2.0mm Mechanical Pencil, Wooden Barrel, With Lead Sharpener, #1 B, Black Lead, 1ea (OTP-680NST), natural wood color w/sharpener

Love this pencil. What a nice looking lead holder. The wood is real and smells great like cedar should. The Lead it comes with is nice quality. I did sand down the ends of the pencil lightly to make the pencil even more smooth and love the way it feels. The advancing mechanism is like a mechanical pencil and it works great. you get small advancements and no play in the lead.

I have to admit, I love this pencil. It's a mechanical pencil that feels just like a regular pencil - the wood barrel is just a fraction thicker than a standard pencil. The satin finish to the wood barrel makes it easy to hold.I bought 4h leads for it to make light undersketches for watercolors. The great thing about using a 2mm lead is that you can tilt it to create thicker lines, but using a hard lead means the sketch is less likely to wash out, making your watercolor look dirty.It comes with a very different looking sharpener (meant for sharpening the lead only), but it works great. It's very easy to change/refill leads too. You can pull out the clicker off the end and drop it in that way, but I think it's easier to just hold the clicker down and drop the new lead in through the point. No messy wood chips, very comfortable to hold.

As the heading says, I love this lead holder. I really appreciate the push click advance of the lead. There is a good weight and balance to the pencil and it just feels right. I do have to admit that I prefer another brand of lead but I love this pencil! The added sharpener is a nice touch and the product packaging is very tasteful. My only complaint is that it would be nice touch in production if they would feather the octagon of the pencil smoothly into the lower lead ferule.

This is one of the finest lead holders money can buy. If you love writing with wood case pencils this may be the lead holder for you. It is made out of quality cedar, rigid and sturdy while still being lightweight. It is the perfect hexagon shape, not too wide, and the length feels comfy. It weighs in at 10.5 grams (with lead in) and has a really nice balance. The one difference in feel from a wood case pencil is that it has a rounded conical metal tip, rather than a classic triangular conical tip, but this is super super nit picky. I use it with an eraser cap, they do fit but are very very tight and can be annoying when advancing lead, not an issue for me. The lead is amazing, so smooth and dark, but you will need to sharpen often. I would suggest using a long point sharpener like a Uni lead pointer.The one downside to this pencil for me is that it is an incremental clutch. I personally like the feel of a drop clutch as it grabs the lead right at the tip and gives you a very stable point to write/draw from, much more similar to wood case. Many incremental clutch designs let the lead wobble ever so slightly within the tip sleeve. With that said Kitaboshi has done an exceptional job at dealing with this issue, there is the tiniest tiniest amount of wobble from the lead. Most people would not notice and is a total non issue, but I can notice when switching between wood case and my other clutch pencils.For now I still prefer my Koh-I-Noor Versatil 5211 and 5201, both are great balanced hexagonal lead holders. Downside to 5211 is that it is plastic and bends a bit when writing/drawing. The 5201 is the sturdiest pencil I have, but the downside is that it is a bit heavy for me and my hand gets tired from time to time.Still waiting for someone to make a quality drop clutch wood case Lead Holder!!!

I found this pencil very refreshing to use. Brought back some of the more romantic and true feel and use of a regular pencil. This isn't a clutch pencil, its a pump actin pencil with a very slight but pleasant cedar like aroma with it. The scent of the cedar helped me relax while using it. The weight can take some getting used to. Ad your mind automatically thinks its a regular pencil. The balance is excellent and the punp action function is great and holds the 2mm graphite very secure. However my only issue with this pencil is the tip cap came loose very easily in my daypack after only 3 day's. Id make sure to keep this in a pencil box or organizer to protect it and to keep it from breaking. Overall i like it a lot, it gives your hsnd a pleasant grip and the excellent balance allowed me to use it in the wand technique and for more direct sketching and detailed drawings. The weight is Great afer you get used to it. Using it once you get the hang of it doesn't leave in roads on your paper, depending on your choice of paper though. Im pleased and happy i bought it. Every bit of a more real pencil sensation gives you great freeness and relaxed approach to drawing. Plus i love the slight aroma of cedar wood. Very pleased with this pencil. Definitely recommend for helping artists relax and have fun again instead of focusing on the perfect image this pencil gives back that old school free feeling of just holding a pencil and letting your heart and mind lead your hand. Great buy

Really good, interesting take on pencil.