Temu everlasting pencil test (not sponsored)

The everlasting pencil, also known as the infinity and eternal pencil is a novel writing/drawing device that uses changeable tips made of a very hard pigment-loaded material.
The compromise is that the mark it makes is fairly light, although it does produce interesting shading results that might please some artists.
These pencils are widely sold on Temu, eBay, AliExpress and other online platforms.
I'm quite impressed by how many spelling mistakes I managed to make in one video. I'll just pretend that's how we spell things here. At least I got to test the slightly squishy eraser.
I'm not sure how long a tip will last, but I'd guess that even a well worn tip will still have uses for filling in larger areas of colour.
I got these pens expecting them to be pretty faint, and they didn't disappoint in that regard, but they do potentially have their uses. I'll stick to my Pilot V-sign liquid ink pen for my schematics though.
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[@Ranger_Kevin]

The body of these pens looks suspiciosly like LAMY fountaine pens that I used when I was in school. The little windows are where the ink cartridge would sit so you could see when you were running low.

[@TripleTstatic]

Indeed, it's a blatant rip-off of the LAMY Safari fountain pen design.

[@howlingwolven]

Indeed.

[@shogun2215]

They are EXACTLY like the Lamy pens you can still buy, typical Chinese rubbish copying someone elses' hard work.

[@chris9650]

People of culture here.

[@mrrooter601]

based copyright ignorers

[@kenmcfa]

"Here's your everlasting pencil... And ten spare tips for when it runs out."

[@PaulGrayUK]

Fair point. like those lifetime guarantees - as in the lifetime of the company that sold it to you.

[@Lizlodude]

@@PaulGrayUK Or more accurately, the lifetime of the product...which is until it fails 😅

[@ddbb6618]

​@@PaulGrayUKI remember being given a plastic 'bag for life' at the cash desk of a store, 'Do I look that ill ?' Was my response ...

[@PaulGrayUK]

@@ddbb6618 Yeah, those are the ones that small children would suffocate with and add a whole new meaning of "bag for life".

[@PaulGrayUK]

@@Lizlodude Yip - whichever comes first. Then there is support lifetime etc etc.

[@RFC3514]

So, basically they've invented the _inefficient_ mechanical pencil, where you have to replace the tip instead of just pressing a button to extend it.

[@SocksAndPuppets]

These days you can also get a huge range of colours of lead for mechanical pencils. Uni do a great range, and you can even get a set of randomly mixed ones if you just like your next lead to be a surprise :D

[@macdoo99]

The Koh-i-Noor clutch pencils are like this but are like a proper mechanical pencil

[@ILovePancakes24]

That's how Chinese products go nowadays. Call a problem an innovation and call it a day.

[@Chris_the_Muso]

Well, to be fair it's a metal oxide which wears down quite slowly instead of graphite which disappears at a rapid pace. It just doesn't last forever as they'd like you believe, and they put it in a pen body that's going make it difficult to rotate the pencil lead to get more even wear. It wouldn't be difficult to make holder for these that is more practical than the Safari style pen body.

[@RFC3514]

@@ILovePancakes24 - "Chinese products" is increasingly synonymous with "products". The quality is whatever the client asks for. Most clients just ask for "as cheap as possible".

[@brianartillery]

There was a thing in the 1970's, called a 'Pop Pencil'. It was a tube containing a number of bullet like 'Cartridges' containing a pre sharpened pencil lead. When the current lead wore down, you simply pulled that 'cartridge' out, and inserted it into the end of the tube, and it pushed out the next lead ready for use. Colour pencil crayon versions were also available.

[@mrkrazy123]

I remember them being pretty common into the 2000s at least. Maybe they still have them and obviously I’m just not going to Scholastic book fairs anymore to see them, but this definitely isn’t a new thing.

[@ferrumignis]

My daughter had one on those in the early 2010's so they are probably still around.

[@stephenjohnston6902]

I had forgotten all about them... Probably not very eco friendly now though 🤔

[@chris9650]

@@stephenjohnston6902 a decent one probably is. Used to work with an old school draughts man who had a metal one and a small packet of refills.

