Are you still using your mechanical pencils?

[kap]

Doing some review for an upcoming job qualifying exam at the school district, I am writing with my 12 year old mechanical pencils on lined notebook papers. Yup, no MS Word.

[macphanatic]

Yes. Use them for meetings and client visits. Mine are more of the engineering type, made by Staedtler.

[OWC Jamie]

Yes, every day.

[BernDog]

A lot more since I discovered .09mm pencils and leads. Until recently all I knew about were 5s and 7s. Too easy to press too hard on those and break the leads. I had been opting for wooden pencils for years. No pens in math or music!

[Mac1337]

Never liked them. Lead always broke and eventually ran out. I have a ton of empty ones laying around but I like pencils.

[N-OS X-tasy!]

BernDog wrote:
A lot more since I discovered .09mm pencils and leads. Until recently all I knew about were 5s and 7s. Too easy to press too hard on those and break the leads.

Ditto. I wish I'd discovered 0.9mm pencils years ago. I use one at work every day for marking up construction prints.

Having said that, the pen holder on my desk houses a mechanical pencil I have owned since I was in seventh grade. Still works, too.

[NewtonMP2100]

......only when my mechanical pen is in the shop.....

[olnacl]

Me too

[davec]

Yes, I use a mechanical pencil (0.7) daily. Working in K-12 schools there are tasks where a pencil is the best tool for the job.

Dave

[mrbigstuff]

staedtler! as a kid, my dad used to give me his when he bought the next new model. memories.

next you will be asking about Letraset.