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[DesertBorn]

Very nice!  I'll post up some pics of some of my pencils a bit later when I get to my other computer.  I used to have one of the Kerry's, but I haven't seen it in a while.  Lately I've been picking up some of the Koh-I-noor's (Super Pro Mecha) which was just discontinued, so I got in before the prices shot up to $110 bucks, and some of the new Zebras (the 'Tect 2way and the DelGuard).  The 'Tect 2way' is a hell of a pencil!  I used to have some of the F series Zebras but they weren't my favorite (too short).

I don't see one of the ubiquitous Pentel 20x series pencil anywhere in there! <GASP!!>  Everyone's GOTTA' have one of those!  Better get one quick though, because the legend has been discontinued in Japan, and the only ones left in North America are the Special Edition colors.  The prices are still inexpensive, but the Pentel P-205 certainly, and the P-207 are gotta' have's.  The P-203 is cool, but it's a recent edition to the 20x line.  The P-200 Series has now been replaced with the GraphGear 500 Series, which is a great pencil in its own right, but it's not the "Original" mechanical pencil we all know and love, the legend...the P-205!!   Start looking for one tomorrow...wherever you shop!  Seriously!  You will be absolutely kicking yourself when that $6 dollar pencil is selling for $250 bucks!! 

You can thank me later!

I just looked through my entire pen and pencil museum and I did not find any of the P20x pencils! I'll go acquire one asap. I could have sworn I had one or two of them around but "people" have a tendency to "borrow" them unless they are kept somewhere special.

I looked up the Text 2way man I've never seen one in person before as far as I can remember, they look like something from a sci-fi movie, very cool. Speaking of that, have you ever heard of The Atomic Pen?

In 1958, Parker had the bright idea to use a little bit of radioactive material in a pen to change the line widths, probably at the touch of a button. If you've seen Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, you've seen one of the few prototypes of the Atomic Pen (made as a ballpoint sans the radioactive material). It was seen in the Pan-Am Orion shuttle floating around in microgravity while Floyd took a snooze. Here's an article and a picture of it: https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-radioactive-...ocket-sure
No production units were ever made. What a cool looking pen though, too bad they didn't put them into production as non-radioactive ball points.

Made me think of Dr. Who’s screwdriver thingee!