Customer Reviews

Love this pencil! This is the pencil to use when your pencil says something about you. Looks elegant, travels well, functions flawlessly. I have several different colors & sizes- consistently high quality. Easy to write with, feels great in the hand. The removable cap gives extra length when placed on the back for writing; when "closed" the pencil is shorter & safer to carry. Nice weight, well balanced. No collection is complete without it. When I meet with a client this pencil is in my pocket.

i have a couple of these, and i really do like them a lot. they feel more elegant than the typical mechanical pencil. AND, you cannot beat pentel customer service. i lost the eraser lid on one of these and could not find one anywhere. i emailed pentel to ask them if i could purchase one, and they sent me a new lid AND some other goodies for free. amazing service. i am a pentel fan for life!

I wish these pencils were available in .3mm. Beside that, these are the most elegant mechanical pencils I've ever seen.

The pencil is really, really well designed. Many pens and pencils with caps function poorly with the cap on the back end, and I usually have to store the cap while using the writing utensil. Not the Kerry. The cap becomes the rest of the pencil into an elegant writing form.

The Kerry has a nice quality to it and has many good features. During travel, the tip is covered by the cap, just like a pen. The body is made of durable plastic. Overall, a nicely made pencil and a fine example of a Japanese pencil that will last you years!

Very nice pencil!!! For people with big hands it may be too small. But the pencil is a very nice Pentel pencil.

My favorite. Can't see how you could improve upon it. Just perfect. Would be nice if it came in a .03 though.

This is a great pencil, but somewhat lighter than I expected. Keep in mind, my favorite pencil of all time is the Rotring 600. I love the appearance and and that the lead continues to advance with a well-designed way to post the cap. The Tombow Zoom mechanical pencil also has a similar feature, but the Kerry feels much more solid with the cap posted. The one warning I would give to those considering this pencil is that it tends to scratch quite easily. If you want to keep it nice, I wouldn't toss it into your pocket with metal items or in a pencil bag with other metal pencils. Overall I would definitely recommend it!

Love this baby! It's such a beautiful pencil. I keep looking at it too much that I can't focus on taking note.

I have many pencils and pens from Jetpens and from Japan. The Kerry line has to be my favorite for many reasons. It is very study. Heavy enough to give value and durability but not cause long writing strain. The cap can cover the tip allowing for travel in pockets without poking like the typical mechanical pencil. The eraser is enough to get by on and the cap isnt flimsy where it falls off after years of use. I love it enough to give it as a good gift. The price and quality is enough so its not just a pencil gift. My 9 year old found it on my desk and wants her own. I can give her a 7mm colored version and we can both be happy. Dont hesitate to purchase this model of pencils. I had mine for a few years and use it daily and felt writing a review was the least i can do to support a quality pencil.

Awesome pencil. It's the one I use the most at work. It's elegant and compact body is easily pocketable. Its unique design is simply brilliant. I was surprised to find that you can leave the lead out when capping it. You remove the cap and start writing, just like with an ink-based pen. It's comfortable to write with both capped and uncapped. I'm not sure why, but right away, I noticed it was smoother than my other pencils to write with.

The mechanism feels good and tight, either used directly or though the cap. I'm certain the Pentel engineers spent considerable time and effort to get mechanism to work this precisely though the mechanical relay in cap.

I lent it to my wife for a class, and she too commented on how smooth it felt to write with it. She wants one.

I've used it daily for a few months now and it's still looks very good. The plastic doesn't get scratched, but will show smudges... You will need to wipe it once in a while to restore its shine.

Get one!

Good
-Smooth Writing
-Perfect Balance and Weight
-Good for People Who Like Big Deal Pencils

Bad
-Two Pieces of the Pencil, May Easily Get Lost
-Gets Covered in Smudges Often, Good Care is Recommended

Absolutely, 100%, No Question......The best pencil my hands have ever used. First of all, it's elegant design. When you pull this thing out in a meeting, people notice it. It also looks great in a shirt pocket. Secondly, the way it writes. I have never written with a smoother pencil. And believe me, I am a pencil freak. I'm an accountant so a good pencil is very important to me. You WILL NOT be disappointed if you purchase this pencil.

This is a classy pencil. Its been there for long time. The design is classis, functional and elegant. The pencil has a nice glossy finish and feels nice to hold. Surprisingly its very light. Hopefully this pencil will serve me for many years. If not, I will buy another. I am just impressed!!!

I had one of these when they came out in 86. I used it for over 10 years and finally lost it. I'm very happy to have found these again! Mine was blue, now I'm black!!!!

When I was a child, my dad, who was a technical illustrator, always had pencils in his breast pocket. When we'd go out to eat, and I'd inevitably want to draw on the placemats, I always secretly hoped he'd pull this pencil out of his pocket for me.
This is a pencil that creates glowing childhood memories. Dad's was black, I got mine in olive, but hey, I'm my own person. I use this pencil to awaken people who have, perhaps, allowed themselves to succumb to the culture that regards pencils as equivalent in importance to, say, toilet paper or plastic cutlery. It never fails in its ambassadorship. This pencil speaks for pencilkind. Buy this pencil.

