Have you ever held a Gomdale though?
They feel very good in the hand despite the additional eraser length at the top.
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Damn I kinda hate it not gonna lie but I don’t know why I expected something different considering the TK has an eraser too…
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Not specifically, but I have tried the twist-ease and couldn’t get past the wobbly eraser. The PD eraser is held in with a metal holder that keeps it in place when using it and lets you use the eraser right to the end.
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Excellent and very important topic. I swear I was just going to bring something up about this the other day, but this issue has many facets and much to consider, because, well… I think there are more good pencils (personal tastes aside) with erasers than without, but that’s because there are far more pencils with erasers. Remember that some pencils have the eraser inside the body, not under the cap (in that case, the eraser cap would no longer be called an eraser cap but a knock button).
By the way, I should mention that one of my favorite pencils has an absolutely stupid design because it doesn’t work without the eraser, which is the Lami Safari. It doesn’t click if the eraser isn’t set.
Mitsubishi M5-50 does not have an eraser
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The question came about through me bringing together the Demi variants and their Golden Axe counterpart. At the same time I’ve been trying to find the different Pentel PS pencils and it occurred to me “The Golden Age” of pencils and how I wanted to do a post about them.
That prompted me to want to find others that I believed were similar in “flavor” so to speak so that I could show this period a bit more comprehensively.
Then I asked myself the question that I’m now asking.
Just a thought really….
This period of pencils really did come out with some nicely balanced pieces.
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Pencils without erasers often incorporate a more robust and durable jam rod than those that are attached to the eraser. What years does the period we call the golden age of mechanical pencil production cover? What year would fall in the middle of this period, perhaps 1970-71, or a little further into the 80s?
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The immediate timeframe would’ve probably stopped around 1970 or early 1970 considering it was the Pentel Sharp and the Demi that I had in mind first.
Then it would have to drift much later if we’re putting the accugraphs into consideration since my only initial criteria was “no eraser”.
I’d say for purposes of what I was intending, it would be early 70s.
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Another eraserless pencil worth mentioning is the Eagle/Berol Turquoise Eagle 20. Released in late 1968, according to @greatpencils, it falls within the period we are referring to. In this case it wouldn’t be eraser cap but twist knob (even though the instruction box says “turn cap”).
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I have no idea what that is!
Tombow V472 “Titan”, from the “La Nave” series, deigned by Spanish visionary Daniel Nebot.
Masterful.
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Eolo @Leonov talked about them quite a few times but I’ve never seen one in the flesh.
It’s unfamiliar to me at any angle.
The entire “La Nave” series is worth some search; of the four horsemen it is composed of, I have to say that the Titan (or “Tecnic”, as it was probably called originally within the Spanish studio which brought it to life) is by far my favourite, with the super-weirdly shaped España coming right after (I would have never thought it was fun to write with, but it actually delivers) — the Mano comes in third place just because the placement of the niches for the fingers do not suit my style of gripping the barrel. The Oceanic is notoriously dangerous because of its rubber coating, but it can be very comfortable at times.
Speaking of that series, I am looking for the Titan special desk stand, which I assume is quite difficult to find, and one day I will end up dropping an email to Mr. Nebot himself, to put a couple of questions regarding his long collaboration with Tombow, and especially a couple of items he and his team worked on. 
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There is one up on Mercari now.
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And another one:
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This one was in perfect condition, but someone was faster than me 
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