[@gs425]

In uk it was called "pop a point" pencil. They were later available with different colour leads, and even one containing rubbers in different colour housings. I still have one

[@MladenMijatov]

Problem with these is that they don't mix with other colors nor do they shade properly. Artists prefer pencils which can be shaded and there's a white option.

[@PainterVierax]

Those colors don't look like very intense either. A good set of artist color pencils is much more versatile.

[@Thermalions]

Agreed, anyone doing artistic stuff would want the ability to blend, mix and shade. There's a reason proper artist pencils, pens etc are so expensive - they far exceed the quality and compounds found in everyday pencils/pens.

[@shabath]

These pens are so infinite, that most listings come with a bunch of replacement tips.

[@nyckid]

Uh, no, not at all.. they... umm.. they have... oh, spares! They're spares in case you lose your original of the main col... ah crap, I can't even fake that. 😂

[@marcdraco2189]

Why did Shakespeare use a quill? He couldn’t decide which pencil to use - 2B or not 2B!?

[@ICanDoThatToo2]

dad, stoppit

[@marcdraco2189]

@@ICanDoThatToo2 you win the Internet. I’ve gotta snap that for posterity.

[@sinceRENEss]

Pencel / pensel - a small pennon, originally one carried by a knight's squire =)

[@kieranjamieson]

Are those pencels browne or burrple?

[@h14hc124]

TIL that Big Clive isn't very good at spelling

[@ChronicWhale]

@@h14hc124it’s an intentional joke, think a little

[@bigclivedotcom]

Only when under pressure of filming.

[@BlackSoap361]

Variety is the spice of lief

[@simonneep8413]

Can you say "Burple purglar alarm"?

[@mysock351C]

I have a Burple alarm. Goes off for belching, but for flatulence not much joy. I think I need the Purgler option.

[@JessicaFEREM]

You can buy 2MM lead pencils that you sharpen, and replace the leads fairly easily. it's basically the inside of a wooden pencil that you can use with a more comfortable grip and save trees while you're at it. You can also buy leads that give a darker line as well.

[@sirtiberius1083]

I love the mechanical Drafting pencils, strong strong thick graphite and no wood shavings to deal with

[@JessicaFEREM]

I really wish though that Uni made the kuru toga for 2mm leads that would be awesome.

[@25566]

​@@sirtiberius1083until you drop it and the lead breaks into pieces

[@sirtiberius1083]

@@25566 At least the lead doesn't snap every 5 seconds like wood pencils when sharpening

[@Asptuber]

Also 5,6 mm. At least Kooh-i-Noor Hartmuth makes them. Many different leads available, both graphite (various hardnesses, at least HB, B and 2B - might be even more but I personally haven't seen those), pressed charcoal and various coloured ones. The better/more expensive handles are a real nice weight, and also have a sharpener inbuilt. (Though if you want a really tapered point getting a dedicated sharpener is better). There's also cheap (as in

[@Kineth1]

I like how the Chinese product immediately corrected pencil to the chinglish spelling "pencel"

[@Kae6502]

That was amazing! lol!

[@DJJAKEY2009]

Thought I was the only one who noticed haha

[@dashcamandy2242]

@@DJJAKEY2009 When Clive mentioned "blurple" and putting an 'e' at the end of "brown," I was sitting there still staring at "pencel."

[@stephenjohnston6902]

Woooohooooo, your American viewers are going to be agog at the use of the word rubber 😂! Happy new year Big Clive and thank you for a full year's entertainment.

[@Kineth1]

Well, his pencil didn't get anything pregnant, so I'd say the rubber works quite well.

[@gdj6298]

In the UK, we use a rubber when there's a cock-up. So, in a way, do they...

[@stephenjohnston6902]

Brilliant 🤣😂🤣😂

[@Rob-e8w]

When my British wife worked in an office in America she asked one of the other girls if she could borrow her rubber. Oh dear!

