Why You NEED an Overengineered Japanese Mechanical Pencil! ✍🏼🤔

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0:00 Intro

0:24 Sliding Guide Sleeve
1:02 Auto-Extending Eraser
1:29 Lead Clutch
2:10 Rotating Lead
2:57 Shaker Mechanism
3:32 Tiniest Tip
4:12 Auto-Extending Lead

4:45 Outro
5:04 End Screen Links

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[emmeroni-the-bean]

My issue here is that I only want one, incredibly overengineered Japanese mechanical pencil -- with every feature listed in this video

[nobyra]

0:42 Suspension
1:46 Clutch
2:37 Power steering
4:25 Automatic transmission
Soon: split rear differential: "this pen splits the power from your hand to the pen, allowing bigger handling on the paper. This ensures maximum grip and downforce on the main straights."

[electrojag]

The team that built these pencils are heavily undervalued. We need them designing for much larger operations. I am so impressed by these pencils.

[MarshmallowEclipse]

Preventing the lead from breaking obviously reduces waste and prevents the annoying experience of having your lead snap, but I personally am terrified of lead breakage because of a freakish thing that happened to me in 10th grade. I was writing notes in a class and my lead snapped, and a piece about a third of a centimeter flew up off the paper and stuck on my eyeball. I couldn't close my eyelid without it rolling over the lead so the teacher sent me and a friend to the bathroom and I held my eye under the faucet for a while. When I brought my face back up, my friend said the lead was right on the corner of my eye, and she plucked it out with her nails.

[firstnamenulllastnamenull]

The only one that feels genuinely overengineered is the auto retractable eraser. I can't imagine a situations that would be useful when you can simply always have your eraser at the tip

[JetPens]

We referred to pencil graphite as "lead" in this video -- we know this is a misnomer and that it doesn't actually contain lead, but the term has stuck around. Many manufacturers call it lead, so we have followed their lead (no pun intended!).

[anonymous-tsih]

A combination of the rotating lead and the auto-extending mechanism would be awesome.

[existingclaire]

2:58 I actually have this pen! But I didn't know it had that kind of mechanism so I immediately rushed to pencil case and tried it! Works 100%, I've always wondered why it was heavy like there was metal inside it but I now know!

[christine.palamara]

Edit: JetPens first used a different title for this post which was, "Are Japanese mechanical pencils OVERENGINEERED?" Therefore, this was the context with which my original comment was made.

Japanese pencils and pens are never "over engineered". These features are incredible, and have been wonderfully engineered for many years. I opened my father's desk drawer (he passed in 2012), and discovered so many old Pentel's, Pilot's, UniBall's and Zebra's. I remember my dad being into pens, so it was cool to see all that those familiar brands.

[chronosoul]

These pencils should be the standard in the market.
It's not overengineered, if they create a solution as efficient as possible.
Because the implementation for problems they resolve, I have never seen any other mechanical pencils resolve them, until this video.

[gwenstxcy]

Currently working for an office/art supply distributor in my country and it's so fascinating knowing what the different mechanical pencils we sell are actually for and what features they have. Before, i thought they just differed in looks but theyre much more than that. Thank you.

[Twilights]

i have the Orenznero; it is relatively expensive, but in the one year I had this pencil, I've never needed to add more lead because of how the lead never broke (think it came with 3 leads inside). The black body of the pencil looks and feels amazing, without the usual plasticky feel. The centre of gravity of the pencil is close to the tip, so it feels so easy to control. It requires a bit more force to write with, but after a while I got used to it. It is now one of 2 pencils I use, the other which is just a wooden pencil for shading. 10/10 would recommend

[perialis]

as a Japanese student, i can say when you’re using one of these you feel like the grade top student.

and my wish before i graduate middle high school,
is that there will be.. a legendary mechanical pencil that has all of the features in the video and im saving up till like 200 dollars to buy and flex

[emilyr]

...well now I want a mechanical pencil with auto-rotating, auto-extending lead and an auto-extending eraser! (Though honestly I find the feel of a mechanical pencil in my hand is more important than other features, and so far none have beaten an ancient one my dad used in college - I'm not even sure of the brand.)

[polipix_]

I like this video because it’s something I need but I didn’t expect a video would be made about it, so this is cool

[damecali]

Thank you so much for this video. The lead clutch was what I wanted but didn't know if it existed or not.

[deanchur]

I bought a Kuru Toga nearly 10 years ago; best $6 (at the time) I ever spent. When you're trying to write kanji/hanzi, it's a godsend to have a continual lead thickness to try and keep the complicated characters legible while still staying within a 8mm line spacing.

[Mentalrose]

I use the Kuru Toga by preference constantly. It's so good that my "what's wrong with a normal yellow pencil" father now reaches for my mechanical instead of his own pencil all the time. xD My Kuru Toga is now at least 3 years old and I have worn most of the paint off of a decent part of it!

[pyrosimba]

I use the Pentel Orenz Nero. Best pencil, and writing utensil in general, I've ever used. And perfect for cursive handwriting. Just don't use it on really thin sheets of paper (e.g. engineering draft paper) as the 0.2-0.3mm lead can tear it if you're not careful.

[brineich]

These all sound great and it's nice to know they are being made available again, though not sure of the cost. I still have several of the 30 year old Scripto 0.5 P200 pencils that were stupid inexpensive. As far as I know they were the only ones to feature the spring loaded lead at the time. Sadly they don't make them anymore last time I checked. I love 'em!