Oh well…
I’d like to think that I have my holy grail… one of Lindsay Wilson’s PG5 pencils, but it’s truly just a matter of time until I discover something else.
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Oh, trust me, it won’t be a challenge.
I’ve already bought a few Japanese NOS pencils off Ebay since joining this forum, it won’t be long until I find something I reallllly like.
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Where are you located?
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Roughly Chicago, IL, so Asian stock is pretty new to me. I’d not traditionally been interested in it since I prefer metal builds, but a lot of the old stock is metal so it intrigued me.
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River, you’ll not regret when you buy one of Lindsay’s creation. I have several classics and his mechanical pencil is on the same high ground.
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That IJ instruments is beautiful!
Be careful when looking too much at vintage stock, your bank account won’t like it 
Actually, what I dislike the most isn’t the monetary aspect, but rather the emotional aspect. Obsessing over something we don’t have and disregarding what we do have.
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Well said.
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Couldn’t have said it better. This always happens, I spend a lot of time coveting a piece and after I buy it I start coveting the next one, it’s an endless search.
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Oh trust, I’m aware.
I have 3 of his pieces now, and soon to (hopefully) be 4 if this Knockology x IJ collab goes through 
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My bank account dislikes me as is! no need to push it further into madness
I’d completely agree with that last sentence, very well said. I try to rotate pencils, ultimately every other day between high-end and lower-end pencils. It keeps me appreciating the things I’ve spent so much on.
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Yes, it does take some self-control to avoid the obsession, especially when there’s fear that prices will keep going up. They all have to a degree, with some far more than I would’ve ever anticipated, and others barely 1~5%.
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Am I the only person who vote for Mitsubishi uni Clifter, a $1.00 mechanical pencil made for student? It’s has no fancy functions or mechanism, but super reliable. And most importantly, it’s the beginning of the dream. If I didn’t buy it from that stationery store near the bus station in that afternoon 15 years ago, I won’t start addicted to mechanical pencil and all those holy grail like H-5005 5050 ATS3000 KS5000 EXCALIBUR would only be mechanical garbage to me 
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I can’t believe the fabled man from reddit/r/mechanicalpencils is posting here. I read your posts on reddit about several holy grails. Have you had any more pieces added to the collection recently? Are you still searching for any pencil? When will we have pictures of the treasure chest kkkk?
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You were so fortunate to hit the timing when you did, Xiao. It afforded you to pick up some of the most rare of mechanical pencils. Still relatively expensive back then, but now the value has shot up dramatically.
On the other hand, there is a mechanical pencil renaissance at hand. I don’t think we’ve seen so much technological advancement in such a short time before. I do wonder if we’ve hit a ceiling, though. I don’t see any payoff to developing more lead feeding technology, like perpetual automatic (keeps feeding until reservoir is empty and user didn’t have to manually intervene). The QX PN305 had that feature, right? Probably too expensive to develop today.
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Thanks for you appreciation 
I’m not a fabled man but a normal mechanical pencil collector. The only difference is that collecting pencils is really something prior to all the others. I do want a PS5 and I can definitely afford it, but I have been hesitating for half an year already But I won’t hesitate for half a second if it is a pencil I’m looking for.
I have been collecting all the time, and I promise I won’t stop until my whole hunting list complete. So there are new pieces coming in recently. I do want to finish collecting a whole series then post them altogether, for example the complete alpha matic collection on the internet for the first time. That’s why I seldomly post(because I am not finished most of the series yet). One interesting piece I recently got is the fully transparent skeleton Pilot H-1005 that I had been seeking for years…
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I don’t think I am that fortunate in comparison to some of my friends who started 10 years before I did and paid only 100k yen for a H-5005, but I am definitely fortunate compared to them because I really dare to catch some “high risk” opportunities. I remember I got my first Pilot Automatic in 2014, when no one in China knows anything about it, not even its name. I saw one for sale on Yahoo auction and I immediately realized its value(without knowing anything about it), and finally won it for 42,500 yen. At that time I was a graduate student from high school and had only $200 a month from my parents, and that Automatic was about my ２months’ living budget. Same thing repeated once and once in the next decade since then, I got many of my holy grail like the Sakura ATS or KS when nobody cares about them.
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Ah, so YOU are the one you grabbed it! I was wondering.
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I can see it fine?
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