[@Hemostat]

I've had it happen to me. Was very awkward, especially when you got a crush on the person

[@Snarlacc]

Those tips remind me of the colouring toys I got sometimes in kindersurprise eggs in the 2010s. The real everlasting pen is a metal tip that does last a long time, these look more like the toys. They last longer than crayons and feel like plastic but do get used up relatively quickly.

[@Fray-Bentos]

Thank you... I knew they were familiar, I just didnt know where from, until now

[@asciimation]

I like using a Uni Kuru Toga mechanical pencil because it has a little one way clutch in the tip that rotates the lead as you write so it wears evenly. I've never had issue with any other normal mechanical pencils tip wearing unevenly so I am not sure it really does anything but the geek in me just loves the over-engineered-mechanical-ness of it.

[@SocksAndPuppets]

I love the Kuru Toga, and I think if you're getting a pencil to write with, it's probably the best on the market. The "High Grade" and "Advance" skews are particularly wonderful. Strong recommend for people who write or journal in pencil - it feels a lot like writing with a smooth rollerball. For drawing, I find the kuru toga has a little give in it as you press - that'd probably be okay if you got used to it, but for precise drawing I couldn't get used to it, so I use a pentel p203 and a pentel graphgear1000. Still the champ for me.

[@retro_tech]

I laughed way more than I should have at "Burple".

[@RennayM]

I came here looking for a review of a burple bencel and this is the closest I've found so far

[@ZacabebOTG]

It's a perfectly cromulent word for that color.

[@wtmayhew]

I like Pentel mechanical pencils. I have several which I bought back in the 1980s which still get daily use. I like the HB hardness graphite. The 0.5 and 0.7 mm thickness make pretty good lines, though I stick with 0.5 mm most of the time. I had a set of Staetler pencils which included 0.3 mm, but that was too thin for my ham hands, and I was always breaking the graphite.

[@nickaa827]

Pentel Twist Erase III for the win

[@rimmersbryggeri]

there is .9 toI have one of those pens but its not the easiest to get graphite for these days.

[@OOZ662]

Paper Mate Clearpoints are my babies. I found one on the hallway floor in Grade 9 that had been stepped on and had a crack starting; I used it every following day and it split open the week I graduated.

[@shabath]

With the .3 and .2 pencils you need to leave the lead only up to the protective tube, if it sticks out even a little it will break when you breathe towards it. Though I really don't get the point of them, you can get about as thin line with .5 and it is easier to use.

[@wtmayhew]

@@rimmersbryggeri Oh, that’s right, the 0.9 mm was a yellow barrel. I have (or had?) one, almost forgot. That is good for carpentry because the graphite is stout enough not to break marking wall stud wood.

[@TheLinkoln18]

New band name “The bent pencils” thank you Clive the gift that keeps on giving. 😊

[@shoonsserendipity]

If they call it infinity pencil, it should not have any spare tips. LOL

[@JamesChurchill3]

Fun fact, if you attach some of those infinity nibs to a glove you can snap half of humanity out of existence.

[@Grid56]

Many years ago, either pre or in the early days of propelling pencils, I used to have one that held about ten short lengths of "lead" each in its own plastic holder. On some versions, the top of the pencil had a removable sharpener so you could keep the tip pointy. When it became worn down too much, you either pulled or propelled (I can't remember which) out the plastic shroud to reveal the next one with it's fresh nib. At the time, it was a great leap forward, especially for those of us as rail enthusiasts.

[@paulklee5790]

As is often the case with these kinds of writing tools, the body is a clone of the classic Lamy Safari fountain pen… don’t they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?

[@JoeCarsto]

Ah, a novel way to get rid of hazardous waste… infinite pencil tips… I wonder if they are radioactive?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Not radioactive (I tested).

[@vaughanellis7866]

There used to be a similar product available in the late 70's to mid 80's, but instead of screwing the leads in a the the tip. you took the worn out 'lead' out of the front of the 'pencil' and push it back into the base causing a fresh 'lead' to be pushed forward, you got around 20 tips in each pencil. Edit Just remembered what they were called, Pop-o-Points,

[@bigclivedotcom]

I had a pop a point at school. I popped the points so much that the ratchet failed.

