[Request] -- detailed photo comparisons of the Pentel QX and Orenz Nero

[cytherian]

I haven’t been able to find anything very useful on detailed comparisons of the Pentel QX PN305 and Orenz Nero PP3005. If someone here owns both, would you be able to share some photos here? It would be very interesting to see direct length & width, plus closeup of nose cone and back-end eraser covers (on and off).

Thanks!

Btw, I posted about the Nero back in 2024 with this photo below and I don’t know where it originally came from:

Homage to the Pentel orenznero

Regarding the state of mechanical pencil innovations and technologies, there’s so much going on in recent years to easily say there is a second golden era at hand for this ubiquitous writing instrument. The first era was not so well defined, as innovations were scattered widely about. But sometime in the late 1960’s some impressive changes were afoot in mechanical pencil design, engineering, and innovations. Within the next decade, some laudable advancements were made, mostly coming from Japan a…

[Just in case anyone is interested, @xiaozhenyang4444 posted about the QX PN305 on Reddit long before Knockology existed, HERE]