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rip shark pen
15 Jul 2019 01:30 pmI broke my shark pen! I didn't think I was very hard on it - in fact I never carried it with me out of the house. But I tightened the barrel to the nib section too hard and they're two different textures of plastic, which I suppose always weakens them a bit. This is possibly the third cheap pen I've cracked by overtightening the threads? Or fourth. I tend to be over-enthusiastic in the use of force when doing things with my hands (people complain that I type 'violently' as well).
I'd better order a couple of spares next time just in case. I was planning to send one to my sister anyway, so I guess it's not an extra order.
In other writing implement news, I bought a clutch pencil (otherwise known as a lead holder) that uses 2mm thick leads a few months ago for drawing, a very cheap and basic Staedtler Mars technico (review from someone who seems similarly minded), but it's actually useful for all kinds of writing.
I'm a longtime mechanical pencil user and I used to do almost all my drawing with 0.5 mm ones as a teenager when I threw myself into pencil drawing as a stress relief. A box of art pencils in varying hardnesses does work better, but the convenience and the always-fine point of a good mechanical pencil won me over. I used two mechanical pencils, a Rotring Tikky and a Pilot (an early Dr Grip?) from ~1996 to ~2007, when I lost the Rotring somewhere at the university here (and then replaced it and lost the replacement... the Pilot is still around, probably because it's big and brightly-colored with a silicone comfort grip and hence harder to mislay; the Rotring was more a professional draftsperson's tool, and indeed, my mom became a devotee while working as a draftsperson at an architectural firm before she went to grad school).
A problem I always had with mechanical pencils was the leads breaking or sliding back into the casing and having to be pulled out and replaced, which obviously is more common the thinner they are. The fatter leads in clutch pencils don't do this, although at 2mm you already will want to sharpen the lead a bit more. And when you get to thicker clutch pencils, there are more colored leads and even glass-marking leads in 3.15 mm. (I'd kinda like to get some that fit pastels, but that size are called pencil holders or crayon holders and they're not quite as common. I hate the way pastels get all over my hands.) Also they're cute and stylish enough that I haven't bought one yet because I can't decide which one I want more.
I'd better order a couple of spares next time just in case. I was planning to send one to my sister anyway, so I guess it's not an extra order.
In other writing implement news, I bought a clutch pencil (otherwise known as a lead holder) that uses 2mm thick leads a few months ago for drawing, a very cheap and basic Staedtler Mars technico (review from someone who seems similarly minded), but it's actually useful for all kinds of writing.
I'm a longtime mechanical pencil user and I used to do almost all my drawing with 0.5 mm ones as a teenager when I threw myself into pencil drawing as a stress relief. A box of art pencils in varying hardnesses does work better, but the convenience and the always-fine point of a good mechanical pencil won me over. I used two mechanical pencils, a Rotring Tikky and a Pilot (an early Dr Grip?) from ~1996 to ~2007, when I lost the Rotring somewhere at the university here (and then replaced it and lost the replacement... the Pilot is still around, probably because it's big and brightly-colored with a silicone comfort grip and hence harder to mislay; the Rotring was more a professional draftsperson's tool, and indeed, my mom became a devotee while working as a draftsperson at an architectural firm before she went to grad school).
A problem I always had with mechanical pencils was the leads breaking or sliding back into the casing and having to be pulled out and replaced, which obviously is more common the thinner they are. The fatter leads in clutch pencils don't do this, although at 2mm you already will want to sharpen the lead a bit more. And when you get to thicker clutch pencils, there are more colored leads and even glass-marking leads in 3.15 mm. (I'd kinda like to get some that fit pastels, but that size are called pencil holders or crayon holders and they're not quite as common. I hate the way pastels get all over my hands.) Also they're cute and stylish enough that I haven't bought one yet because I can't decide which one I want more.