[@zacharystone3001]

You should check out the Sun-Star Metacil, which I think this is imitating. The Metacil's trick is that the lead is graphite bound with aluminum (powder sintered?) instead of the usual clay. It does indeed last forever, since the tip is quite hard and very little lead is laid down. A side effect is that the lines are extremely faint--it's like using a high hardness conventional pencil. After a week's use I retired the Metacil since the line was too light, bordering on illegible on a legal pad. I wonder whether the lead in yours is a conventional pencil lead, and hence the dark lines and bag of spares. If I recall, the Metacil tips had a threaded aluminum core (which screwed into the female threaded aluminum pencil body), where it looks like the threads in your tips are formed into the lead material itself?

[@danforbes3573]

'Burple'. Thats a new colour Ive never heard of! 😁

[@RousePartridge]

I had one last century that pushed the used bit out and stored spares inside. I prefer to use 4B pencils, nice and dark.

[@Jeff44]

Weren't they called a "Push Up Pencil" or was it "Pop Out Pencil"? I do remember using them in the seventies.

[@marcdraco2189]

We used them in tech drawing. I had 0.3mm one. Bastard snapped all the time.

[@PainterVierax]

4B is pretty much a charcoal stick. Though from experience, B or 2B lead pencils feel softer than bits or wooden pencils of the same grade.

[@katrinabryce]

I thought it was going to be like the Forever Pen than The Action Lab covered about a year ago, but it seems a bit different to that.

[@henryptung]

> It's everlasting, the tip will never run out in normal use But how am I supposed to use it for writing when it's completely blunted? > Like I said, the tip will never run out in normal use

[@davearthur514]

The irony of needing refills for an infinity pencil

[@spamletspamley672]

As Irving Finkel at the British Museum Assyriology dept explained in his video on rescuing diaries from being thrown out when people die, there is a sort of infinity in using pencils instead of the sticky goo inside modern biros, or ordinary ink that washes off: even when the graphite has rubbed off, the writing is still legible in the right light. It's pretty much the nearest thing we commonly have to clay tablets, which will still be perfectly legible thousands of years after all our digital knowledge has been lost. Personally my best writing implement is a .25 Staedtler Marsmatic Pen. Especially since I got an ultrasonic bath for when it hasn't been used for a while and I hit on the idea of buying some very fine stainless wire to pull through when the original tapered needle eventually falls off. I don't know how anybody writes with standard sized pens and pencils. I still have the first dip mapping pen with a nib that turns round when not in use. It cost a few pence when I was at school and still gives a perfect fine line, but, when not blocked, the Staedtler beats it on convenience when writing in bed. (Incidentally: the cardboard boxes that laptops come in, make the best laptop stands for working in bed. Stuff them with corrugated box cardboard for stiffness, and just stab holes with your pencils to stop them rolling off, and sticky velcro for holding your phone.

[@SirBoden]

Reminds me of watercolor pencils I had as a child. You could scribble some paint then wet it with a brush to smooth it out. Good memories 😊☯️🙏

[@shabath]

Those watercolor pencils are pretty good, I currently got a couple different sets of them.

[@PainterVierax]

@@shabath you can also do that with charcoal or pastels with some oil or acrylic painting medium.

[@SaltCollecta]

It's very impressive that the infinity pencil can change your spelling!

[@GordonHenderson]

Nice concept, but probably won't replace my nice metal tin of Caran D'ache colour pencils, nor my left-handed Stabilo Easygraphs soon.

[@StrangelyIronic]

The light blue wouldn't be a bad underline for the rough sketch that you go over in a darker pencil or straight to ink. That's if I still really did traditional, my M1 iPad Pro and iPad Mini have basically made traditional sketching moot for me. I do still work with ink (brushes and fountain pens, even that is replicated with pretty good accuracy digitally anymore, but I actually machine and make the pens myself so it's a double dip of a hobby), and the very light color of these would work if they were easily erased later on. If they stay around it's a different story since when using ink for color (or water color) I wouldn't really want draft lines visible unless that was the style intended.

[@Case_]

Looks like the everlasting pencils last about the same as a regular pencil, judging by how much material is lost by using it. If not less, given the awkward shape of the tip that will make it pretty hard to sharpen after a while.

