Looking for HQ Mechanicalpencil
 

Hey, I'm looking for super highquality Mechanical Pencils similar to Caran D'Ache ones but a little more extravagant, anyone know of a site that sells something like that?

preferably ø 2 mm

thats an example

http://www.carandache.ch/_imgm/Image...dor_MayaOr.png

Willing to spend up to 500$

Examples for exquisite designs like Mont Blanc too!

I buy a pack of around 20 mechanical pencils for $8. I think they are BIC, seems to work just fine for me ;)

Those are either 0.5mm or 0.7mm.

Yea but I'm looking for something more unique to represent my passion to art and what I like to do :) of course, the usability has to be top aswell!

currently using this:

http://www.zc77.de/bilder/13942B.jpg

What I said was a joke qq :(

i'm so bad

there's children starving in africa, and you're buying 500 dollar pencils :\

pens ftw

oh very nice, thanks :) still open for more!

unfortunately none of them are 2 mm :(

salesman, me buying a 500 dollar pencil is the same as others buying a car, a pencil means alot to me :)

http://www.harrods.com/HarrodsStore/...=search-result

This is from Harrods, I think theres more, but the website is a bastard to get around.

But if they're not starving and doing hard labor for a dime, who's going to make the $500 pencils?

lmao, stick to pixels elk. You don't need a pencil then.

Looks like you don't know anything...

I had a pencil in my hands years before I even knew what a pixel is, and I'm hundred times better at pencil-drawings than at pixelwork :)

Same here, I sucked at pixeling and I still am. I work much faster and better with a paper and a pencil.

actually very difficult to find "expensive" 2mm, or any 2mm mechanical pencils on the net. and due to my being very bored at work, ive actually looked quite a bit for you...

i found some resources that may help you like the above link i posted:

http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Mec...l_Pencils.html
^^a pretty cool resource - it even has a "pencil finder" where you put in the specs u want and it searchs for a match... everything i find is >75$

(link to my search: http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/Pen...hp#ls=2,pencil )

http://www.leadholder.com/forum/
^^ a forum with people much like yourself (ask there u might get further)

hope you find one, let me know when you do

P.S. seems to me that the smaller the lead size, the more expensive they become. found a few .3mm lead mech pencils upwards of 250$

Just have someone design and machine one for you. That'd be a pretty clear display of passion.

http://www.myeasypics.com/is.php?i=5...TM2.0BLACK.jpg

http://cgi.ebay.com/TOMBOW-MONOTECH-...-/260579769355

adding on to this, design your own and have someone machine it, Just gonna add this in, Wood can look pretty expensive, My dad makes stuff on the lathe out of expensive wood, but there only like 25$ and there pens..I'm sure there's a kit for mechanical pencils, just a suggestion, or get a solid gold one

I'd prefer a good old fashioned set of wooden pencils any day. 2B, HB, and 2H is all you need ;)

Whats the point of a high quality mechanical pencil?

^^

I don't know if your trying to be smart.. but that doesn't answer his question.

A pencil means a lot to him, how do you not understand that?
I believe he most likely makes money for his artwork, so to make money he will need high quality tools probably.

I dont think i was being smart, but if you want to go that route... theres 3 answers to this question:

Q."Whats the point of a high quality mechanical pencil?"

a1. me buying a 500 dollar pencil is the same as others buying a car, a pencil means alot to me (assuming "the point" was his personal reason)

a2. Art and Drawing

Different things may be important for artistic drawing and sketching, compared to technical drawing - though some artists prefer drafting pencils. A pencil for sketching is likely to be a more subjective and individual thing, but here are some of the more important considerations...

* Available lead hardnesses: not really anything to do with the pencil as such, but a range of hardnesses can be as important to an artist as a range of widths - maybe more so. Some hardnesses are only available in certain widths (Pilot ENO lead has the widest range), with 0.5mm usually having the best range. If this is important to you, check that you can get the right width of lead for the pencil you're considering, in the hardnesses you want to use.
* Balance: because sketching and drawing is usually done with faster movements than technical drawing, the balance of the pencil is more important. You may only find out by experimenting if you prefer a light or heavy pencil, and if you prefer the weight to be mainly towards the tip, or towards the centre. Try a few pens and pencils you have, to see which feel better balanced in your hand, then work out where the weight of them is concentrated.
* Thick leads: some artists use 0.5mm mechanical pencils, but most prefer thicker leads. Mechanical pencils are only commonly available with 0.9mm leads, but Faber-Castell make some with 1.4mm leads (for the e-Motion), and Pilot make a special artist's pencil, the Croquis, with 3.8mm leads.
* Portability: if you like to be able to sketch anywhere, you need to make sure your pencil is portable enough to be with you when you want it.

For drawing and sketching, you may also want to look at clutch pencils, which are are available with 2mm or thicker leads.
(assuming "the point" is the actual functionality of having a HQ mechanical pencil vs. a little BIC one)

a3. The part that is most likely to pierce your skin (assuming "the point" is the point)


As to the reason why that question was asked in the first place, i feel it was an attempt of one artist to undermine another.

tl;dr:
http://www.thevine.com.au/resources/...0310102609.jpg

Thanks for answering my question, but I was not trying to undermine anyone. I was just wondering what the point is to buying an expensive pencil.

Lets put it that way, a pencil that not everyone has gives me a more comfortable feeling when drawing, and it gives me even more motivation to draw with the said pencil, a special feeling of some sorts

Drawing isnt just "drawing" for me...its so much more, im so careful about things a normal guy would never be able to do, the sound of drawing, the contact between lead and paper, its like sex

Hence I need a special pencil for me to enhance that feeling :)?

http://cgi.ebay.at/NEU-MONTBLANC-Ble...item5191a150cf

A pencil that not everybody has. If that's all it is, make your own, or find somebody who does custom work. Otherwise it seems very ridiculous to try to find the most desirable pencil and get that one. Why get something everybody else is after if you want something unique?

Also, that's creepy.

You gonna **** it?

His idea of a mechanical pencil is something you hold and draw with (with some random displays of deeper affection for it and art)

My idea of a mechanical pencil:
http://www.thestylehouse.ca/wp-conte...ardi_large.jpg

Comes with its own pallete, You can erase it with ease! (Especially if you are a rager) and its a popular toy for kids!

I didn't say a pencil that nobody else but me has, lol, i want something exclusive, hence me spending so much :)

nobody is after a pencil that is unique, rofl, because not everyone shares that passion :) you misunderstand alot
regardless of you not even being an artist (afaik)

don't be so hypocrite

Also, don't troll my thread,

as for Stephens advice, that would be a little TOO expensive, I think (2-3k)

Lol, give me a day or two and I'd be able to make a mechanical pencil from nice Cocobolo or Cannarywood and the innards of an old 2mm. XP

http://img.alibaba.com/photo/1109908...g_BC_Grade.jpg
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http://www.gearys.com/gearyssf/image...ium/148680.jpg
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http://www.freshpromotions.com.au/pr...cal-pencil.jpg
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make your own pencil

I don't know how to craft Gold or Rhodium or Silver or any of that knowledge, else I would!

Got the EXACT same concept as a drawing I made once. x_x

Also, I am not the kinda type that use super tools or anything too draw. If I had I would probably use them but meh'.

If I got a little piece of paper, and a pen or a pencil, I start drawing. :cool:

Well I sell my drawings, i cant just pick any paper or so XD

You must spread some reputation around before giving it to DustyPorViva again. :cry:

Yeh, I can understand that. ^^

I wish I could sell what I drawed, but I wouldn't get much lol.

Probably more like $450.