2.0mm Mechanical Pencil, Wooden Barrel, With Lead Sharpener, #1 B, Black Lead, 1ea (OTP-680NST), natural wood color w/sharpener

Kitaboshi is my favorite mechanical pencil. Basically the pencil feels good in the hand & provides a fairly smooth writing experience for a pencil. But the selling point for me was the dark black lead (graphite?) color! So many pencils write in such a light a grey (even some #1s) but this lead is DARK and wonderful! You can even sharpen it to as fine a point as you like with the included sharpener. I just ordered more refills for this pencil, but then ended up also just buying another one of these Kitaboshi pencils in black. I still adore the natural wood color of this one, but decided to try the black one also since you can't own too many favourite mechanical pencils. I hope they never stop making this pencil.

I LOVE THIS PENCIL!!!! I have many other type of Lead Holders and I have to say that, for the money, you can’t get any better. It’s longer than most Holders, which I personally like. The wood grain gives you the feel of the old school HB school pencils. The sharpener holds up failrly well. I am looking to buy more in the future

Love this pencil. What a nice looking lead holder. The wood is real and smells great like cedar should. The Lead it comes with is nice quality. I did sand down the ends of the pencil lightly to make the pencil even more smooth and love the way it feels. The advancing mechanism is like a mechanical pencil and it works great. you get small advancements and no play in the lead.

I have to admit, I love this pencil. It's a mechanical pencil that feels just like a regular pencil - the wood barrel is just a fraction thicker than a standard pencil. The satin finish to the wood barrel makes it easy to hold.I bought 4h leads for it to make light undersketches for watercolors. The great thing about using a 2mm lead is that you can tilt it to create thicker lines, but using a hard lead means the sketch is less likely to wash out, making your watercolor look dirty.It comes with a very different looking sharpener (meant for sharpening the lead only), but it works great. It's very easy to change/refill leads too. You can pull out the clicker off the end and drop it in that way, but I think it's easier to just hold the clicker down and drop the new lead in through the point. No messy wood chips, very comfortable to hold.

This is a really good pencil, very durable and writes smoothly. I'm sure you'll like it! The only downside is that it can get dirty easily, but overall it's a solid choice.

This is one of the finest lead holders money can buy. If you love writing with wood case pencils this may be the lead holder for you. It is made out of quality cedar, rigid and sturdy while still being lightweight. It is the perfect hexagon shape, not too wide, and the length feels comfy. It weighs in at 10.5 grams (with lead in) and has a really nice balance. The one difference in feel from a wood case pencil is that it has a rounded conical metal tip, rather than a classic triangular conical tip, but this is super super nit picky. I use it with an eraser cap, they do fit but are very very tight and can be annoying when advancing lead, not an issue for me. The lead is amazing, so smooth and dark, but you will need to sharpen often. I would suggest using a long point sharpener like a Uni lead pointer.The one downside to this pencil for me is that it is an incremental clutch. I personally like the feel of a drop clutch as it grabs the lead right at the tip and gives you a very stable point to write/draw from, much more similar to wood case. Many incremental clutch designs let the lead wobble ever so slightly within the tip sleeve. With that said Kitaboshi has done an exceptional job at dealing with this issue, there is the tiniest tiniest amount of wobble from the lead. Most people would not notice and is a total non issue, but I can notice when switching between wood case and my other clutch pencils.For now I still prefer my Koh-I-Noor Versatil 5211 and 5201, both are great balanced hexagonal lead holders. Downside to 5211 is that it is plastic and bends a bit when writing/drawing. The 5201 is the sturdiest pencil I have, but the downside is that it is a bit heavy for me and my hand gets tired from time to time.Still waiting for someone to make a quality drop clutch wood case Lead Holder!!!

As the heading says, I love this lead holder. I really appreciate the push click advance of the lead. There is a good weight and balance to the pencil and it just feels right. I do have to admit that I prefer another brand of lead but I love this pencil! The added sharpener is a nice touch and the product packaging is very tasteful. My only complaint is that it would be nice touch in production if they would feather the octagon of the pencil smoothly into the lower lead ferule.

Pencils, brings back loving memories of scantron tests of ye wonderful middle school era! Such fondness it brings... anyways. Mechanical pencils, the invention to stave off the unholiest of duties, sharpening one's own pencil until it has a razor-sharp point, only for it to break the second it even gets close to the paper. The small leads make it have a semi sharp point most of the time, but we all know how easily they can break, and heaven forbid you have only short broken leads, because the pencil acts like it dont know wtf you talking about. This pencil has a 2.0, because the .0 makes is fancy, mm lead that can take quite a bit of pressure before breaking, if it ever breaks. The sharpener is specialized, but it comes with one if you need it, and can sharpen it to a fine point. They also have refills in packs of 5, which is handy. I have a wood pencil for everyday and a red pencil with red lead for when I really want to be substitute teacher kind of assertive! Its a joy to write with, no breakage, and people will ask you about it. Something about the thickness of the lead brings all the boys to the yard while making them feel inadequate at the same time. It isnt expensive, but this is still a luxury pencil that we all deserve. Hope you get to enjoy one soon!