Whichever i have which is usually neither

I prefer the way pencil looks when i first write, but 3 months later it looks like shit




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12/6/2010 8:41:24 PM

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"so now it's almost exclusively: "

Agreed.

12/6/2010 10:12:10 PM

pens only. this ain't gradeschool no more.

*in college i exclusively used one of those .005 drafting pencils with the knurled grip that weighed like 2 pounds.

12/6/2010 10:14:49 PM

Cross Century

4/12/2011 8:19:04 PM

used to raid the supply closet on delivery day for uniballs and g2's

4/12/2011 8:20:28 PM

My girlfriend gave me a custom-engraved CROSS pen for Christmas. I love it, but it seems not... enough for 60 bucks.

4/12/2011 9:43:04 PM

4/12/2011 9:43:55 PM

give me a zebra or give me death

4/12/2011 9:48:13 PM

Pilot G-2 07


Blue is the new professional colour of choice in the industry...

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4/12/2011 9:49:25 PM

^^
LOL, I just clicked your user info and you're from Dunn.

4/12/2011 9:49:59 PM

why yes i am.

you know where that is?

4/12/2011 9:51:46 PM

NEAR ERWIN.

4/12/2011 9:52:24 PM

Grew up in Clinton.

4/12/2011 9:52:44 PM

A caran d'ache mech. pencil and pen, at the moment

4/12/2011 9:52:55 PM

clinton...oh lord?

i remember cruising the circle (i think thats what it was called iirc)

4/12/2011 9:54:31 PM

http://www.jetpens.com/index.php/product/view/products_id/3219

4/12/2011 9:56:11 PM

^^
Yeah....ever go to Lake Artesia? haha

4/12/2011 9:56:30 PM

I'm not a teenager anymore. Pen.

4/12/2011 9:57:07 PM

BWAAHAH yes.

i think we went every friday or saturday for like 6 months my junior year.

4/12/2011 9:57:59 PM

Sounds about right. We probably hooked up....just kidding d7freestyler.

4/12/2011 9:59:24 PM

oh man i forgot about that place.

^we may have went there around the same time.

did you know a guy named brian turlington by chance?

[Edited on April 12, 2011 at 10:01 PM. Reason : fedfs]

4/12/2011 10:00:17 PM

Not ringing a bell.

4/12/2011 10:05:01 PM

figure id ask. when i was a freshman in college (or maybe sophmore?) a girlfriend of mine dated him for a while.

4/12/2011 10:06:26 PM

Oh look, it's Joie. The girl who ignored my fb wall post

4/12/2011 10:14:18 PM

when did you post on there?

4/12/2011 10:16:34 PM

IDK... a week or two ago?

4/13/2011 9:27:09 PM

The first two posts sum up my progression, minus the calling the manufacturer thing

4/14/2011 9:12:25 AM

If you arent using a pen for cross words, you're a malignant cunt

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4/14/2011 9:20:13 AM

Pencils

I fuck up a lot

4/14/2011 9:25:24 AM

I prefer mechanical pencils for notes, just in a sense of if I write very quickly with a ballpoint/ink pen, my writing gets slurred.
pens/pencils for drawing, usually pencils, unless I'm just doodling
old standard wooden pencils are best for drawing or tracing on to fabric though

4/14/2011 9:28:11 AM

qntmfred said:

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"i had a mechanical pencil i really liked, and when it got discontinued i even called the manufacturer to order an extra box shortly after that i somehow became pen only, and have never looked back."

The first pencils my mom ever got me for school were wooden Empire #2s. Empire merged with Berol in the late '80s, then Sanford bought them in the late '90s. Sanford discontinued almost all of the Empire pencil lines, so I went a very long time without using one. Five years ago, I found a collector who had a few and bought them from him. I won't use them, though. I just like still having them.

My pencil of choice now is mechanical, the Pentel Quicker Clicker. The current model has a plastic tip and molded rubber grip, but I prefer the original metal tip without grip. You can order the originals through Pentel still, but I don't know how long the stock will hold out.

4/14/2011 9:28:45 AM

to reiterate

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4/14/2011 9:31:27 AM

I was a loyal customer of Berol Black Warriors back in middle school when pencil fighting was awesome.

in high school, having taken many drafting classes in advance of being an engineering major, I was mechanical pencil only, and this carried all the way through college, even though I didn't end up in a real engineering major, and through my first 8 years of post college cubicle work-- lots of network diagrams drawn on engineering paper.

Now that i've had my management lobotomy and don't do anything useful anymore, I rock pens, the pilot G2 being my weapon of choice.

4/14/2011 9:33:34 AM

pen

4/14/2011 9:36:07 AM

^^I have some of those in my desk right now!!!

Mirado yes?


These are the only pencils I will use.

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4/14/2011 9:36:52 AM

then



then



then

4/14/2011 9:36:58 AM

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"^^I have some of those in my desk right now!!! Mirado yes?"

yeah, now i'm showing my age. Back in the 80's when i was a kid, the mirado black warrior was made by Berol, and later it was sanford, and now apparently papermate.

http://community.pencils.com/collectors/pencil-library/mirado-pencils-rich-history-eagle-berol-sanford-and-now-papermate

I didn't realize they dated back to the early 1900's.

4/14/2011 9:42:17 AM

rotring tikky mechanical pencil 0.5 for homework

uniball vision elite 0.5 for almost everything else

the mighty TICONDEROGA for pencil fighting

4/14/2011 9:45:03 AM

dude, i don't know if the ticonderoga can stand up to the might of a black warrior. The metal portion at the top is far too malleable to pose much of a threat. Also, the hexagonal structure of the yellow pencil is definitely a weakness when facing a round pencil.

4/14/2011 9:49:42 AM

the black warrior is a beast

very hard to break

4/14/2011 9:51:20 AM

Super Gel - Fashion Gel by The Write Dudes

I LOVE LOVE LOVE writing in glittery gel and then for official work stuff, like the checks I write etc I use Blue BIC Round Stick

4/14/2011 9:59:14 AM

i was introduced to the papermate xtend through my office, which keeps these in stock. love this pen.

4/14/2011 11:49:24 AM

^When I was in charge of office supplies those were what I always kept in stock.

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4/14/2011 11:54:44 AM

¿Porque no los dos?

4/14/2011 12:38:25 PM