Welcome

Hey there, welcome to the Mechanical Pencils Slack group! We’re glad you’re here. 🕺💃

This Slack group is for Mechanical Pencil lovers around the world. Here we share our collections, ask questions, discuss modifications, and more.

When you get a moment feel free to say 👋 hello in #general

Here’s a short explanation: •  On your left you see all channels •  We have topic channels that look like this: #pentel, #collections, etc.  Please take a moment to browse these channels and join the ones you'd like. • Use Threads of much as possible when replying to a message in a channel.  This will help keep things organized. •  If you’d like a new channel created, ask admins @sideKnocks (atxalais), @Ƶ or @Knocktype11 We hope you’ll enjoy it here and meet lots of other Mechanical Pencil enthusiast.

Code of Conduct (TLDR: Just follow Wheaton's Law) Our goal is to maintain a safe, helpful and friendly community for all Mechanical Pencil enthusiasts, regardless of experience, gender identity and expression, sexual orientation, disability, personal appearance, body size, ethnicity, age, religion, nationality, or other defining characteristic.

Good you are here @dave davidson ☺️

Good you are here @Zylo Sol ☺️

Purrrfect! @Jimmy Simpson (Nimrodd) is here!

Thanks to everyone who joined today! We're glad to have you here. It'll take a bit for us to ramp up but thanks for being our first peeps here.

@2nd_astronaut hello, gorgeous 💋

^ well that was a bit more friendly than I expected.

Welcome @2nd_astronaut

Haha, hi everyone!

Hey!!

Welcome!!

There’s no place like home, @George Fox ☺️

Welcome George!!

@Thanakorn Maleesut cowabunga! 🤙

Welcome to Knockology! I hope you find it useful and enjoyable.

Hey @Thanakorn Maleesut! Thanks for joining,

Looking forward to your rOtring collection.

You’ve got a friend in me, @ckjay :facewithcowboy_hat:

@Ray, how you doin’? 😋

Hi, still figuring how to use this app...

Hi Ray! Welcome, glad to see you here! You'll get the hang of Slack pretty quickly. We are a forgiving bunch.

Live long and prosper @Heath :spock_hand:

Hi

Greetings!

To infinity and beyond @Dry 🚀

@Ron Knapp I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship ☺️

@Kelvin Pang (drifand) good morning, and in case I don’t see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight! 👋

Hey everyone! I’d like to welcome @Kelvin Pang (drifand) to the Knockology group. Kelvin is a collector out of Singapore and I’m willing to bet he has us all beat on most pieces acquired in a single year. I know @Ray made a big impact in his collecting and I’m betting he’ll return that favor and get us hooked on some different pieces as well.

Welcome welcome welcome @Kelvin Pang (drifand). Super glad you’re here. We’re just getting started with this group. Right now our most popular channel is #pentel but we are excited to welcome new members like yourself which such a broad collection.

Enjoy yourself and don’t be shy to post anything, anytime, on any channel.

Welcome @Ron Knapp and @Kelvin Pang (drifand)! This is going to be a great year. I plan on expanding my posts outside of the #pentel channel. Feel free to join in.

Thanks! Will lurk a bit and ease myself into the threads 👍:skintone2:

@Pearsonified hello, gorgeous 💋

Welcome @Pearsonified.

This fella needs no introduction

takes a bow

Happy to expand the conversation and shed light on the coolest vintage pieces!

I went completely nuts in 2021, acquiring over 1300 pencils from all over the globe. I tried to focus on the entire genre, and I had the most fun exploring brands I'd never heard of before, such as Tombow, Newman, Sakura, and Kokuyo.

Before getting into all this, I suppose I'd have considered myself a fan of rOtring and Staedtler,

but the hobby has revealed that Pilot is indeed my personal favorite

Nice, did you just post something on reddit about 2021?

But I don't really get too exclusive here—I have over 100 Pentels and Mitsubishis, too. (I consider Pilot, Pentel, and Mitsubishi to be the big 3 of MPs)

Yes, @Heath, that was me 😄

I bought a nice photo box recently, so I'll start revealing the collection on the subreddit in the coming weeks

Probably most psyched about my toolbox, though, which is hard to photogrpah because of where it is in the house

can’t wait!

I am so torn about how to organize my stuff

I want to see most of it though

But https://pearsonified.com/images/pencils/mitsubishi-low.jpg

Original URL: https://pearsonified.com/images/pencils/mitsubishi-low.jpg

^^ that's my Mitsubishi drawer

I went trhough a bunch of storage iterations

1. Pencil cases (max capacity: 60)

yeah, you need something on another level

1. acrylic drawers (poor capacity, also need to install something to keep pencils from moving)

1. Toolboxes

My main requirements were: Complete visibility without touching, no movement when opening/closing drawers, and no pencils touching each other!

