Comments on: The "Perfect Pencil"

By: Ping Kee

Ping Kee — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:53:00 +0000

I stand corrected. Your pencil blog is awesome!

By: Andy Welfle

Andy Welfle — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:22:00 +0000

Sorta – I’ve been a bad blogger the last few months. I’m getting a few samples in the mail soon, so I hope I can get back into the groove soon!

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:06:00 +0000

You ARE pencil blogger!

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:04:00 +0000

I haven’t used the Sharpie product, but the ones that look just like #2 pencils are freakin’ amazing. They don’t last very long though. Sometimes they turn up in 3 packs at the local pharmacy, but they are a real hit or miss item to locate.

By: Ray Perkins

Ray Perkins — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:49:00 +0000

Why would the Pretentious Platinum Plated Pencil have an eraser, anyway? Would the target market admit to ever making a mistake?

By: Andy Welfle

Andy Welfle — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:40:00 +0000

Oh noes! Yeah, I need to mess with my site a bit more. My pencil blog is over at http://woodclinched.com. (:

By: Ping Kee

Ping Kee — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:47:00 +0000

I didn’t find anything on your site that indicates you are a pencil blogger. All I can say is that I’m disappointed… :)

By: TheOven

TheOven — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:20:00 +0000

I had a hard time getting them in Canada. I ended up getting a japanese friend to send me a pair. Amazone said they c/wouldn’t send them to Canada and I could find no retailers here.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:18:00 +0000

I’ve tried the Sharpie Liquid pencils and they are shite. Terrible flow. They leave blank spots and globs of “ink” that smudge easily. Totally useless, though I’ve heard people like them for plotters.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:59:00 +0000

Oooh, it was platinum? Well I’ll get two!

By: Ethan Holman

Ethan Holman — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:44:00 +0000

Actual perfect pencil:
http://www.stationeryart.com/staedtler-staedtler-mars-technico-lead-holder-pencil-p-691.html

At least for me. Got it for an architecture class, now use it for everything. It is every kind of pencil, incorporates it’s own sharpener, albeit not as good as a standalone pointer, but functional. It doesn’t include an eraser, but a separate eraser is always better than a little pencil nipple eraser anyway. Love that thing.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Ooh, .3mm, I am in…

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:56:00 +0000

You’re right. I went to Amazon and typed “Perfect Pencil” into the search engine and there are several less expensive versions of the exact thing-a-mabob. I am now thinking this would be an amazing stocking stuff (not the super high priced version) for my teenager who is into sharp pencils.

Also, if you haven’t seen the graphite gel pens – I searched and searched for an image or link for this and I don’t know what has happened to this product. However, every now and then I can find #2 graphite gel pens that look just like yellow pencils but they are pens with graphite ink in them. They are eraseable. They are fantastic for school kids because the never need sharpening. This is the closest I can find but it’s not a trick thing like this implies, it’s just a normal pen that has graphite in it:

http://www.perpetualkid.com/faux-pencil-pen-set.aspx

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 19:30:00 +0000

Click the middle link. That one has a sharpener. No eraser, mores the pity, but for us plebeians, it is an acceptable alternative to the platinum plated pencil dohookie of glory.

By: dannyg

dannyg — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 18:17:00 +0000

The aroma of those refills is heaven. Not something the internets can convey.

By: lz4005

lz4005 — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:39:00 +0000

The derp is strong in these comments.
Its a platinum plated piece of functional jewelry.
There’s a plastic version for $15 and a steel version for under $50. And they fit normal pencils. You don’t have to use the (admittedly overpriced) refills.

By: TheOven

TheOven — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:05:00 +0000

I use a Kuru Toga from Japan. It’s a mechanical pencil that rotates the lead as you draw/write so as to always have a sharp tip against the paper. It works really well – too well sometimes as you have to watch you don’t rip the paper.

http://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-Kuru-Toga-Auto-Lead-Rotation-Mechanical-Pencil-0.3-mm-Black-Body/pd/3215

By: TheOven

TheOven — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:02:00 +0000

I think the point is that the swanky eraser / sharpener is the desirable bit. A pencil extender is for poor people. (I have two)

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:20:00 +0000

Just one example of why we need to extend the Bush-era tax cuts. Just think of the poor $250 pencils that might not get bought if we squandered that money on inferior pencils for public-school kids.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:28:00 +0000

Sifn’t. I have an app to make up that crap for me

By: welcomeabored

welcomeabored — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 15:07:00 +0000

‘Yossarian was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.’

