please keep doing what you do😊

Great review.

@ma-mo

5 сағат бұрын

@@mamadetaslimtorabally7363 Thanks!

Nice! GIVE IT HERE!! haha. Fifty cents was an absolute steal.

@ma-mo

29 күн бұрын

@@Reefdevil Ha! Pry it from my cold dead hands etc etc.

What a great find! I remember those distinctively but I had that exact Pentel P205 that you have. It was a work horse that got me through college and many blue books. I preferred the Pentel due to the removable clip which always bothered me when writing.

@ma-mo

29 күн бұрын

@@pdt4776 Good point! Even if I yanked the clip out, the barrel would still have that lumpy deformity.

@DinnerForkTongue

28 күн бұрын

The good old P205 is downright immortal. It deserves just as much recognition as the classic transparent Bic Cristal.

@ma-mo

26 күн бұрын

@@DinnerForkTongue Okay, you talked me into a p209 (and friends).

@DinnerForkTongue

26 күн бұрын

@@ma-mo ONE OF US! ONE OF US! hahaha See if you can get all sizes in a bundle, should come out cheaper per unit.

The History is what makes it interesting, especially for us who don't know anything. Anything you can get for $.050 these days is a bargain. Thanks for sharing ..take care

@DinnerForkTongue

29 күн бұрын

Imagine when in the future, people say "I found this old pencil for just 50 dollars" like we use 50 cents now.

Wow, what a find. Vintage but modern, you can easily restore it to full usability by replacing that eraser with a newer Pentel or Pilot one. They're sold in batches for fairly cheap, and in this standard diameter too. A bingo right there IMO. Regarding the Japanese origins, early before the 70s Japan was what China was known until the late 2010s: the junk makers that Western companies outsourced production to for cost reduction reasons. Their product quality started out not very impressive, and it took a few decades for them to be known for good, well-made, high-precision industrial goods. Sure, there were brands like Pentel that defied this definition, but they're the exception that proves the rule. The similarity with the P209 Sharp is no coincidence, I bet: the combo of "yellow drafting pencil" and "0.9mm lead" is iconic. Though I can appreciate Berol experimenting by designing the slightly shorter lead sleeve. I've heard a decent number of complaints that Pentel's 4mm sleeve is too long, and some people even dremel-cut them to be shorter. It's funny but fitting that 0.9 was known as "thin". For the lead gamut we have as standard now, it's on the thick and sturdy side, sure, but when you stop and think, that's still a bit thinner than a medium point ballpoint pen, which is in itself reasonably thin. You can make some pretty fine writing, sketching and detailing with 0.9 still, at least within the realm of regular paper, and especially if you rotate the pacer in your hand so the lead wears out evenly. As a matter of taste, it has firmly cemented itself as my favourite lead caliber. Depending on how I wear out the point, I can write thin, I can write bold and brush-like (perfect for dynamic Japanese handwriting), and even in days when my motor control is shot, I don't need to fear breaking the lead since it's so solid.

@ma-mo

29 күн бұрын

@@DinnerForkTongue I don't happen to own a P209, but I remembered that one pencil in that series was a mustard-yellow. There was surely some cross-pollinating going on there.

@DinnerForkTongue

29 күн бұрын

@@ma-mo Yep, that would be the OG P209. The colors were standard for the lead sizes in the Sharp line before Pentel made more varied ones. P203 = brown P204 = forest green P205 = black P207 = pale blue P209 = mustard yellow Even today you cannot find a Sharp in a lead size that doesn't match these specific colors, with VERY few super rare historical exceptions, such as a blue P209 from what I remember reading in Nimrodd's blog (a treasure trove of references for fans of the Pentel Sharp).