eraserhead 2.0

Just a quickupdate:I went to my local art supply store today and got this, the Pentel GraphGear 500 with 0.5mm lead. (I deliberately went to the architecture/drafting section of the store, where they had all the weird rulers, figuring here I would be among my people.) It ' s pretty nice. It made suffering through the rest of my Biostats problem set a relative pleasure. (I shouldn ' t overstate things. Ifinished the problem set. Period.) The pencil feels good (despite having a non-padded metal grip), the balance is satisfying, and the eraser and lead are of good quality. I would have preferred a metal body (while the weight is overall nice, only grip and tip are metal, while the body itself is made of plastic), we can ' t always have everything we want, at least not in this price range. Or, I guess I could spring for the Pentel GraphGear 1000, which has an aluminum body through and through, andmust be nicer if for no other reason than 1000 is twice as much as 500, right? MATH.If I ' m willing to splurge beyond thePentel GraphGear 1000--and I ' m not sure that I ' mtotally willing to go here yet, since I do tend to lose things, and I also have clumsy kleptomaniac kids which is why I can ' t Have Nice Things--I might go this route:TherOtring 600. I was originally looking at theUni Roulette mechanical pencil (by the way, if you ever feel like you ' re a little too fanatically ardent about your pen and pencil choices, go look at the literally THOUSANDS of reviews on...
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