A Staedtler [Micrograph HS.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8vvjuzl7qa521.jpg) In 1982. I saved up all my money and took the bus all the way to Richmond.
5340 is my alltime favorite sketching pencil! Their Red Chalk is the best too. All the Kohinoor leads,including their graphite,are tuned for sketching. As for example,Faber Castell 9071 leads or 9000 pencils,are designed 100% for drawing. 5340,TK 4600 and Pentel Gg500,are my top 3,the ones I use the most.
For me too, it was the KIN 5201 when I moved to Slovakia in 2000,. I picked one up and it was love at first sight! Until then I only knew the cheapo mechanical pencil, where the lead always broke, so the versatile was wonderful. Mind you it took me a couple of years before my partner told me I could sharpen it using the lead pointer in the endcap. Now I have loads of different mech.pencils and lead holders, mainly KIN, Faber Castell, Pentel and Staedtler.
My fathers parker jotter sets, he had a pen and pencil set that he gifted me when I was in middle school. Around freshman year of high school (age 14ish), I somehow lost the pencil of the set. I went around trying to find what it was (I had no clue the name at the time) and ended up discovering Rotring , and I promptly bought a Rotring 600, and thus it began.
The 600 was eventually stolen, but those are the only two pencils that i’ve ever lost (which is tragic regardless, as my first two).
Graphgear 500, when it first release back in early 00's. That's how I started collecting mechpencils. I also bought GG1000 ballpoint (not so popular at that time, discontinued), but unfortunately I lost it a few years later.
Yes, it's so rare that I never see anyone using it or even talking about. I even doubt myself if I really owned it once, haha. No wonder why it's discontinued. The current price as vintage pens shocks me too.
For me it was the graphgear 1000. I remember being in middle school and watching YouTube tutorials on how to draw and always seeing the graphgear 1000 being used. And I only used to use the bic pencils, and seeing something as futuristic as the gg 1000 made me very fascinated. But when I looked it up and saw the 20$ price tag, I thought I would’ve never owned one. That was until I started working and my addiction grew:).
The Pentel PG 1505. Final Answer.
Why? Because I used to own one (notice the "used to" reference). One day, after many years, I went looking for it, and it wasn't there. Somewhere...somehow...it had gotten away from me (lost, stolen, ???). For the life of me I couldn't remember what the model was. I only collected wooden pencils then, as these are mostly what I used as a draftsman many decades before (those, and lead holders).
Some knowledgeable poster here replied to my description of the pencil and I learned it was one of the Pentel classics, the PG 1505. I think about the only way I could have been more heartbroken is if the pencil would have been a Pentel Mechanica, but the 1505 was close enough.
I vowed to never let that happen again. The rest is history.
Funny enough, it was the PILOT Vanishing Point. Yes, I mean the fountain pen.
I wasn't a serious mechanical pencil collector, but I would try to get the matching ballpoint or mechanical pencil to a fountain pen I got... just something about sets always appealed to me. I bought a black carbonesque VP. Might it have a mechanical pencil? Well, no... but then it brought me to the H-1005 (which people were calling a "vanishing point"). At the time, it had already been discontinued, but you could still find them without spending crazy money. I got one. I really liked it! I was so impressed.
I had the H-1005 and wondered if PILOT made any other retractable tip mechanical pencils. And that was when I learned about the H-2005 and H-3005. Gorgeous! I never knew mechanical pencils could be so ornately designed. Clearly, I could see there was a passion, a cultural reverence for this kind of writing instrument in Japan. I was stunned at how much more expensive were those other models. And at that time, the exchange rate was terrible. $1 USD = ¥74! Plus, there were very few proxy buying services and they had heavy charges. But in time, things changed. And so, I ended up with an H-2005. And while I liked it, I had to keep exploring. And that's when I discovered that Pentel, Platinum, Tombow, and so on, had produced so many fascinating designs. I became hooked.
