I love that! Is is wood or the “brown stone” version?
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That actually looks like compressed cork or wood chips embedded in resin!
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Now you have me wondering - it appears to be wood chips in a resin because it doesn’t feel cold as I’d imagine something made out of stone chips in a resin would. I can’t confirm 100% though.
I’ll weigh it later this evening and compare weights to a couple of other Tikkys. Any other ideas to determine material?
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Yea it’s not going to be actual stone. I just think it’s been called “Brown Stone” before.
Is this an official piece or one of these aftermarket Japanese sensations?
There’s one on Etsy at the moment. But it’s pricey.
https://www.etsy.com/de-en/listing/1802741499/
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Definitely wood
It’s an original Tikky model according to the (unofficial?) Rotring Museum
https://rotringmuseum.com/rotring_item.php?id=206
…I weighed several Tikky’s from different eras, all without tip, cap, lead, and eraser, and they all weighed 7g. Either Rotring were extremely consistent or I need a new coffee scale. Probably the latter :-/
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I wrote it before, but its only based on sellers statements (but it was a Hamburg seller with lot of rotring stuff): its recycled material from mercedes dash boards.
One of the tikky grails btw. I missed it in the mentioned auction.
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I recently got this Rotring mechanical pencil and have trouble identifying the exact model.
(other pictures here, since I cannot embed more than one : https://imgur.com/a/PPJY7EP )
It is the pen on the bottom (the other pen is a 400 duo, included for size reference).
So, that is a Tikky MP that has:
- 0.5mm lead size
- single push
- a full metal body
- a metal lead reservoir
- a fully retractable sleeve (3 or 3.5mm)
- a domed eraser cap, no lead marking
- a thin grip
- a conical tip
- no markings on the body (worn off?)
- just “rotring” written on the clip
- a red band on top of the grip
Most attributes would point me toward a Tikky metallic S, but the red ring and the domed eraser are not consistent with what I found in any catalog.
Would that be an early prototype? A later unknown variant?
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welcome to the forum @Criterium
The bottom one - I do not see a button to retract the tip. can you take it apart and post a picture? Also @Dux who runs the rOtring Museun is a member here and may be able to give you a better answer.
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Thanks for the welcome and for this discussion!
There is no separate side button to retract the tip. Push the top cap to extend the tip, push it again to extend the lead, push it and the tip at the same time to get the tip back inside for storage.
I did take it apart as far as I was comfortable to go. See the second picture:
Edit : I forgot to mention that it takes 3 pushes on the top cap to fully extend the tip and that the lead will only really start coming out of the sleeve after that. So it looks like you can kind of choose between 3 sleeve lengths. You can write on any of these positions, with the lead is just barely protruding from the sleeve. The sleeve will retract during use to expose more lead.
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Hmm interesting
I’d be curious what Dux and some of the other experts here have to say.
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This is interesting. I have so many Tikkys, but somehow I never take them apart. Looking at your photo, I am impressed that the red element is aluminum and not plastic. Surely some of the cheaper models use plastic here and not aluminum.
Also, I am sorry I am no help with your initial query. Unfortunately, I have gradually dissolved into the uninformed Tikky collector who can’t be bothered to distinguish specific models from one another.
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Looks to be tikky metallic S 0.5 but with red ring which is quite unusual.
Reminds me of this one and could easily be paired with it.
https://rotringmuseum.com/rotring_item.php?id=350
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Grey or gray…
recently received two grey Tikky’s: a light grey and a medium, textured, matte grey.
white, light grey, matte grey, & mica grey
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Very satisfying tone progression!
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LOL, thanks!
Now for some color! … Tikky II pencils just arrived from the Rotring Museum, thank you @Dux for the beautiful pencils!
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