[@davearthur514]

Great video Clive. All we need now is a pencil that helps with your spelling. (PENCEL)

[@Sun-ut9gr]

I gotta wonder what those tips are made of. Being from Temu, you might want to get your geiger counter

[@bigclivedotcom]

Sadly, not radioactive. (tested with scintillation detector.)

[@My-Pal-Hal]

Am I the only Old Guy. That remembers the pencil basically just like those, from a few (hundred 😂) years back. That had those tiny replaceable lead tips made of plastic. Each one good, for like a half a page ??? ... i guess so

[@bigclivedotcom]

Pop a point pencils?

[@jkobain]

I happened to buy such a pen, it works, and it's a novelty. Yet, this is the first time I see them multicolour. I myself prefer liners, rollers, and nib fountain pens, especially because you can refill them and continue using the pen you already like and got used to.

[@TonyLing]

As an aside, SQN at Braddan have given me exemplary technical support on my third hand location mixer. What an amazing company, and so nice to see that they are still around to support a 1982 product.

[@Lizlodude]

Misspelling "infinity pencel' seems very fitting

[@Jeff44]

Apparently the "Temu" name is a contraction of Team Up. FWIW

[@KeritechElectronics]

Interesting. I wonder if there are different hardnesses available, and how to sharpen the thing when you run it down. I wonder what Fran would say.

[@bigclivedotcom]

Maybe a file. I think they have to be very hard to avoid instant wear.

[@RenThraysk]

I'm sure in due time, they'll knock off the Kuru Toga mechanical pencil. The lead rotates slightly each use so it wears evenly.

[@novelezra]

"a pencil that you replace the inside" So a pen, great.

[@LonnonFoster]

It brings to mind directly 3D printing threads onto a screw instead of using a die. But with pencil leads instead of plastic. Interesting idea. Kind of curious how many times you can replace one lead before its threads wear out and it no longer stays in the pencil body.

[@ybunnygurl]

I bought those to give them a go. There made of the same stuff as the Koi Knor solid color color pencils(wood less) they're alright

[@Elmojomo]

Do you possibly mean Koh-I-Noor, the maker of art and drafting supplies?

[@phonotical]

So what are the tips made out of? I thought an infinity pencil was supposed to be aluminium, but if there are colours, are they just different shapes of the same core material?

[@bigclivedotcom]

They feel like plastic.

[@JLneonhug]

They impregnate graphite/lead into the metal tips, they tend to wear out as fast as normal lead pencils for the price of pencils. The concern is if you break or sharpen the tip you will get significantly more wear than a normal pencil. The other concern is that the type of material used in this is unknown as far as my 'research' goes. I use mechanical pencils for the fine tip, does the job, going to stick with that really...

[@Okuajub]

A much longer-lasting and more practical version of this (actually used by artists and drafters) is called a clutch pencil. Clutch pencils are almost a hybrid of a wooden pencil and mechanical. They have swappable lead like mechanical pencils do, but the lead is wooden-pencil-sized graphite. No anxieties about rethreading it like with this Infinity pencil. as the name implies, the clutch pencil grasps onto the graphite, and its grip can be released to swap or adjust the graphite. The graphite on the pictured pencils seems to be of low quality (and the rubber eraser too). Even very hard graphite can leave dark marks when pressed if made well. But these had a hard time leaving marks at all, really. I think the yellow pencil seemed brighter only by virtue of being softer, leaving more pigment on the paper faster.

[@user-me6td1up1m]

Our art teachers always used to specifically request that we didn’t use clutch pencils because many of the easily available leads were too thin to allow proper shading. Then again, the art teacher at our high school banned pencil sharpeners as well, so 🤷‍♂️

[@raafmaat]

wait, how is this infinite? you can see that tip getting smaller!

[@Rob-e8w]

It has an infinitely short life.

[@nigelanscombe8658]

In the same vein as Trigger’s everlasting broom. Multiple new bits, multiple new bodies but it’s the same pencil.

