![]() Reading the comments there, I’m far from the only person who wishes they still made them. You can’t find the original versions from the company any more. When I was trying to find some replacements here in Japan several years ago, I found complaints from Japanese about not being able to find any domestically. They are not even listed on the Japanese site as an historical product. Despite Pentel being a Japanese company, apparently the PD345 were only sold in the American Pentel store. In high school, I probably tried a dozen different mechanical pencil models before I found the Pentels. In other words, they were perfect for drafting, but not that great for regular writing. They also had overly-long tips for use with rulers and drafting templates, and nonexistent erasers since you almost always used a separate big-assed eraser at your table along with a smudge bag to clean up inadvertent smears. Those pencils were burly, nicely weighted and balanced, with great knurling at the grip, They made a mini-shotgun-like chunka-chuncka click when you advanced the lead. I used some serious mechanical pencils in my drafting classes in high school, the kind that cost $10 apiece 4 in the pre-Internet Dark Ages of nearly 30 years ago, back when CAD programs came on “new fangled” 3.5” floppies and had to be booted from DOS. While I do the vast majority of my writing electronically these days, I have always been a pen and pencil snob - albiet one constrained by upbringing, inclination, and finances to instruments well under the OMFG! 3 level. I have strong opinions about the things I use, including writing instruments. (The very durable translucent plastic body has the advantage mentioned above of letting you see directly how many leads you have left without having to open the reservoir and dump them out, or do a “shake test” to estimate.)
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