Mitsubishi's Kuru Toga Masterpiece
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I honestly have not used a mechanical pencil in years. However, this pencil is certainly worth considering. I used to write with a pencil regularly, having had done mechanical drawing in the past. My go to was Koh-i-nor but as you mentioned, one side would flatten and you would have to manually rotate the pencil to get a consistent line width. That it does this for you is great advancement.
Thank you for your worthwhile review, Michael.
As for your elbow, it is great to see and hear that you are out of the sling and it is healing nicely. Some surgeons are butchers. You found an excellent doctor.
Many thanks, Paul. And I totally agree - both about pencils and my surgeon!
@@writerlywitterings I just ordered the pencil and lead. The price for the pencil was surprisingly inexpensive. The price for the pack of lead cost more than the pencil!
Good news your almost ready elbows! I am glad.
Regards.
Thank you so much - I have to admit, I'm very glad too!
Glad you are enjoying your new KuruToga! I have the basic one (no retracting lead sleeve) as a desk pen as well as the expensive metal one, which I got on sale from Cult Pens.
Your elbow is looking really good! Glad to see you are recovering so well.
I also discovered your books! (The Templar series) ... Excellent! I had been waiting a year for CJ Sansom's latest Shardlake novel Ratcliffe to come out but now I have a huge new series to get into... I can't imagine I'm going to need much else for a while. Thankyou!
Thank you for that! It's always good to hear someone who has tried and enjoyed my books, especially when they have liked Chris's books too. He was a lovely guy, sadly missed!
I bought several based on your recommendation and I love them, too! Thanks for sharing!
Glad you like them!
I have two Kuru Togas just like that featured one that I picked up in a Jspanese stationery store in NYC back in 2018 or so. The one you feature may have a slightly different clip but the other features were present back then.
Yes, they have been around for some time. The reason I wanted to do this was the slider function on the nib, and the fact that it's so much slimmer and more comfortable to use than the original versions.
Very innovative tool, one more for the buy list.
It really is! And such a reasonable price.
It's a lot of good design for not very much money.
Absolutely. I was never that taken with the first version, but this is about perfect, to my mind.
Oh no, another pencil to try 😅. My pencil collection is about to increase. I absolutely love trying out all types of pencils. ✏️✏️✏️✏️
Same here, Valerie. Basically I am an inveterate collector of all things stationery!
@@writerlywitterings I am exactly the same 😊. It helps that I can use it all in my day job ... Oh who am I kidding, I will never use it all 😂😂
It's very cool that it rotates to provide an even wearing of the lead. What a great idea!
Glad you like it! It's a brilliant concept. I shudder to think how much time and money they spent to design what seems such an elegant solution!
I just wish they had a .7mm version.
Yes, I'm surprised that they don't. I rather prefer the thicker leads - just a little more robust.
This new Kuru Toga looks very nice and very affordable! I may buy one in the near future. I recently acquired a Rotring 800 (in 0.7mm) after receiving an award and a nice £30 gift voucher from work. The Rot 800 is superb, with the pencil sleeve retracting into the body with a little twist, fixing the issues I had with my other premium mechanical pencils (a Rotring 600 and a Graphgear 1000) which had a tendency to jab either into my leg (if kept in my hip pocket) or through my shirt pocket. The rotating lead design of this Kuru Toga seems particularly useful, however. Is it possible to have too many mechanical pencils? (My wife would think so 😆.)
I think our wives must be related ...
Some of my favorites
1. Dixon Ticonderoga
2. Staedtler Noris
3. Staedtler Mars
I'm not so keen on the Staedtler, purely because it feels a little too skinny for my taste, but the Blackwings, and the Tombows - I adore them!
Very enjoyable vlog as usual, Michael. Unless I missed it and assuming the pencil is refillable, what is the situation regarding refills and how easy are they to fit? 👍 …
Good question! You can pull the eraser out of its socket, and beneath that there is a hole which forms a magazine. I had five spare leads in there, and wouldn't show it because I'd just tried that and dropped all the leads onto my floor - and it took an age to pick them all up again! But as you write and the old lead reduces, gradually a new lead is fed into the nib. It's really very effective.
@@writerlywitterings Many thanks. Sounds like a very innovative piece of technology.
Michael have You found a thin Mechanical Pencil that will fit the William Hannah Portable Notebook? Thanks!
I assume you mean the little pocket notebook? The Kuru Toga is sitting in that as I write. The notebook loop is deceptive, because it's elastic. It's a little tricky to get it to accept the pencil at first, because the loop holds the silicon/rubber ring at the meeting of the nib section and barrel, but it does fit perfectly, and remains there safely. The Kuru Toga is 14.5mm, while the notebook cover is 15mm, so it's fully enclosed. Any pencil of 14.5mm or less will be fine. Metal pencils will work well, since they can slide in and out of the loop with ease. Hope that helps.
Hi,
could you correct the heading of the video, please?
In german it sounds really funny, though...
Hahaha - No one else spotted that - many thanks!