[@raafmaat]

@@nigelanscombe8658 i get what they were trying to do but yeah its obviously not infinite, as a matter of fact im sure a box of normal pencils would probably last longer than this set of tips!

[@Jennifer-pk4wq]

as an artist, this looks pretty terrible for me. A random colored pencil set is more useful and you can sharpen them

[@dinkc64]

This guy can make anything seem interesting.

[@bojohannesen4352]

So it's a worse version of the pencil I had in 1995, where the refills were all contained in the pen, and then you kind of rotated them as they were worn out. I wish I'd saved one of them.

[@ZipplyZane]

If you're describing the kind I think you are, they still make them. You have a bunch of different tips in a clear tube. To switch them out, you take out the tip on the bottom, and push it through on top to rotate out the next one.

[@bigclivedotcom]

You can buy Pop A Point pencils on eBay.

[@doublepinger]

Most people already mentioned mechanical pencils... I experimented a lot with different pencils, as I learned in Middle School I kinda have a very angry writing grip (callouses, even). Extra thick pencils are great. The first was a very dark green, circular, supposedly my grandmothers. Exceptional writing. My First Ticonderogas are the modern equivalent. .7 mm lead is good, .5 is thin and I tend to tear paper, .3 is impossible. The trick with mechanical pencils, is to get one with a solid barrel that's part of the tip. GraphGear is solid metal from grip to tip. The Twist Erase and drafting pencils also have a metal barrel. Some have metal-ish barrels that wiggle back and forth in the plastic, and others are straight plastic. Constant lead breaks ensue. 1.3mm mechanical pencils are really nice, but as the pencil failed, the lead would come out too fast, or not even stay. Broad strokes and, watching the pencil to rotate, give nice smooth fine lines. I've tried a 2mm pencil lead from the Dollar Tree, but it must've been something mislabeled or made wrong, the pencil lead was very hard and made faint lines.

[@robc8593]

oh! I was expecting something like a lithium rechargeable battery, high voltage circuit and it carbonising the paper with a mini arc or something. It is in fact, a crayon!

[@parmesanzero7678]

We used to get these as prizes for school carnivals and book fairs 30 years ago…

[@sigilvii]

I'm so glad you made this vid. I saw these on I think Amazon and the similarity to Lamy was driving me crazy.

[@BAINE27]

Clive I have one of these my wife bought me for Christmas if you look in the end you can see the mechanism pushes the ball out of the ink cartridge so this is definitely the body of an ink pen

[@WizardTim]

I've noticed Shahriar from The Signal Path channel often uses a similar type of (aluminum?) pencil. This one however is a complete ripoff of the LAMY safari pen design.

[@keithyinger3326]

I remember when I was a kid, they were colored pencils with different colored tips in kind of a little plastic holder. The tube of the pencil was Halo and the idea was you would pull one color out of the bottom and shove it in the top pushing the next color out the bottom so you could write with it. Keep pulling one out the bottom and shoving it in the top until you get to the color you wanted. In reference to an Infiniti pencil though I think I prefer the old school automatic pencils that you would buy sticks of lead for and drop about 20 sticks in the top. Click the little button on the side or the top to advance the lead. Seems a whole lot easier to have almost unlimited pencil writing time versus screwing on little tips that are going to get dull pretty quick.

[@bigclivedotcom]

I had one. Pop a points are still on eBay.

[@Sylvan_dB]

After discovering Burple, did you start shading a patch before writing the color name? Thanks for the review!

[@HAL9000.]

"Ordinary Pencil" vs Temu's "Infinity Pencel" 😂

[@Egg-mr7np]

If this was from America it would come with millions in marketing and a fifteen minute TED talk saying what a revolution it is.

[@davidberriman5903]

Clive I have to congratulate you on some rather imaginative spelling.

[@aicirtkciub9167]

The coloured one is interesting. I kinda like it. I would try colouring with it !

[@PyramidHead76]

I tried a couple to use in a pen plotter (like it's the 80s), but I found that they absolutely do not like being used tip-down in the same position for all time. You just get a very feint line fading to nothing that way...

