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Japanese is always good quality because they don’t have morons with art degrees holding managerial positions in tech or manufacturing companies like in the US

You could say pre-sharpened pencils are a bit DISAPPOINTING 🤣 #dadjokes

I like Bic razors as well. Economical as well as durable

I like the new one better!!

Hello can you send these to india i would love to use them as i have never used bic pens

It's back to school season so there are a lot of good deals of pens and other supplies out now if you want to review. TH-cam won't let me post links but the Pen + Gear ballpoint pens that are the US version of the Cello Trimate pens are on sale for 94 cents for 12 pens (but they only come in black). Then there's the dozen pack of Tru Red ballpoint pens at Staples (come in blue, black and red) for a little over $3, plus free shipping (my local Staples closed so I bought them online, they've had free shipping with no minimum since the pandemic.) Also the Pen and Gear 2-pack of gel pens for 88 cents (not a sale, they're always that cheap but they're a little too inky for me - they should come in a fine point).

The latest version of the Bic Crystal X-Bold writes just like a rollerball, I swear it does!

Hey, could you do a top 5 of your favorite pencils, pens, erasers and so on?

Hi, nice pencil sharpener!! They call them a "Swing Box"". The top flips open , as you point out. Then you swing the bottom out to empty it. Very nice find!! Made by Apsco.

When people talk about Mitsubishi, the first thing in the mind is all about Mitsubishi cars.

I am a big fan of Mitsubishi pencils. Japanese pencils, in general, seem to be very high quality. Even the mechanical leads from Pentel have a certain characteristic that is difficult to describe.

Hi Kevin, I was at my local Wal-Mart today in Hazleton, PA and they have all of their back to school stuff out. I wanted to let you know that Pen+Gear released a new version of their Pencils. It's a round jumbo pencil and it writes just as good, if not better, than the standard. Louie

I just bought the uni star Mitsubishi in 2b and I like how it writes and how clean the lines are when I sketch your review inspired me to get them.

Fun fact: "Mitsubishi" is a rough romanization of exactly what the company's logo depicts - three rhombuses (diamond shapes), that is. "Mittsu" means "three (small objects, counted)" and "hishi" means "rhombus", which becomes "bishi" when the two are fused together.

Thanks for another great review! I've only gotten into wooden pencils this year. You, for the writing aspect, and RixCanDoIt for the art aspect, have become my go-to channels for pencil reviews. While that has caused a hit to my wallet, it has certainly been cheaper than when I was collecting fountain pens and ink 😂! I must say that without your reviews, I wouldn't have discovered the joys of Mitsu-Bishi and Musgrave pencils. The Musgrave Harvest Pro has become my favorite writing pencil, along with the Mitsu-Bishi 9800. I don't have the 9852, but I do have the 9850. It says it's "for Office Use." Also, I totally agree with you on the darker lead writing. I spent my school years using F leads, but I guess old age has brought me over to the dark side 😂😂😂. Keep up the good work! Your reviews check all the boxes for me in what I want to know about a pencil--smoothness, ease of writing, erasability, and darkness. Thanks!

Hi, Kevin! I love, love, love Mitsu-Bishi pencils. I'm actually writing with a Mitsu-Bishi Uni 2B in my journal, today. I don't have any B grade pencils, but I'll have to get some soon. School supply season is upon us and I feel the draw of new pencils, pens, paper and other magical things!! Have a lovely day, Kevin!!

Sometimes when i watch you reviewing another fine, Japanese pencil, I wonder why I keep trying different pencils. What more could I possibly be looking for? Japan makes pencils which are as close to perfect as it's possible to get! (Of course, the answer is that I keep looking and I keep trying simply because I can't stop.)

How do you call a ball pen that doesn’t write? Pointless.

*Bowling peaked in the early 1950s, it's nothing like what it used to be. We used to go in the late 1980s, on Tuesday nights, but in 2024 I doubt there'd be a hobo there laying in the gutter.*

The bic's can be refilled, just pull off the eraser. The paper mate sharpwriter is supposedly non refillable, but there are youtube videos on how to do it. Bic does make 0.9 mechanical pencils, they are labeled xtra strong on the package.

another good one

I never heard of this brand but when I used erasermate pens in school many years ago they wrote and erased just fine. Apparently erasable ballpoint pens have gone down in quality since then like most other things made today. Too bad. To answer your question, in my day certain teachers wouldn't allow pencils but for people like me, I hated not being able to erase - white out was too messy and cumbersome to carry - so I used erasermate pens.

Hello there Can you send these pens to india just asking i personally have never used bic pens as these are not available here but i would love to use them Thanks

The Paper Mate Ink Joys are made in India and are quite nice. The issue I have most with green ballpoint pens is that the ink does not have enough yellow in it and it appears to be bluish green. I like a true grass green ink.

YEAH.! ♥

excellent, interesting

Those erasable pens did a number on lefties. The smudging was awful.

I love your videos all the pencils you have are so cool

It'd definitely be interesting to see a comparison with these against the pen+gear brand pencils.

I remember those old Scripto transluscent stick pens with the metal clip. If I remember correctly, the hexagonal barrel and ink tube was one piece with a hole at the top. They were horrible writers.

I don't know that much about calligraphy... but I wanted to ask, what type of calligraphy were you taught? Palmer or zaner bloser?

I love the sounds

I find Scripto pencils all the time, and I love them. I see from this review why I've never seen one of these pens in the wild. What a disappointment!