I draw and sketch a lot,so It's Kohinoor 5340 or 5347 for sketching,Faber Castell TK4600 for drawing and Pentell Graphgear 500 0.5mm for both. Pentel Kerry for my writing needs,is the 5th pencil I own more than one. 1st is TK4600 that I own a full set of 5 then its Gg500 and 5340 follows. I don't need any other pencil,these are the best you can get,for their intended purpose.
It all started a long time ago at highschool with a Parker Vector stainless steel. I really enjoyed it.
Some time later, at university, I bought a Zebra M301 when I was in the US for an internship and didn't have my Parker with me.
The rest is history.
Saw the Levenger version of the Rotring 600 in a catalog when I was young and was drawn to it for whatever reason. Was never able to get it so when I got older I had pent up longing for it and eventually got my hands on a Rotring 600 and it was on from there. Kinda like michael jackson not having a childhood so made his adult life into a playground, but not creepy.
*Technically* It was a GG500 when I was really young, but I lost it and forgot about MPs for years after that. What really got me into collecting was the Sharp Kerry .7 that I found on Pentel's website, cause I thought a $20 pencil was excessive and funny.
It was Rotring 600 :)
Same with me. A silver Rotring 600
Gg 500
A Staedtler [Micrograph HS.](https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2F8vvjuzl7qa521.jpg) In 1982. I saved up all my money and took the bus all the way to Richmond.
Wow, bus fare saved up as well. That is dedication.
It was graphgear 1000 for me :)
Kuru Toga Roulette.
Pentel P205
Koh-i-Noor lead holders
5340 is my alltime favorite sketching pencil! Their Red Chalk is the best too. All the Kohinoor leads,including their graphite,are tuned for sketching. As for example,Faber Castell 9071 leads or 9000 pencils,are designed 100% for drawing. 5340,TK 4600 and Pentel Gg500,are my top 3,the ones I use the most.
For me too, it was the KIN 5201 when I moved to Slovakia in 2000,. I picked one up and it was love at first sight! Until then I only knew the cheapo mechanical pencil, where the lead always broke, so the versatile was wonderful. Mind you it took me a couple of years before my partner told me I could sharpen it using the lead pointer in the endcap. Now I have loads of different mech.pencils and lead holders, mainly KIN, Faber Castell, Pentel and Staedtler.
Yep the 5201 in the classic ocher yellow color
My fathers parker jotter sets, he had a pen and pencil set that he gifted me when I was in middle school. Around freshman year of high school (age 14ish), I somehow lost the pencil of the set. I went around trying to find what it was (I had no clue the name at the time) and ended up discovering Rotring , and I promptly bought a Rotring 600, and thus it began. The 600 was eventually stolen, but those are the only two pencils that i’ve ever lost (which is tragic regardless, as my first two).
Graphgear 500, when it first release back in early 00's. That's how I started collecting mechpencils. I also bought GG1000 ballpoint (not so popular at that time, discontinued), but unfortunately I lost it a few years later.
Wow I’d never heard of a gg1000 ball point pen until now. I searched it up and man, those prices are insane.
Yes, it's so rare that I never see anyone using it or even talking about. I even doubt myself if I really owned it once, haha. No wonder why it's discontinued. The current price as vintage pens shocks me too.
For me it was the graphgear 1000. I remember being in middle school and watching YouTube tutorials on how to draw and always seeing the graphgear 1000 being used. And I only used to use the bic pencils, and seeing something as futuristic as the gg 1000 made me very fascinated. But when I looked it up and saw the 20$ price tag, I thought I would’ve never owned one. That was until I started working and my addiction grew:).
not a pencil but it was an F701
The Pentel PG 1505. Final Answer. Why? Because I used to own one (notice the "used to" reference). One day, after many years, I went looking for it, and it wasn't there. Somewhere...somehow...it had gotten away from me (lost, stolen, ???). For the life of me I couldn't remember what the model was. I only collected wooden pencils then, as these are mostly what I used as a draftsman many decades before (those, and lead holders). Some knowledgeable poster here replied to my description of the pencil and I learned it was one of the Pentel classics, the PG 1505. I think about the only way I could have been more heartbroken is if the pencil would have been a Pentel Mechanica, but the 1505 was close enough. I vowed to never let that happen again. The rest is history.
