New 925-15-XX Metal

[DarkwingDuck]

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Release End of April

[pearsonified]

I’ll be damned. I like it!

[Pdunc67]

[perpetuallypencil]

STAEDTLER 925 15 Metal

New from STAEDTLER Japan: The 925 15 Metal. The automatic translation reads “This is the first Staedtler mechanical pencil to feature a metal grip with an integrated tip and grip” which sounds appealing. – The long grip reminds me of the Pilot S10. It will be available in white (0.3, 0.5) and black (0.3, 0.5, 0.7, 0.9) at the end of April (I found it on Reddit.)

[DarkwingDuck]

Honestly

The grip is the only reason I don’t buy the 925-35 because it’s just not pleasing to the touch for me.

Otherwise I would’ve collected all the green and yellow because that picture from @Heath is so unbelievably beautiful…

This grip looks very nice AND I can get it in 0.9

I’m pretty excited.

Staedtler didn’t overprice the reg so I don’t imagine this will be unaffordable either

[Ras]

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[Ras]

It’s 1320 yen after tax, so around 12 USD? Since I think most japanese stationery sell for a dollar per 100 yen

[Ras]

I’ve been looking for an S10 killer. Never found one in the past decade. This might be it.

Edit: I was probably wrong about that. I personally feel a bit disappointed as I discover the metal 925 15 does not have a reverse taper at the grip/lead indicator area, and the fact that the upper barrel seems to be identical to that of the base 925 15, which means the metal grip is probably as thin as the upper barrel of the base 925 15 (that’s 8.3mm, even thinner than the Graph 1000). Not that it makes the pen worse by any means, just I personally would prefer a 9.5mm grip like the base 925 15/75.