If you’re used to heavy drafting pencils that have rougher grips, the Blick Premier may be too smooth for you—you’d be better off with the heftier rOtring 600 Mechanical Pencil 1 with its ...

Don’t get me wrong: I think the rOtring 600 is handsome in its rugged way too, and you can find even fancier mechanical pencils out there, but the Blick Premier has an everyday elegance.

The rough metal grip is similar to the Rotring, though maybe a little sharper ... Lead width and hardness are really what we’re talking about here. Most mechanical pencils will take lead of any ...

A good mechanical pencil is a beautifully-made object. Architects have long sworn by the original German model of my prized Rotring 600, now manufactured in Japan: Its all-metal barrel is ...

The 800+ sits at the top of Rotring’s expansive range of fine mechanical pencils. The ‘+’ signals the addition of a useful stylus tip, perfect for scribbling of tablets and phones, while the pencil ...

With an elegant satin finish on the barrel and a smooth, velvety performance, the Rotring Tikky Retro Mechanical Pencil is an affordable professional pencil for artists looking to hone their craft.

even the mechanical pencil comes in different lead weights. Regardless of what you choose, you can change it out at any time too depending on your writing needs. Our setup: inks and a pencil combo to ...