Do you need some lead in your pencil?
You do if you’re using the Modern Fuel ‘mechanical’ pencil.
When we were kids they were called propelling pencils and were considered very posh. They were often included in a set with a fountain pen and made totally useless gifts for people when you didn’t know what the hell to get them.
The idea with the propelling pencil is it’s a mechanical masterpiece which extends and holds the lead as it’s needed. There’s none of that whacking the 2b Staedtler in the sharpener on Sir’s desk and grinding it down to a nub, just to give the class a laugh. And being made of titanium, stainless steel, bronze or copper, you don’t want to be chewing on the Modern Fuel while trying to work out the area of gyprock needed to cover the under-stair area on the current job. Especially not when the Modern Fuel sets you back US$200. The dentist’s bill and the damage to the very exxy writing implement would mean costs would soon mount up.
The Modern Fuel has no plastic parts, and for an extra US$45 or so it’ll be supplied engraved.
It looks like no one in Australia is stocking them, so you’ll have to log on to modernfuel.com if you really want to dump a large amount of cash on equipment that could be replaced with a chippie’s pencil for $1.95.