Pentel Sharp Kerry Mechanical Pencil (0.7mm), Black Barrel, 1 Pen (P1037A)

Great mechanical pencil, classy looking, writes well.

i just recieved back surgery for spondylolasthesis... painful, and i have been out of school for a month. i received a gift card from family for amazon and looked for a nice mechanical pencil and pen to help me through the strenuous make up work i had ahead of me. i chose this wonderful pencil... which yes, does have an eraser (take the cap off the point end and replace it on the other side. then, take off the little metal cap that you click to advance the lead... there it is)which i don't use because it is small and i don't want to buy replacements. i use a "Faber Castell DUST-FREE 18 71 20 Clean and Soft Erasing" as an eraser for the KERRY pencil. for lead, i recomend using "Pentel super hi-polymer leads. i chose the 0.7mm version out of pure preferance... i write with heavy hands and require thick lead sizes (i haven't broken any lead yet... AMAZING for me). i have no complaints with this pencil, in fact i love everything about it, the way the cap recaps on the other side and adds the perfect balance while writing, the look of the grille and metallic black finish (its survived many drops... not even a scratch), and most of all how smooth/comfortably it writes which is important when you have hours and hours of tutors, make up work, and even pleasure writing ahead of you (its best use). i deeply thank pentel and all of its manufacturors as well as goldenflyfisher (my shipper)for this (yet another) wonderful product by pentel. if any-one has any question about this pencil leave it in as a review for this item... i will check daily and get back to you (i have little - no doubt that you love this pencil).p.s. the pen i chose (5 stars... two thumbs up) is the "Pilot Varsity disposable fountain pen - black ink"

Saw that art teacher Lee Hammond uses this and swears by it so though I have other mech pencils (3 Alivin DraftMatics) I decided to check it out. Less than 8 hours in, I can see what all the fuss is about. It's pretty spiffy all the way around. Love the cap to protect the point, and the feel especially.A few things, though-It doesn't come with instructions. Nothing on their www site that I could find either. If you want to know how to change the leads, where to find the eraser, and even how to work it, this is one case where reading the questions and the reviews here will help you. You get the pencil in a plastic box with a clear cover. It comes with the infamous small eraser and 4? leads installed. Not sure if they're HB or 2B. That's it. Still, would it have killed them to put a few instructions in with it, instead of making customers search through the hundreds of reviews to find answers? I could have docked them a star for this, but it is a stellar item. Also, a reviewer said to beware of a change in quality. It seems pretty high quality to me thus far. I will watch out for the advance getting loose though.Since it's a pencil geared for pros, I'm a bit surprised it doesn't come in more sizes that .05 and .07. I'll have to stick with my DraftMatics for those. Also, one thing on the DraftMatics that might have been nice to have is the lead indicator which you can rotate to indicate which kind of lead you have installed. It's on the outside of the DM and would diminish from the style of the Kerry, but perhaps on the inner lead tube...?Other than that? I'm keeping it. And, probably keeping it on me at all times, since it has the great cap, with the Click!

This pencil is probably the best ~13 bucks I ever spent. I love everything about this pencil. The sleeve (little metal bit at the tip) is the perfect size: long enough to use as a basic drafting pencil if necessary, but not too long that the lead loses its integrity when writing quickly. So its good for both writing and drafting :DIt's also pocket safe; the cap snaps snugly over the fixed sleeve. The lead-tube is metal and wide enough to hold a lot of lead at a time. If I remember correctly, it comes with 6 sticks of lead already inside. The only potential problem I see with the length of the lead-tube is that sometimes larger leads won't fit all the way into the tube because it is relatively shorter than most pencils. But that isn't too much of a worry; pentel lead @ 60 mm fits in perfectly. I like to use Pentel HB lead in my pencil; the pencil just seems made for using Pentel lead.I got the .7mm rather than the .5mm really as a matter of preference. I have a really heavy hand when I write, so I have to use at least .7mm lead. But despite the pressure I apply when writing, I haven't experienced any lead breaks with this pencil (which is AMAZING, especially because I've gone through about 30 sticks of lead so far).Some common, and valid complaints include an eraser that's too small and not using all of the lead. I got around the small eraser by making fewer mistakes and carrying around a Staedtler Mars Plastic eraser. As for lead, there's some ebay folks who sell legitimate Pentel lead at very decent prices. You can try to buy bulk lead on Amazon, but just make sure that the seller doesn't charge shipping for each pack of lead.The chrome grille looks pretty bitchin' too.