2 of Mr Rossi’s leadholder designs alongside the TA+d (TreAsia Design) Fiber pencil in 0.7mm. Because I’ve loaded almost all my 0.7 pencils with 2B, and I currently have H leads in both the Designer 8 and D568, the 2mm leadholders are actually producing sharper lines as I sketch compared to the 0.7s.
On X, Lucio has remarked that my D568 in aluminum is an early model that has been discontinued.
This lineup certainly begs a question about who was first with the diagonal chops.
Also begs the question - who wore it better? In both designs, either the diagonal chops are out of place or the tips are out of place. The chop is nice, but the rest of the design speaks a different language, so I feel a little unsettled looking at them. I feel more unsettled with TA+d because I don’t like the tip on any account. At least Lucio’s front end is beautiful, if not cohesive with the tail end.
What do you think of the TA+d?
The Fiber… strangely grows on you but is also a flawed design. The obvious draw is the wood accent, be it bamboo as in the original TA+d spec, or ‘acacia wood’ as it is now spec’d by TaG. For the pencil, and I believe for the OLD ballpoint, the angled wood button makes you want to touch it and activate the knock. In TaG’s current site, the BP is now a twist mechanism (far as I can tell) and the wooden bit is squared off… purely decorative. Similar case on the FP, or should I say, worse – because the end is angled and obscures even more of the non-functional wooden bit. So for me, the visual and tactile charm only remains in the MP.