Oh god, this pen is awful. Clear case of trying to do two diametrically opposite jobs and failing at both. Pencil graphite erases because the pigment is deposited on top of the paper. It doesn't combine on the molecular level with the cellulose like pen ink, which infiltrates the fibers and attaches to them on such a scale that you can't detach them through mechanical means. It HAS to be a chemical solution. Even then, what's the point? Pens are used for permanence already, going against that principle invalidates their very nature. Don't try to re-invent the wheel, stationery brands. That money and effort is much better spent elsewhere.

Hi, Kevin! I remember these pens! Really I remember using the PaperMate Erasermate pen. As I recall, it wasn't a great erasable pen. Nowadays I use the Pilot Frixion pen, especially when writing in my planner. The technology has greatly improved over the years. I was fascinated to learn that the first successful erasable pen was made in the 1930's by Pelikan, a German company. Thanks for the video, Kevin. You sparked a fun learning experience, for sure!

5:23 Reminder to everyone that the blue eraser was NEVER designed to erase ink marks. That is a *_colossal_* myth kept alive by incompetent marketing. The gritty blue side of the two-color erasers are meant to erase _pencil marks on thick paper._ (I don't mean you, Kevin, I'm saying this as a general message.)

This is so interesting. I live in the Philippines and the erasable pen that’s famous here is the Pilot Frixion pens. I thought Pilot Frixion was the first erasable pen until this video. The ink in the Frixions are smoother as they are more akin to Gel Pens than oil based ball points. The way it works is that heat makes the ink translucent. So when you rub it enough, the heat wall “erase” the ink. It doesn’t really erase the ink because when you cool it back like put your writing in the refrigerator, the ink comes back. As a kid, my mind was blown by this technology, and this was used in essay-type exams when teachers prohibited pencils and erasures.

Did you try using an eraser from a friction pen?

Great video. Gosh, I remember having to use the Papermate erasable pens in middle school because my teachers included them in our mandated school supply lists. I abhorred them. I'm not sure what the Papermate erasable pens kick-started first: my love for pencils or my preference for Bic over Papermate.

Fabulous! You sound like Tom Selleck. YES? 😂

Dear Kevin can you send some pencils my way if you don't mind?

Would have liked a "smear" test with regard to which might dry faster on the paper when dragging the side of your hand across the writing.

do you use the palmer method on your cursive?

Semi-retired audio-electronics repair tech here; my decades-long usage of erasers isn't as an accessory to drawing or writing, but instead for cleaning and polishing electrical and electronic contacts on switches and relays, and cleaning oxidized terminals and chassis before soldering to them. Modern white plastic/vinyl erasers are ineffective for this; the erasers we use need to have some abrasive grit ---- silica, sand, pumice, fiberglas etc ---- imbedded in the eraser material. Old-school pencil-type erasers with the blue nylon brush on the other end (Faber-Castell, Staedtler, Sanford etc) are ideal for shaping into a chisel like point with a razor knife to get into tight areas to clean contacts, but the original ones were apparently made with natural latex rubber and have a tendency to dry up and crumble even though they're encased in a wood handle; and all the modern wooden-stick erases I've found use the soft white "plastic" eraser material, which is useless. We also frequently used a non-cordless, AC powered, inductive-motor eraser (made by Faber, Ebersoll and others), the type with a hollow center that accepts 1/4" diameter, 6 or 7" long eraser rods, which are fantastic for de-oxidizing metal prior to soldering; but the pink (lightly abrasive) and gray (more abrasive) eraser rods are seemingly no longer being manufactured and vintage new old stock eraser rods often dry up and turn brittle, crumbly and useless with age. Anyway, the AC powered erasers in conjunction with gray eraser rods will even remove the lacquer-like, green "solder-resist" coating from circuit boards. I also frequently use a fiberglass bristle "scratch brush" for cleaning connectors and circuit boards. For some purposes they work even better than the pencil eraser, although you have to take care not to get glass splinters stuck in your fingers (gloves are recommended). I own several small, inexpensive battery-powered erasers and have adapted the nubby/stubby, worn-down, leftover fiberglas brushes that are too short to use in the mechanical scratchbrush so that they'll fit the battery powered erasers, in place of the supplied, useless white plastic erasers. This works extremely well and, surprisingly, the "powered" glass brushes last longer and shed fewer glass fibers compared to when you use them in a manual scratch-brush. I did find miniature abrasive gray "Sun Dolphin" "sand" erasers from Seed, but theyre closer to 4.5 mm while the standard battery-powered erasers are designed for 5 mm erasers. If you have a line on sources for any of the eraser types I detailed above, I'd love to know! [EDIT ---- I filmed and posted a quickie video this morning of my various scratch brushes and powered draftsman's erasers, both battery and AC house current driven. It's on my channel].

Mitsubishi wins because it's still made in Japan.

This pen is very famous and very popular. In India, before launch of pentonic, people always purchased 5 Indian rupee pens and considered anything above 5rupee as expensive. This pen was 10 rupee. And everyone's perspective changed because it was just so damn good. It might be very inexpensive in us dollars and I believe 8-9 of these pens would cost one dollar but they're a quiet luxury of middle class here in india

Great to know that you are still uploading content. Btw these pens are great. Smooth in writing and the ball is so controllable.

I have a box of these that my mom had saved from her teaching days a good 50 years ago. The box says they are Ravenwood Pencils made by Reliance Pencil Corporation in Lewisburg, Tenn.

A proper showcase of quality stationery. God I love Japanese writing supplies. The Tombows both seemed a smidge darker on camera than the Mitsubishis. Including in the HB test.

*jeez I gotta stop watching these, I have started wondering into the pencil aisle at every store that has one... I have pencils that will take at last 3 years to use up*