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• PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  /#6 because I need all that extra eraser

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• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would suggest that the Dixon Ticonderoga is the most reliable, most cost-efficient, and easiest-to-use writing utinsil in the history of humanity.*

  Each other option has more points of potential failure and additional complexities over the Ticonderoga. While more complicated tools may net you some improvement in writing style or sharpness, they are massive trade-offs in more basic areas.

  This would be much the same question if it were “what car would you drive for the rest of your life” between fancy ones like Ferraris and Lambos to cheaper, more reliable ones like Corollas and Civics. Everyone likes the look of the Ferrari – but the only car for the rest of your life? It’s got to be reliable, or you’re going nowhere. You want to be able to keep driving.

  The Ticonderoga guarantees you can keep writing.

  *intentionally overselling it for humor. But it is a nice, simple, good-quality pencil.

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• binom@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  none of the above of i may. i choose this:

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  • peteyestee@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hott

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• Jerb322@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  8. I like the Zebra.Got em a Dollar Tree or one of the Dollar stores.

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• peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  7. Lightweight and reliable.

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  • Baguette@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also super cheap. I think last time i bought 50 for 6 usd and Im still using that box

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    • peteypete420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol i bought that same box and yes, like 43 of them still unused.

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• Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  1, I have one of them branded from my prior work, it’s an excellent pencil.

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• Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I am a simple man. I see Ticonderoga, I choose Ticonderoga

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• Krauerking@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh no… I’m that weirdo that likes the Papermate mechanicals.
  They are just so simple and reliable. You could crush one and still get it to write again if you needed too and it had the eraser (that sucked) built right in that you never used but felt good looking at it and squeezing against your thumbnail when you were bored. Just had to put better quality lead in it.

  But man Zebra makes the pens and pencil I would actually intend to use if I was planning it.

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• dechnically@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  METAL KURU TOGA MY GOAT 👑 👑 👑 🐐 🐐 🐐 🔥🔥🔥

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  • Louisoix@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes! Finally bought one about a month ago, and I’ll never go back!

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  • glinncor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The others don’t know just how good kuru togas are

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• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If it’s literally only one pencil for the rest of my life, probably the GraphGear 1000 since it would probably last the longest. If I can continue using multiple copies of the same kind of pencil, then it would be number 2 since that would be the most versatile and available one to use.

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• thespcicifcocean@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  reject mechanical, embrace wood.

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• Siethron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  8 that style was lucky for me in my college years.

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• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You missed an option.

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  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Blocky and stacky BOIS gang united

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• Draegur@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pentel.

  Always.

  I prefer the p20x series personally but just about every mech pencil I’ve ever used from them has been excellent

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  • olafurp@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I had a pentel pen and it was just amazing. Very good for finger spinning

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  • ilikecoffee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I have two twist-erase 3’s and I’ve never looked back. I love them so much.

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• letsgo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As long as it Just Writes™ I don’t care. I want to pick it up, and I want to write. I don’t want to try writing only to find it’s dried up and I have to scribble on some other bit of paper before it comes back to life. Now OK if I’ve left the lid off then that’s my bad, but if I haven’t then it should just flipping work.

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• iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Graphgear 1000, without a doubt. Such a great pencil, and I love that it is weighted. It feels so much more natural writing/drawing, at least to me, with the Graphgear.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The issue I have with it is it’s not built well. I’ve seen it break before from just normal use.

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• Modern_medicine_isnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Number 2 is the only one that can write effectively on wood. I may not build a lot, but when I have tried to use a mechanical pencil for marking wood, it was a total fail.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  7

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• BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wtf is this shit? No Rotring. No Alvin. No Koh-i-Noor. I guess I have to take the GraphGear, but it’s under duress.

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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No K&E either. Which for any draftsperson, ex or current, is a heretical omission.

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    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How could I forget K&E. Nice slide rules, too.

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  • pineapplelover@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The rotring is nice but I feel like the quality has gone downhill. That being said, it looks very nice.

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    • sockenklaus@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Kinda off-topic but I have a Rotring fountain pen that looks nice but writing with it is really a sad experience…

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• HatchetHaro@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i love my kuru toga, but i don’t really write much anymore. i do still like doing sketches in my sketchbook, so either 1 or 3

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• mrslt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They’re all wrong. I don’t see a Blackwing up there.

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• prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Anyone who picks #7 is a freak

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  • rekabis@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I find myself inordinately amused by the unsolicited vitriol of your comment. Sounds like you have a lot to unpack with that particular model.

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  • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Thank you.

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• HexagonSun@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  #2

  We’ve taken way too many things that don’t need to be plastic and made them plastic

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  • ilikecoffee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yeah but with mechanical pencils you can buy one and have it for years, only just buying the occasional pack of leads… Saves the trees ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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  • random_character_a@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    +1

    never fails

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    made them plastic

    #1 is all metal. Retractable tip. Bought one after Adam Savage reviewed them.

    #2 is definitely the best long-term option, but it’s really nice not to have to constantly sharpen while you’re doing some intricate work.

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• SuperApples@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  After 25 years of writing Japanese and trying many cheap and expensive options… 「Zebra Clip-on multi」 is my forever pencil/pen(s) now.

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• Pulptastic@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No pencils. Let the record stand, cross off mistakes with a single strikethrough like a gentleman.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Just gimme the damn wood pencil, #2

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• BayKek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  5

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• Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  2

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  2

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• Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  A pen.

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