uniball™ Kuru Toga Mechanical Pencil Starter Kit, 0.7mm HB No. 2, 1 Pack

This really works and I got it when it was on sale for ~ five dollars so I consider it a great value. I like that it comes with refills and would be a nice stocking stuffer. The mechanical portion that rotates the lead makes writing so much easier. The person who invented this item is a genius. The only thing is that this is made of plastic so feels a bit flimsy in the hand.

This was my go to pencil for composing and I fell in love with it so much that I bought several more and now use it for everything. Very comfortable in the hand and pencil strokes come out strong and clear. The included eraser works fine, though because it's so small it will be used up quick. However, every handheld eraser has cleaned up fine. They are quite durable, and I've only had one of five that I've purchased break after being accidentally rolled over an office chair, and even that one still works when reassembled.

I have found that I write with gusto and that can break the plastic on the 0.7mm model towards the tip, and then it requires a new device entirely, so at some point I tried "all metal" 0.5 after breaking 2 of the 0.7mm ones, and then noticed write away how much more frequently I was breaking lead and couldn't write the way I preferred very well. Annoyed, I decided I'll keep buying replacements for the 0.7mm "plastic" Kuro Toga until they wise up to making metal 0.7mm options. That’s a pencil I would pay $20 for.

I have to say this pencil is close to perfect! The main things are; lead strength, lead writing deep lines or light. I am still trying to figure out the sharpener. The two reasons I am giving a 4 star is the plastic body, mostly the clip over time will definitely break. I have to clip it to my shirt collar it has held up for 2 weeks so far. The other is if the nib is almost too short, I am sure its to help the lead strength. If there was a way to make the body metal, and extend the nib length, it would be perfect for writing, sketching, and work. (Finish carpentry).

I lived in Japan for many years and greatly enjoyed buying and using all of the wonderfully engineered tools, cooking implements, knives, consumer electronics, etc. Japanese people love precision and great clean design, and mechanical pencils ("sha-pen" in Japanese) are heavily used. By professionals, captains of industry, artists, and school children. My Japanese teacher turned me onto them, great for precision writing of Kanji. I think the Japanese affinity for them stems from the similarity to sumi-e (charcoal) writing implements traditionally used to write Kanji characters. I don't recall these Kuru Toga pencils from when I was there, I might have been using them all along and didn't realize what I had. Anyway, I just bought this one from Amazon and fell in love with it instantly. For a piece of consumer goods that costs less than $6.00 the engineering and design of this thing is a marvel. Might sound funny but it is beautiful to look at. Smoke translucent high gloss plastic barrel, neon green grip and eraser cap, chome-look tip, ridges molded into the end to make it easier to grip. The auto rotation/ auto advance of the lead works perfectly as expected. To test it I started writing and could not stop. The included HB leads are for me, the perfect balance of darkness and hardness. Silky smooth on the paper and they produce no dust that will smudge. I spent the day today at work, writing with a 0.5 mech pencil (not one of these, just a standard one) and the lead broke every 10 seconds literally. Snap, click to advance. Snap, click to advance. Snap, click to advance. Frustration. Got home, opened this up and just wrote a lot and have not broken the point once. Includes a starter pack of HB 0.7 leads and 3 erasers (one installed and two spares). The pencil itself had about 3 leads pre-installed so get this "starter set" and you'll be good to go for a long time. Amazon sells a 40- pack of the 0.7 leads as an "add-on" item for a couple of dollars if you spend more than $25. Love this sha-pen. Must. Concentrate. On. Not. Losing. It.

Such a great pencil. Gifted 2 of these to great success

Would buy from again!

Purchased 2 in January 2025 and by June 2026 both had cracked and separated right at the transition from the smoke colored plastic body to the chrome piece and neither could be fixed due to it either being hot pressed and/or glued, not threaded. Form and function good, durability with 2-3 times weekly use didn't work for me. If you're OK knowing these will hit the round file pretty quick, it's a decent mechanical pencil until it falls apart between your fingers.

Uniball kurutoga 0,7 mm, scrive in modo perfetto, la rotazione della mina ad ogni pressione garantisce in modo efficace la continuità ed uniformità del tratto. Unica pecca é che la matita é un po' leggera per come scrivo io, ma nulla toglie alla qualità complessiva.

amazing

Heel lekker potlood voor aantekeningen en schetsen. Echter is binnen een jaar de plastic buitenhuls gebroken, dat valt tegen.

Excelentisimo por el precio.

Nice product