Loose Arrows has a great post about preferring thick pencils and thick leads. Personally, I enjoy them as well and have found a fat ole’ learner’s pencil to be just the thing for days of really sore hands and/or really big notes.
“I’ve become a big fan of jumbo pencils with triangular cross sections. I’m not sure whether it’s because they remind me of wankel rotary engines, or because I have long fingers and do a lot of writing. I’m particularly impressed with the Staedtler Norris Triplus Jumbo in bumblebee plumage. It has great balance, nice grip, and best of all, the 4mm HB lead puts down a line as dark and dense as antimatter.”
Read more at Loose Arrows, “A blog about sharp things” that features a lot of good stuff about pencils. Also, see previous mentions of the Ergosoft, from Scruss.
(Images, Loose Arrows.)
We have just discovered your review on our STAEDTLER Noris Club triangular pencils :) How nice you like it!
We’d love to meet you on our facebook fanpage http://www.facebook.com/STAEDTLER.headquarters – it would be great if you became a fan, too, and shared your experience.
Hope to welcome you soon and best regards from STAEDTLER headquarters in Germany, Yvonne
Thanks Yvonne!
Now if they will just make a pencil extender for these bad boys all would be well.
Very true!
Amen!
I’m a longtime user and fan of Dixon Beginners’ pencils- which are of the same thickness as a fountain pen. Highly recommended, however they require an art-pencil style sharpener.