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Looks slick :star_struck: … it doesn’t look to have any flashlight features though, correct?

I found the Olight Oclip flashlights to work really well for their size. I carry the larger Pro S clipped inside my backpack.

(I don’t like or use the Rhodia; it’s in the photo because it’s orange and for scale :joy:)

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Correct, it is simply a pen. I wish that they still made it and the O’Pen Mini 2. It had a “forever” pencil on the other end which was deployed using the same bolt that activated the pen tip. I had one but lost it. I think you can still find them on some online stores but they are, unfortunately, discontinued.

I have collected a couple other Olight’s over the years but I use the Arkfeld Ultra as my EDC.

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True, I actually thought about that, I just personally don’t have a label maker that can print that small of fonts. Also I kinda prefer the background inside the indicator window to be the silver body color instead of white or black

Business opportunity alert.

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Special Lineup of Summer Vacation 2026

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Received a nice little Buyee shipment today.

From left to right:
Pilot Clutch Point
Pilot Grance black marble
Pilot Capless
Mitsubishi Silvexa-5
Mitsubishi (unnamed)
Pentel P1085
Newman reverse etched Super

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The Grance ‘marble’ series with the ball-clip feel like a nice counterpart to the swirly-acrylic Itoya Romeo No. 3 pens :slight_smile:

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I can totally see that. It’s an elegant clip style imo. Not too flashy, but elevated enough.

The depth of Pilot’s catalog is captivating and surprising to say the least. They definitely utiziled their skills and, undoubtedly, their tooling for high-end fountain pens for a lot of their lesser-known executive and luxury mechanical pencil models.

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Actually on my work desk today:

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I have a couple of GRAFO 5205.

Is your older one better or different in any way or just the same as most other KINs?

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I couldn’t really say since leadholders just aren’t my thing, I have a handful of them and only this one is a KIN.

It takes just as well 2 ; 2,2 ; 2,5 and 3 mm leads and even a pilot super grip ballpoint refill.

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The greens are pretty darn similar and the wood is too.

Top to bottom -

Mitsubishi Pure Malt

Pilot Timeline Past

Sakura craft_lab 006

Take a close look at the tip of the Pilot.

cheers,

elliot

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What is that Tombow?

These were launched I believe last year… really delicate pastel colored thin pencils. Was surprised to find them in a random shop in the UK. There was a lot of Penco and Ohto stuff too!

Does it have a model name?

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Kimonogatari

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Oh that Staedtler 05, Michal — Super nett!

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