The pencil insert

General Mechanical Pencil Discussion
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That’s interesting, maybe Pentel did develop a fully automatic pencil plotter point. It would certainly explain why it was highlighted in a presentation about the Orenz.

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Exactly
PP10x, take a look at the bottom and the right of the picture

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S60+25→1985, S63+25→1988

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Wow, so they really do exist! That’s yet another MacGuffin for me to chase.

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Where did you find this picture?

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I wish I could read the date on the Sharp 9 in the top right corner. All I know is that it came out in the 1960’s. This would give me a better date.

Technically the Mechanica they are showing (0.5mm) came out in 1970. The 0.3mm Mechanica came out in 1968.

Also the Q1005 (and Q1007 & Q1009) Smash in the bottom right won the Good Design Gold Award in 1987, so it had to come out in 1986.

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The dates are progressing from left to right. Looks like 1974? coming after P20x at 1970.

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Somewhere I have that it came out in the 1960’s (and thus what I have in the Pentel Book), which would fit with the fact that it does not have a guide pipe on the tip, which the Pentel 11 (0.5/0.7/0.9/1.1) did starting in 1967. But the 1960’s may have been an assumption on my part due to it not having a guide pipe.

The first catalog I find the Sharp 9 in is the 1970 One-Sheet, that does NOT include the P200 (so that came out in late 1970, which explains why it had the newer Pentel logo from the start).

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I see the dilemma. It’s so plausible for the Sharp 9 to have a 60s debut; why would Pentel make a NEW 0.9 model in 197x when 0.5 was already so popular? The weight of evidence seems to indicate the date in the photo is wrong.

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Here

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I would love to get over there for one of these meetings.

I did notice one pencil I have not seen before. On the 6th image, on the right page, 4th from the top. It is a For Film pencil I have not seen before. I am surprised they don’t have the PF500 series instead of the PF330 series though.

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Another point in the late-60’s era for the Sharp 9 is that most of the clips have the old typeface script for Pentel. In the Pentel book, the top Black and Red have the new logo on the clip, but the other 6 all have the old logo.

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