@cytherian, I ended up taking your advice and going straight to Blick. Definitely a better pencil than the Studio.
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The Blick Premiers are great pencils, but a little bit on the heavy side. How do you find the Sakura 303? Every picture and review I’ve seen of it suggests that the knurling is cosmetic at best.
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All of the pencils in this picture are essentially the same, just swapping parts really.
I do like the Sakura. For a couple dollars, it’s difficult to dislike it.
Is that Sakura 303 essentially a white-labeled Alvin Draft/matic DM0x? Or was the Alvin a White labeled sakura?
There are a lot of pencils in that vein, but they look a bit too similar for it to be a coincidence…
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I’m fairly certain that the OEM for all of those are Kotobuki. I’ve taken apart my fair share of these and the core mechanisms are identical.
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Yes?!
The old-school draft/matic DM0x’s are Kotobuki white-labels as well?
edit: zooming in, the grip on that sakura is a lot less gnarly-looking than the alvin of old… so at the very least that’s different.
Nice choice – I see you bought two of the Premier. They’re really inexpensive if you buy directly from Blick. About $12 after tax.. The knurling could be more aggressive. But for the price? It’s a major bargain.
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The price and my inability to say no are why I bought them both. I do like them. I think the ks02 is more to my liking though. I’m glad I bought them.