Excellent video, as usual.
On a side note, it is quite common to come across Uchida drafting sets similar to the one you show but with pencils from other brands (examples here and here). Do you know if the set came without pencils, for the user to fill with their favourite brand, or do you think that users replaced the original pencils after they broke, or were sold?
Thank you - I’m glad you liked it. I am not sure on the orig contents. I was tipped off about this set by @griffisu (Thank you again). Here is griffsu’s OP and link to Yahoo
Great job, Patrick! Only thing bugging me was that the cutout of the gold E model seemed to have it’s tail sheath not fully inserted? Did that affect the measurements for overall length?
Hi @Pdunc67 : at around 5:26 you say that the box contained as well an erasing shield, some paperwork, a plastic ruler, and a cleaning rag. I think the plastic ruler is in fact a plastic protractor (measuring angles rather than distances). Not sure if it worth correcting the voiceover for this, I just felt a bit confused by the mismatch between the name and the actual object I was looking at in the frame.
Circumstantial evidence: Only the Drawing Sharp D was sold in a stand alone red velvet lined hard case. E models came in cardboard boxes, or the rarer green PVC triangular case. The few catalog scans we have seen also price the D (¥2000) above the E (¥1500) and S (¥1000) or KN (¥1000).