Comments on: Sharpie liquid pencil

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

According to the Office Depot page for them, they are:

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/730116/Sharpie-Liquid-Pencil-05-mm-Opaque/?cm_mmc=Mercent-_-Google-_-Pens_Pencils_and_Markers-_-730116#firstTab

By: sworm

sworm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To all the people who use pencils/charcoal to draw and are worried about smudging:

spray the page with some hairspray after you’re finished. Voila: permanent.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Picked one up at Office Depot today. It writes like the cheapest throw away pen you have ever used. Unless you hold it perfectly vertical the line is thin and inconsistent. Also the barrel giggles when the tip is extended. The ink does give the appearance of a pencil line. After about one hour the line is permanent not the 24 hours they claim. I am very disappointed in this pen. I expected more from Sharpie.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You just did.

By: Tony Moore

Tony Moore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

interest: piqued.

By: Brainspore

Brainspore — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I’d like to know if they produce archival-quality marks like a regular pencil. We still have great-quality graphite sketches from the renaissance but the ink from most modern pens fades pretty badly within a couple of decades (if not sooner).

Too bad we’ll probably have to wait for several years to find out.

By: Jason Rizos

Jason Rizos — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I thought we used pencils because we liked how they felt on the page? If it’s a pen that turns to pencil when you write and you really need that function, then really, a pencil is fine.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Not a bad idea. I always preferred using pencils to pens, specifically because I found that using a pen meant that I would be scratching out a lot, and it was must much easier to erase stuff. I don’t see why the pen so much more popular. I use a mechanical pencil, and mostly only use a pen when I’m signing something, or filling out a cheque. An erasable pen that didn’t suck would be nice. I’ve seen those EraserMate that others talk about, and they are worse in almost every way (not truly erasable, ink smears like crazy)

By: irksome

irksome — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, but can it knit me a ham sammich?

By: daemonsquire

daemonsquire — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“Hits stores in fall” has already happened: I just picked up a couple of these last week at Office Max, shopping for the Kuru Toga pencil Bill Barol was extolling last week, which, it turns out, they didn’t have on hand. I bought a few of Bic’s less attractively designed version of the same automatically advancing contraption, and so far, I like them. The Sharpie pencil, on the other hand, captured my imagination while still in the packaging, but ended up writing like any old dull ball point pen. Except, of course, it erases. And I guess that’s neat. The box said permanent after one day. I haven’t been conducting any tests, because, really, it’s not the most pleasant thing to write with. I remember erasable ball points back in the 80s, and I’m willing to grant that they’ve prob’ly advanced ink tech in the years since. So, maybe these are better. They do erase pretty cleanly… I guess my beef is that I use a pencil more as a drawing tool, than as a writing tool, and this doesn’t fit the bill. And when I’m writing, I prefer a finer, crisper, darker line from my pen.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I went and bought this today, two packs of two, actually. I don’t see it getting cut off too much, but you do have to apply pressure. And it isn’t as smooth as it claims. If you look closely, there are little spots missing. I think this could be fixed if they made the tip just a bit thinner, it’s too round. Other than that, I like it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

i have it and it doesn;t really work

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I got one yesterday. I was liking it until my son notice if he rub his hand across what he wrote it rub off who need an eraser :(

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I think it would be nice… I prefer the feel of a pen in my hand to a pencil, and I write really hard and deep, so broken leads are always a problem. I’m not super crazy about it, but if I got one cheap, I’d probably use it as long as it’s as good as it says.

By: MrGuilt

MrGuilt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

At least once a month I have to say this:

the worst thing about the erasable pens in the 80s was being left-handed. This meant you dragged your hand through ink that never quite tried. The edge of my hand would be blue by day’s end.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

yup. I have used it on tests at school and had no problems.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You are write on.

By: Ambiguity

Ambiguity — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

the worst thing about the erasable pens in the 80s was being left-handed. This meant you dragged your hand through ink that never quite tried. The edge of my hand would be blue by day’s end.

Well, you could always do what Leonardo d V did: write backwards.

I’m a right-hander, so I never really got anything out of it (except to amuse my kids when I grew up and started having them), but when I was a kid I taught myself to write backwards. It’s really not too hard, or at least I didn’t find it so.

By: Man On Pink Corner

Man On Pink Corner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Frixion is awesome, so I’d have high hopes for this pen as well. A real pen that can be erased completely is a thing that feels very right, somehow. (No, an Erasermate doesn’t count — those are/were complete crap.)

This one will have the obvious advantage that it can be used to write checks.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I just received my “liquid pencil” in the mail yesterday. The writing quality is so bad that I’m sending it to the Sharpie Consumer Affairs address on the back to tell them I don’t want it. Check the reviews an Amazon. It’s a terrible product.

By: Man On Pink Corner

Man On Pink Corner — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Specifically, the nice thing about the Frixion is that after about 10 seconds, it’s smudge-proof. The only way to erase it is by heating the ink, and when it erases, it erases completely, without leaving a trace. There is nothing else like it on the market.

By: george57l

george57l — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah that ink really should have tried harder.

(Sorry – I’ll get my coat)

By: dhalgren

dhalgren — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Erasermates were awful! Didn’t matter if you were a righty or a lefty. That shit smeared all over the page, on your hands, and (obviously it was the late 70′s early 80s) all over Member’s Only jackets. I’m telling you those damn pens leaked too! I have a long list of ruined Member’s Only jackets, OP shorts, and other such regalia from Erasermates. As a kid in elementary school I was obsessed with writing implements. When my dad gave me my own Cross pen & pencil set I thought I was going to burst. Every type of new pen or pencil that would come out I’d have to buy and try out. Erasermates sounded awesome until you actually used them. What an inkstained and smeared mess!

I do look forward to this Sharpie though! Can’t wait to buy a bunch of these for my Dungeons & Dragons crew.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pencils still smudge after 3 days.

By: dole

dole — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

To add to the Erasermate bitching: left-handed, and my grade-school gifted program REQUIRED you use erasable pen because I believe they thought it was more mature than using pencils. Made all my work looked like gifted shit.

By: Avram / Moderator

Avram / Moderator — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t know if “can erase it any time you want” is an improvement. Things that can be erased can generally also be smudged. When I used to sketch in pencil, the early sketches in my sketchbook would turn into smeary clouds of graphite by the time I’d finished the last few pages.

The idea of a writing tool that’s correctable for a short while, then sets and becomes permanent to prevent smudging, would have excited the heck out of me 20 years ago. (Since then, I’ve just moved on to doing most of my sketching in pen and/or marker.)

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Erases like a pencil but becomes permanent after 3 days?

Hmmm… not that corporations would ever release toxic crap to the public or anything, but does anyone know what this shit is made of?

By: Gloria

Gloria — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I remember in high school nearly crying after finding my sketched portrait of Jacques-Louis David had become almost unrecognizably smudged. Sigh. Maybe I LOVED pen-and-ink drawings for that reason.

Anyway, I just found that having to choose between pencil and pen made me more decisive and cautious when it came to using pen. The single application I can think of this erasable pen (assuming it writes just as well as they’re saying and smudges as little as the fastest drying pen ink) is filling out applications. Doing “practise” runs of, say, tax returns and legal forms has always been tedious.

By: Kieran Mullen

Kieran Mullen — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Article research fail.

Sharpie is a line. So Sharpie can’t sell it. (Picture caption)

The pens are produced by Sanford.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanford_%28writing_products%29

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

well its not the same because the frixon bleeds like crazy leaks and never becomes permanent