Pentel Sharp P207 Drafting Pencil Review

[@niroz6579]

This is my absolute favorite pencil for sketching for the last 25 years. Magical and beautiful🌟 THE BEST. Back in the day it used to be very cheap

[@jmh_2006]

Nice review. I started using this pencil in the early 80's. The clip can definitely be removed. It will also break eventually. Eventually to a 3rd grader being after about a month :). The erasers used to have a needle embedded in them to help deal with lead breaks that left a short vit of left stuck in the nib. One would take the needle and push out the stuck lead by threading it through the nib end.

[@DinnerForkTongue]

As far as getting started on drafting pencils go, you could certainly do much worse than the Pentel Sharp. The P200s are immortals of the stationery world just like the Bic Cristal, and they've _earned_ their fame. Just look at the sheer amount of knockoffs and copycats on the market. All Pentels come loaded with Super Hi-Polymer lead, their cheapest offering, in HB, so you got that right. It's good graphite, I have no complaints, though I tend to prefer their Ain Stein line, because you get so many more of them per individual case: an SHP case gives you only 12 leads, while Ain Stein in any size above 0.3 will net you at least 36 leads in one purchase (40 leads for 0.5 and 0.7, 36 for 0.9), in a durable plastic case that's much harder to open on accident than the