, more reliable ones like Corollas and Civics. Everyone likes the look of the Ferrari – but the only car for the rest of your life? It’s got to be reliable, or you’re going nowhere. You want to be able to keep driving.
The Ticonderoga guarantees you can keep writing.
*intentionally overselling it for humor. But it is a nice, simple, good-quality pencil.
none of the above of i may. i choose this:
You missed an option.
Number 2 is the only one that can write effectively on wood. I may not build a lot, but when I have tried to use a mechanical pencil for marking wood, it was a total fail.
- Lightweight and reliable.
Also super cheap. I think last time i bought 50 for 6 usd and Im still using that box
I am a simple man. I see Ticonderoga, I choose Ticonderoga. I like ships and I cannot lie
Pentel.
Always.
I prefer the p20x series personally but just about every mech pencil I’ve ever used from them has been excellent
I have two twist-erase 3’s and I’ve never looked back. I love them so much.
Wtf is this shit? No Rotring. No Alvin. No Koh-i-Noor. I guess I have to take the GraphGear, but it’s under duress.
1, I have one of them branded from my prior work, it’s an excellent pencil.
#2
We’ve taken way too many things that don’t need to be plastic and made them plastic
Yeah but with mechanical pencils you can buy one and have it for years, only just buying the occasional pack of leads… Saves the trees ¯_(ツ)_/¯
+1
never fails
made them plastic
#1 is all metal. Retractable tip. Bought one after Adam Savage reviewed them.
#2 is definitely the best long-term option, but it’s really nice not to have to constantly sharpen while you’re doing some intricate work.
Oh no… I’m that weirdo that likes the Papermate mechanicals.
They are just so simple and reliable. You could crush one and still get it to write again if you needed too and it had the eraser (that sucked) built right in that you never used but felt good looking at it and squeezing against your thumbnail when you were bored. Just had to put better quality lead in it.But man Zebra makes the pens and pencil I would actually intend to use if I was planning it.
8 that style was lucky for me in my college years.
