Customer Reviews

I very much like the darkness of this lead. I am not experienced buying all the different levels of hardness and softness for mechanical lead, although I am pleased with this. I tend to write with a very light touch and a darker lead helps my work show up properly. B is surely dark enough for your average hand, although for one who writes with little or no pressure behind your pencil, I would recommend for you a darker grade. I have no complaint about this product whatsoever, when I draw with slightly more pressure it shows up perfectly. The container itself is even a dispenser, which is just precious.

I have tried all lead sizes (for 0.5) from 4h to 5b and every thing in between. When I tried this lead I loved it it wrote smooth and is easy to see your writing.

I've used several types of lead from Pentel super polymer to premium and then uni-ball and etc other companies. I stumbled across the Ain B as a gift from a friend and I was sold. I use a graph gear 1000 (A Pentel drafting pencil), and with this lead I was able to get a smoother flow of writing in English, Japanese, and Korean. I could make finer details, but most importantly of all it rarely, if ever, broke under any sort of pressure. Make note of this when you have to write a 6 page Philosophy test in 50 min!!

It's great Pencil lead!!! Very smooth and doesn't easily broken unless you write really hard~

Cool case! Great lead! I recommend it 4 U!

Cheap for the price. Good lead

Best lead I've ever used, almost no breakage, and super smooth dark lines that erases very clean, unless I write with extreme pressure.. and even then the lead does not break!

everyone that I give a piece to when they ask, said its an extremely noticeable difference to their original lead. much smoother and darker (coming from regular 2B users)

This is what i will always get, i got the 2b for 0.7 as well and b for 0.3 since 0.3 evaporates if its any softer.

don't think about it, its the best out there!

Wonderful lead. Provides an ideal darkness without exerting extra pressure while writing, can write lightly when needed, and it simply does not break. I've dropped my pencil a number of times with the lead out, and have not had it break once.

Erases smoothly with a decent eraser. The eraser tip on my Uni Kuru Toga is admittedly a piece of junk, but using the great Mitsubishi e-Knock eraser solves that. This lead partnered with these two utensils makes a winning pair.

Finally, works perfectly well with Scantron. You can leave the #2 lead at home if you want!

Okay. Breaks easily not there is not enough lead in the case.

Overall Rating:
Okay

the ain lead is ok but i like the uni ball low wear nano dia lead a whole lot better

I really like the darkness of this lead. I use it in many of my Pilot, Uni, and Pentel technical pencils. The lead is durable for it's softness and can be used well with any pencil. Of course, people who write heavy handed will be advancing the lead every few words! The lead does smear quite easily, but also erases almost completely using a white eraser. All in all a good investment.

This is, put simply, great lead. I compared it to my previously-trusted Pentel lead, and while the difference isn't dramatic, it is noticeably harder to break. Very good overall.

Surprisingly strong! I wish this (or an equivalent) was sold in the US. I don't have to make sure I'm writing with the bare minimum length of lead with this.

Pros:
- After trying out various hard/soft leads, 3B is my favorite for taking notes and writing.
- Awesome dispenser/container ^^ Best stuff out there in my opinion. Sometimes when i\'m at a loss for lead, i go out to Staples or Office Max and get a 3 pack of lead and take the lead out of those containers and simply refill this container :P

Cons:
- NONE...at all. Cept that it\'s semi-expensive. ~shrug~. A 3 pack of 30 pieces at an American retail store costs less $$, but hey, what can you do. haha. If anything, buy this item for the dispenser and just keep refilling it with cheaper lead. That\'s what most of my friends do. :D

So much better than other leads. It is SOOOO hard to break, and I love that, because I press down firmly when I write. Totally recommend this.

I came to conclusion that these color refill sticks along with the red ones are the best there is (apparently Staedtler and Faber Castell 0.5 mm blue leads are the best but I cannot find where to buy) when it comes to color pencil refills. They break less easily as compared to color sticks from Uni and Pilot Eno (lets not forget these are not graphites so offcourse they will break easier than graphite sticks) but, MOST importantly the color from these sticks does not disappear overtime as it does with Pilot eno color sticks. This maybe of importance to artists as you may not see your color lines in a few weeks or months (I cannot see preliminary drawing lines I did few weeks ago with color Pilot eno light blue sticks but i see no changes in color strength with these blue or red pentel pencill refills). Offcourse this may be not important to some, depending on your needs.

My main complaint is that this lead doesn't erase very well. The Uni-ball and Pilot colored leads erase much better.

This is the best lead I ever used, its strong and solid and very high quality. I would recommend trying it out.

It doesn't erase! =(
My first colored lead was the uniball set for 3.75 (the multicolored one) and that was really nice and it erased well, so I thought, why not get some more colored lead?

However, buying this one was a mistake, since it doesn't erase well. =(

Buy the uniball if you want to be able to erase your writing.

How much lead is in each package? I've used the Super polymer versions but never the Ain, though I've used other Ain leads and I can attest that their stronger than their Super cousins and come in greater quantities, which make it easier for me to carry around. I use a graph gear 1000, personally I think the finest pencil to use with Pentel lead and using this lead is similar to using a colored pencil, but with far more control and vastly finer details. The lead is great for art sketches, writing, or just plain notes!

Dark lines, smooth and soft on the paper, resistant to breakage. The case has a small plastic bit protruding on a side that might break easily, this bit is necessary because of the interesting and convoluted mechanism used for opening the case, but a bit overkill.

Its a good lead if your into writing a lot of stuff. This lead doesn't run out as well as other lead, so you can write longer in one click of your lead pencil:)

:) very good, but it's pretty easy to break so watch where you put it...

So soft and smooth, the lines are nice and dark, but people are right about the lead running down quickly so just keep that in mind. Worth buying at least one of these to try out though. :)

Although it should be very soft, this lead is actually very durable, and can write very darkly. It only smudges if you really try. I love it.