I started with a small toolbox, but it only had a capacity of just over 200 pencils

Then I bought a massive Husky from Home Depot, and this thing has a capacity of 1124 pencils

lol

I feel like I should probably stop collecting if I fill this thing up

(spoiler: it's full)

oh man

So complete visibility when opening a drawer? Not complete visibility at all times

that would be a wall o pencils

Correct, only when opening a drawer

My son is just over 1 year old, and if he saw these pencils, I wouldn't have any more pencils 😄

Yeah I have a 20 month old. She saw the collection for the first time the other night

I think her eyebrows said WTF

But I def think toolbox drawers with gorilla grip liners are the way to go

I tried a lego solution for arranging the pencils, but you need to put some felt on the legos, or else the pencils slide

lol yeah, wayyyyy too many shiny things for kids to grab

I was thinking pastel drawers since that would look better in our studio.

That's kinda cool and would be a great fit depending on the collection size

I really wanted an all-wood cabinet

like an old flat file or something

Yup

those are nice

Exactly

(speaking of, if you live in the northeast, you can get some badass flat files for cheap)

I am

where?

Pennsylvania on up

ah

lots of old drafting companies in those parts

I’m in Gray, Maine

might be a smidge too far lol

yeah, good to know though

The company I work for has a few offices in PA

I'm gonna upload a couple of lame pics of the toolbox so y'all can get an idea for the scale, one sec

Toolbox: https://pearsonified.com/images/pencils/raw-toolbox-closed.jpg

Pilot drawer: https://pearsonified.com/images/pencils/raw-toolbox-pilot.jpg

Original URL: https://pearsonified.com/images/pencils/raw-toolbox-closed.jpg

Original URL: https://pearsonified.com/images/pencils/raw-toolbox-pilot.jpg

Who are @Heath and @sideKnocks (atxalais) on Reddit?

You got a giant freakin toolbox in your house for pencils!

I'm atxalais

That's correct

oh word, lol

Makes sense with all your PD345s

I’m just heathcarson

I will print out these photos and show them to the wife at very strategic times

Right on, nice to meet you guys

*Thread Reply:* same!

and am a lurker for the most part

hahahahaha yeah, it could always be way worse

until I found these guys

and realized there were others

If I named myself like sideKnocks, I would be DoubleKnocks

I'm an absolute freak for double knocks

👀

the GOAT of MPs

pinnacle of the form

The holy grail is a double knock with the reliability of a Pentel 5

Pretty sure Pentel 5s will still be working like champs after a nuclear holocaust

So in 2024? Got it

I'm counting on it

(per my PredictIt bets)

Channels I'd like to see: • Newman • Sakura • Kokuyo • Colleen • Platinum • Ohto • Sailor • Zebra

Channels whose names should be changed: • Uni → Mitsubishi

I can create those

Surprised @Knocktype11 stills talks to me without a #colleen channel.

*Thread Reply:* Until we have more traffic about these manufacturers flooding the other channels I would recommend that we not add additional channels. Use <#C021XG9ECQ4|other-pencils>. That is what it is for. I would argue that at this point we have too many channels not too few.

Colleen is the undisputed champion of double knocks

I still hate myself for not winning the 13-pencil auction that went off in August or September

once-in-a-lifetime chance to score a huge swath of history

any pics of this?

their gold lead strategy was cool, too

ehhhhhhhhh I might be able to find something. Gonna have to search completed auctions over VPN, but the kids just got home

May the Force be with you @Kiwi-d 💫

Welcome @Kiwi-d it is great to have you here.

*Thread Reply:* I haven't used Slack before so bear with me whilst I fumble and stumble about the place for a while

*Thread Reply:* No worries. There is a pinned post in #general that has a link to a quick video on using slack. Post in the right channel, reply in threads, follow Wheaton's law, and everything will be great.

Several of us are in the GMT-5/6 while I am in GMT-8. The other timezones should be starting up now... We are all over the planet.

I have been using a long time and collecting for a while but I have been reading DMP for a long time. I literally have a little lead under my skin (.2mm).

boardgamegeek.com

Wheaton's Law | Wiki | BoardGameGeek

Original URL: https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/microbadge:25354

*Thread Reply:* Hi @Kiwi-d, welcome! Yeah I'm in gmt-5.

Heeeeere’s @Clutch Situation 😃

Hey Michael. Welcome to Knockology! As I mentioned to you, we are a fairly small group of mechanical pencil enthusiasts that use this platform to share our passion. We introduce each other to new products, discuss history, do detective work, trade/sell, etc. We also coordinate some of our efforts in acquiring pieces from foreign auction sites.

This Slack workspace is broken up by channels (topics). Feel free to chime in or start a discussion in any channel. We try to use the threads feature as much as possible when chatting on a particular topic, but we’re not always the best at that.

Not much has been formalized with Knockology and we’re letting it organically take shape. We’re not sure exactly how many members we’ll let in but everyone that's currently here I consider to be “founding members”. You’ll probably recognize some of the members here.

Thanks for joining us, bud. We’re honored to have you here.