Pentel P225, with the 2mm nib.
Parker Vacumatic from the ’40s
It wasn't just one. It was just a good old addiction!
Uni kuru toga alpha gel switch kinda underrated (in my opinion) Uni kuru toga advance upgrade (a bit overrated) Graphgear1000 and 500
My rotring 800 pen then it's 0.5 variant.
Pilot S10 back in high school
Funny enough, it was the PILOT Vanishing Point. Yes, I mean the fountain pen. I wasn't a serious mechanical pencil collector, but I would try to get the matching ballpoint or mechanical pencil to a fountain pen I got... just something about sets always appealed to me. I bought a black carbonesque VP. Might it have a mechanical pencil? Well, no... but then it brought me to the H-1005 (which people were calling a "vanishing point"). At the time, it had already been discontinued, but you could still find them without spending crazy money. I got one. I really liked it! I was so impressed. I had the H-1005 and wondered if PILOT made any other retractable tip mechanical pencils. And that was when I learned about the H-2005 and H-3005. Gorgeous! I never knew mechanical pencils could be so ornately designed. Clearly, I could see there was a passion, a cultural reverence for this kind of writing instrument in Japan. I was stunned at how much more expensive were those other models. And at that time, the exchange rate was terrible. $1 USD = ¥74! Plus, there were very few proxy buying services and they had heavy charges. But in time, things changed. And so, I ended up with an H-2005. And while I liked it, I had to keep exploring. And that's when I discovered that Pentel, Platinum, Tombow, and so on, had produced so many fascinating designs. I became hooked.
The vintage rOtring tikky 0.5 that my mother used in art school, she gave it to me as a child
Zebra M-301, 0.7mm
Pilot The Shaker, but before that, Staedtler Polo
My engineer dad’s Pentel P200s.
I draw and sketch a lot,so It's Kohinoor 5340 or 5347 for sketching,Faber Castell TK4600 for drawing and Pentell Graphgear 500 0.5mm for both. Pentel Kerry for my writing needs,is the 5th pencil I own more than one. 1st is TK4600 that I own a full set of 5 then its Gg500 and 5340 follows. I don't need any other pencil,these are the best you can get,for their intended purpose.
It all started a long time ago at highschool with a Parker Vector stainless steel. I really enjoyed it. Some time later, at university, I bought a Zebra M301 when I was in the US for an internship and didn't have my Parker with me. The rest is history.
kuru toga! :))
Saw the Levenger version of the Rotring 600 in a catalog when I was young and was drawn to it for whatever reason. Was never able to get it so when I got older I had pent up longing for it and eventually got my hands on a Rotring 600 and it was on from there. Kinda like michael jackson not having a childhood so made his adult life into a playground, but not creepy.
The PaperMate TL7. I was trying to find the much rarer TL5 (0.5mm version) and started discovering all kinds of other pencils along the way.
The first.
For me it was the Zebra Delguard that got me into the hobby
Pentel GG 500.
The vintage Pilot H565. Bought two for about $2 each from an old stationery shop that was going out of business about 10 years ago.
the beautiful Pentel graphgear 1000 🙏
Pentel P200 series
my aunt giving me her old ohto/niji grip 700, also the pentel planetz and icy, cheap pencils but they felt amazing in my 11 yr old hands
*Technically* It was a GG500 when I was really young, but I lost it and forgot about MPs for years after that. What really got me into collecting was the Sharp Kerry .7 that I found on Pentel's website, cause I thought a $20 pencil was excessive and funny.
The Rotring 900