[@echothehusky]

Do the tips break if you accidentally drop them on the floor?

[@bigclivedotcom]

They seem quite strong.

[@iloveshw]

There was this pencil years ago with a similar claim. It was made out of some kind of metal (a slightly toxic one, so I didn't order one worrying I'll forget myself and chew on it), that would obviously wear out, but it would take a very long time. I do wonder if these ones (at least the black one) is the same, but made into a tip instead of a whole pencil

[@shabath]

Those "infinite" metal pens are very much still available. I believe the tip is aluminium, it oxidises fast enough to keep working as you write. Though apparently not very good, the line is very light in color, and picky on paper it is used on.

[@yhormthemidget]

I dont have one, but I guess it is more than likely just traditional hard pencil graphite around H3-H5 and he mentioned the tip started to wear quickly. Unless you use it for shading, it is be pretty wasteful, you would have to throw out the top quickly, as writing with it would be horrible.

[@Backroad_Junkie]

You might find they offer softer leads, like an H or HB. Normal #2 pencils are quite hard, and don't lay down a dark enough line. The "infinity" pencils I've seen are these tubes, with several pencils tips in a FIFO order. Once the tip got dull, you removed it from the front of the tube, pushed it in the back of the tube, which forced a new tip out the front...

[@wirelesspizza]

huh, that looks so close to the LAMY Safari

[@oetken007]

The Design is from Lamy. A very popular german vendor for writing instruments.

[@ZebbMassiv]

I have this exact shape plastic pen, but the tip doesn't write. It cuts. Its got a tinyrazor blade tip for cutting out small vinyl stickers. Interesting how that pen type is so universal. Probably incredibly inexpensive to produce in high volume.

[@GuyFromSheffieldUK]

Definitely ordering a couple of these for the kids. It will save having to carry full sets of colouring pencils on the ferry every time we travel on and off the rock. 🇮🇲👌🏻

[@bewilderbeestie]

Your traditional 'infinity pencil' was invented sometime earlier than 1500 and is called silverpoint --- in its simplest form you just write with a pointy piece of metal. Any metal will do although silver's a favourite. This looks like it's halfway between that and normal coloured pencil lead. Proper silverpoint never really wears out in normal use and these were noticeably wearing after a bit of shading. Also, real silverpoint can't be erased, which is one reason why people switched to graphite. Try it with a long nail or something decently sharp --- it works really well.

[@sxndwich3395]

Yep! Was thinking it was a little ironic, because Clive said that these are a fun novelty art thing. Its ironic because they are just rebranded art tools being sold to non artists as something new.

[@Flymochairman1]

Someone's re-invented the Pop-A-Point Pencil from the 70's. Cute idea. Cheers!

[@paulcollins3725]

Probably mentioned below but, being a pedant, 'Pencel' isn't a word and I note you used the rubber (or 'Erasure' for our American friends 🙂) to turn 'Browne' into Brown near the end. Love and stuff Clive, nice video.

[@SimonSideburns]

It's eraser.

[@IndianaJoe3]

So, asking from an artist's perspective... will it blend? That is, can you take a cotton swab and smudge the colors to make them more even, or to blend two colors together?

[@bigclivedotcom]

Colours didn't blend. Interestingly, not even on top of each other.

[@ezg8448]

Have one of these. They're not bad, as Clive said. However, the holder is a cheap light plastic with no heft, so the holding feeling and balance sucks.

[@npiper]

That blue reminds me of my old non-repro blue pencils from drafting and layout back in College.

[@richardcutts196]

The pink / blue plastic parts are knock off Lamy fountain pen shells. They used to be really cheap (about $1) before the pandemic. I like them because they force you to hold the pen/pencil correctly. The window in the upper part allows you to see how much ink there was in the pen cartridge.

[@nigozeroichi2501]

OOOOOOOOOOHH PURPLE😲 I'll have to get a set, I'd like to see how they are for my artwork.

[@Graeme_Lastname]

Colored pencils that you have to fiddle with instead of just picking the color you want?