@here Please welcome @Clutch Situation to the group. He may just have a YouTube channel you're familiar with. 😉

All I ask is that people limit aggressive comments about my handwriting. 😂

*Thread Reply:* You're safe here. 🕺:skintone2:

Welcome @Clutch Situation! Hopefully you will find this place as informative and fun as we do.

Hi @Clutch Situation, welcome! Love your channel!

There’s no place like home, @First-Sail ☺️

Hey @First-Sail. Welcome to Knockology! We are a fairly small group of mechanical pencil enthusiasts that use this platform to share our passion. We introduce each other to new products, discuss history, do detective work, trade/sell, etc. We also coordinate some of our efforts in acquiring pieces from foreign auction sites.

This Slack workspace is broken up by channels (topics). Feel free to chime in or start a discussion in any channel. We try to use the threads feature as much as possible when chatting on a particular topic, but we’re not always the best at that.

Not much has been formalized with Knockology and we’re letting it organically take shape. You’ll probably recognize some of the members here. 😃

Thanks for joining us, Carlos!

@here please welcome Carlos to the group! Carlos has been collecting for 10 years and is currently exiled in Chile. You know him as First-Sail-1386 on Reddit.

Wow @sideKnocks (atxalais) you’ve got the welcome speech down nicely! 😆

*Thread Reply:* You're doing the next one wise guy!

*Thread Reply:* copy paste!

*Thread Reply:* Just like you copy pasted my collection?

*Thread Reply:* 😂

*Thread Reply:* OUCH! Yeah basically!

*Thread Reply:* I can't copy paste your $700 per pencil collection though.

*Thread Reply:* That was just one!

*Thread Reply:* Private school way too expensive

*Thread Reply:* and it was only $550

*Thread Reply:* But how much stuff did you have to buy your wife to make up for it?

*Thread Reply:* case closed

*Thread Reply:* Oh you know it had to be at least equal

*Thread Reply:* And a different kind of shiny

*Thread Reply:* Speaking of copying your collection, just got these in

Image from iOS

*Thread Reply:* ❤️ some of my favorite Orenzs

*Thread Reply:* Other than the Foxy series, are there any other translucent ones?

*Thread Reply:* Don't say that word around here

*Thread Reply:* lol

*Thread Reply:* Those pencils shouldn't exist

*Thread Reply:* It’s the only way you can have a clear red

*Thread Reply:* You could probably wipe off Foxy

*Thread Reply:* that's a must

*Thread Reply:* wd40 should do it

*Thread Reply:* There you go

*Thread Reply:* and burn the packaging

*Thread Reply:* You’re too much

*Thread Reply:* maybe

*Thread Reply:* /poll Am I too much?

*Thread Reply:* How old are you again?

*Thread Reply:* 41

*Thread Reply:* The fact they shouldn’t exist is why you need a set.

*Thread Reply:* You can tuck them away deep in your sock drawer.

*Thread Reply:* Or closet

*Thread Reply:* Don't make me pull @Knocktype11 into this

*Thread Reply:* Yup. Dad’s on his way.

*Thread Reply:* LOL

Welcome @First-Sail!

Thanks for the invitation. I take this opportunity to ask if anyone knows Elton Qiu's catalogue, where he sells pencils on eBay under the name of saingapuremechanicalpencils, he's also on the Reddit sub but hardly comments. When I spoke with him on ebay, he told me that we could do a deal outside the platform and sent me a link to his catalog (I'm going to post the link here to see if it works). Well, I bought 7 pencils from him once but I wasn't entirely happy with it. He told me that the pencils were new but when I had them I realized that they were not NOS. He has a lot of pencils, most of them are not listed on ebay. The thing is, I want to buy more from him, but I'm not so confident anymore. Does anyone know him?

*Thread Reply:* Don’t know him, but I bought a FC TK-matic from him recently and was happy with it. His prices on eBay are definitely higher than they should be so I’m curious how they look in his catalog.

*Thread Reply:* https://photos.app.goo.gl/mEv36EGHpVPkvy7j9

*Thread Reply:* Ok

*Thread Reply:* I've bought from Elton before, as I also live in Singapore. He’s above board and has an amazing stock of his spares. My understanding is he has a business network thru work and managed to get hold of old stock that way.

*Thread Reply:* Ok thanks very helpful

El catálogo es este https://photos.app.goo.gl/mEv36EGHpVPkvy7j9

Google Photos

Mechanical pencils

45 new items added to shared album

Original URL: https://photos.app.goo.gl/mEv36EGHpVPkvy7j9

*Thread Reply:* @sideKnocks (atxalais), can you tell what kind of filter Elton uses? Feels almost like HDR since the reds are cranked so hard

*Thread Reply:* It's probably not a single filter but tiny adjustments to the levels, vibrance, saturation, and color targeting with HSL

He responds pretty quickly on https://www.carousell.sg/

*Thread Reply:* https://www.carousell.sg/u/singaporemechanicalpencils/

*Thread Reply:* I gotta buy a bunch of stuff from homey