By: Deidzoeb

Deidzoeb — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:55:00 +0000

Americans can’t afford to return to the higher tax rates we paid under Clinton or Reagan or earlier decades when the economy prospered. We need to ensure that job creators have enough money. How can we afford to create jobs without that capital? After I finish writing this message with my $240 pencil and send it to my transcriptionist to post it on your world wide web site, I will dash off my report about the healthy market for three-figure pencils, and then I’ll set down the details proving why job creators need tax breaks.

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:44:00 +0000

This seems a bit more reasonable http://www.amazon.com/Faber-Castell-119037-Castell-Perfect-Pencil/dp/B000KT8RSI/ref=pd_sbs_op_4 but after reading http://www.amazon.com/How-Sharpen-Pencils-Theoretical-Contractors/dp/1612190405/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1354718586&sr=1-1&keywords=pencil+sharpening+book I send my pencils out to be sharpened by a professional.

By: Layne

Layne — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:26:00 +0000

Actually, there is a product like the one you’re describing. I used one now and then in art class.

It’s basically a metal sleeve that clips on the stubs of pencils and extends the life of your implement. I dont think it has a swanky eraser /sharpener, but you can spend the extra $240 on something to cushion the blow to your ego.

http://www.amazon.com/EM-Peanpole-Wood-Pencil-Extender/dp/B006CQRRPW/ref=sr_1_13?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1354717426&sr=1-13&keywords=pencil+extender

http://www.amazon.com/Faber-Castell-Extender-And-Pencil-Black/dp/B000WL2S0W/ref=sr_1_5?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1354717426&sr=1-5&keywords=pencil+extender

http://www.amazon.com/Universal-Pencil-Lengthener-Extender-Black/dp/B005QPWZSY/ref=sr_1_2?s=office-products&ie=UTF8&qid=1354717426&sr=1-2&keywords=pencil+extender

By: DisGuest

DisGuest — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:22:00 +0000

Team Sharpie.

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:20:00 +0000

Maybe this is because I use them for writing (and increasingly rarely, at that) not artistic purposes where variations in line and shade are much more valuable; but pencils have always struck my as a relatively solved problem. A mechanical model using .5mm or smaller lead of decent durability will give you a consistent, not-to-smudgy line, and never require sharpening, and can carry enough lead internally to last for months to years of steady use.

Totally unromantic; but your basic Pentel p205 .5mm costs $5, less in quantity, and will probably last longer than you can avoid losing it (unless exposed to high voltage arc discharges, so don’t do that, learned that the hard way).

By: fuzzyfuzzyfungus

fuzzyfuzzyfungus — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:13:00 +0000

C’mon, man, I’m not paying for that until you come up with a story about how some Ethnic (in a totally sensitive and ecologically responsible way) supplier lovingly and artisinally produced it from some plant fiber that they were using before it was cool. If you can handle that, we’ll talk.

By: ChickieD

ChickieD — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:12:00 +0000

That is a really purdy pencil but, it’s a pencil, right? $200? I suspect this is one of those products that will always be on sale for 60% off and is not intended to sell at the supposed list price. So, you’re like, I got this really snazzy pencil for ONLY $80. Instead of, yeah, I just got ripped for $80 on a freakin’ pencil.

I wish they would sell just the barrel part and you could stick that on regular pencil. That would be really useful. I’d pay, like, $30 for such a dealy bob.

By: Kimmo

Kimmo — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:43:00 +0000

If you like the pencil, I have a ream of paper you might be interested in.

Just hold on while I knock up a wanky box for it and slap on a $1257 price tag.

By: arikol

arikol — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 13:32:00 +0000

I would literally pay TENS OF DOLLARS for that. Well, maybe ten to twenty, anyway. Mainly because the integrated sharpener might be nice.

$250?
riiiiigght