[@dfgdfg_]

My grandfather was an architect who worked on paper his whole life. He always used Stabilo erasers. I borrowed one for school and it's very different from the cheap sandpaper type erasers - you coukd usually erase all marks without harming the paper.

[@JohnDlugosz]

I don't see why this would be preferred to a standard mechanical pencil, where the lead stays the same thickness and can easily advance.

[@PainterVierax]

or any good old crayon/pen holder for artistic purpose.

[@theotherwalt]

I took a drafting course, I was taught that when drawing with a pencil, rotate the pencil as you draw/write so that one side does not go flat.

[@Gunbudder]

It seems like this style of pencil comes in and out of fashion every so often. as others have noted, there is a very similar style of pencil called a "stack pencil" or "stackable pencil" where the tips are all stacked up inside the body (like you do at the end of this video) and to get a new tip, you pull out the current tip and shove it into the back of the pencil, which will push out the next tip in the body. the tips in stack pencils are usually #2 graphite tips that are quite thin which have been encased in a plastic sleeve so that then a tip is completely gone, the sleeve is still there to push out the next tip. generally the stack pencils don't sell very well beyond the novelty because if you drop and lose one of the cartridges, the entire system won't work at all because you will never be able to push out the next tip lol. also the rubber eraser (probably pvc i'm guessing) seems like the manufacturer took spare rubbers that were meant for extendable erasers and just shoved them inside a fountain pen body? really strange. the normal extendable erasers are actually extremely useful and every pencil artist i know uses one. i still think the ultimate pencil is a bic mechanical with replaceable rubber tips for the end. i still have a ton of them from when i was in school. eventually i moved on to the bic classic clic stick though, which is the ultimate pen. i have probably 100 of those lol

[@bigclivedotcom]

Pop a point.

[@reluttr2]

Whats funny is that I am fairly certain these are intended to be a bootleg of those "inkless metal pens" that ThinkGeek and Vat19 used to sell that were actually made out of a metal alloy that had an oxide coating that behaved in a similar way to graphite. Just it was generally way lighter in contrast and was difficult to erase, which is probably why they went with calling it a pen instead of the more obvious pencil comparison.

[@kathleenroberts6357]

I wonder if you can use a mechanical pencil sharpener to re-do the edge?

[@marcse7en]

I'm relieved to hear that you have "lead" in your long pink Temu pencil, Big Clive! 👍🤣

[@JulianSortland]

What are the "lead" pencil ones made from ? I have heard actual lead (Pb) or Aluminium (Al). It could be interesting to properly identify it.

[@mysock351C]

Everything old is new again. Had the same thing in the 80’s except all the tips were inside the pencil. It inconvenient to cycle to another color since I had to shove one in after another till I found the color I wanted.

[@PainterVierax]

it's even older than that. more than a century older! Marketing at its finest :D

[@stusue9733]

It seems infinity isn't nearly as far as I thought it would be, pretty sure I could walk it.

[@scottthomas3792]

When I was in school (1970s), there was something similar...a sharp graphite point in a plastic shell..the body of the pencil was filled with the sharpened bits...once it got dull, you pushed the dull one into the top of the pencil, which pushed a sharp one into place...very common in schools for a while...

[@bigclivedotcom]

Pop-a-point. Still available online.

[@dragoncatallini6475]

Thank you! Now I know they can fit my needs for marking my studying books!

[@ragetist]

Pro tip: Every pencil is infinite if you lose them after a week or so.

[@nagi603]

I did consider buying a different type of infinity pencil way before temu was a thing, I had two misgivings: 1: it was extremely hardness according to reviews, 2: lead. Yeah, it was just actual lead. Wonder what unmentioned content these heads have :D

[@ZeroPlayerGame]

Huh, as a colored pencil enjoyer, this looks dope. I'll keep an eye out for these!

[@sandordugalin8951]

A pencil you can't sharpen? Bless you, Temu!

[@tpaul2866]

Tempted to get one but I think I’ll wait till they sell a combination with the infinity ruler.

[@hungryhedgehog4201]

I have to say this thing looks very much like one of these expensive Lamy fountain pens I had in school, feel a bit ripped off now. Is this what they do with the molds?