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If you are looking for a high quality, professional pencil, the Sharp Kerry is it. I have every color of this pencil, including the ones made in the 1970s that have the characteristic "5" imprinted on the cap instead of "Kerry." It is perfectly balanced while writing and will improve the handwriting of anyone. I am an engineer and it works well with templates. Overall, this is the world's best pencil, in my opinion. I don't go anywhere without one. While in school, I would have multiple people ask me about it. When I would let them write with it, it was not long before I noticed they had picked at least one up for themselves. (Usually, they would buy at least 2). Once you own one of these, it is hard not to want the other ones....! GREAT PENCIL!!

Retro looking, beautiful, not heavy, smooth writing pencil. The pencil writes quiet and the matt tip (which protects from the reflections from bright sun or overhead lights) has a comfortable size for writing.

There is a small eraser under the cap button, and the leads can be refilled under the body button. If you want to refill the lead you have only one step to do: Open the top of the pencil and fill a number of lead pieces into the storage chamber. With other mechanical pencils you need two steps do to before filling the leads: remowing the cap, remowing the eraser.

High Quality and Comfortable

Looks are subjective so I won't get into that.
I am an Engineering student and can say with confidence that this is a very well designed and high quality mechanical pencil. As a engineering student I spend well over thirty hours a week writing. I have long
fingers and even though the Kerry looks short and stubby in the photos, it is amazingly comfortable in my large hand. This is my go-to-pencil when I have to spend hours at a time writing homework.

In writing configuration the pencil is about 5 3/16" (13.2 cm) long and about 4 15/16" (12.5 cm) when capped up. The grip is a bit thicker than you would suspect from the photos, tapers from about 10mm to 8mm, and has a nice hefty feel to it.
Overall the Sharp Kerry feels well balanced in the hand, has a medium weight and rock solid when writing.
The 0.7mm graphite-lead is held solid in place, no slopping around when you're writing.
The Sharp Kerry reminds me of a luxury version of a #2 pencil.

The lead advance is also precise letting small increments of lead with each push of the button. The lead advance mechanism is very clever having the button located at the tip of the dual-purpose removable cap/pocket clip. The internal barrel push button pushes out the retractable cap button when the cap is moved to the top of the barrel for writing. When packed away the cap protects the lead-end tip.

I'm glad I have one.

The Kerry is an amazing pencil! Smooth, defined lines on paper. When the cap is posted the eraser is available. Nice snap to the cap when posting. Worth every penny!

It's all that! There are numerous glowing reviews of this pencil, but if you don't own one already you may be asking yourself "Is this pencil really that good?" The answer, in a word: it's better (ok, that was 2 words, or maybe 3 I'm not sure how you count contractions. Call it 2.5)

I have this pencil in black, blue, red, and now Olive! And I must give a BIG shout out to JetPens (& Elizabeth) for customer service that rocks! Short version: (1) an issue arose with my order, (2) JetPens pulled out all the stops and fixed it! Price, selection, and CUSTOMER SERVICE means JetPens is my go to source for office-ernalia. Now, if I can just find a way to tell the world about JetPens without my wife finding out I'm still buying mechanical pencils...

I purchased this red .05 mm pencil based on the glowing reviews by most, if not all, of its owners. I must say, I have to agree with them and am not disappointed. The red color is very striking, but not gaudy. For its size, it's very balanced and feels good in the hand. I qualify the size only because I find it to be a tad on the short size, but I tend to prefer writing instruments to be approximately 6" in length. This pencil measures 5 1/8" when posted.

All in all, I really like the classy lines and design of this pencil. It feels good in the hand and is just the right diameter...not too slim and not too thick. I just ordered the .07 mm pencil in black!

I highly recommend this pencil to anyone looking for a well-designed mechanical pencil that looks like it costs a lot more than it does and is a pleasure to write with.

Several months ago, I was looking for a new mechanical pencil. I had been through many different types and I'd finally found a favorite in the Pentel P205 - a superb, well-balanced pencil - but it was time to try something different.

I learned of the Kerry through davesmechanicalpencils.blogspot.com - I read the review and decided to order one. I was a little hesitant at first with the two piece design as I had never had a pencil with a cap before, however, this has quickly become my favorite pencil. I absolutely love it! It has a nice balance and a sophistication to it that I just don't seem to find in other pencils. I only wish they made it in a .3 mm or .4 mm version.

This is a superb pencil - very hard to go wrong with this beauty!

I have already left one review for this pencil, but I just wanted to expand a little after some usage.
This pencil is very sturdy and beautiful. I just can't get over how it is aesthetically amazing AND functionally perfect.
I have a LOT of pencils from JetPens (including many versions of Alpha Gel and Kuru Toga and Dr. Grip and...) and this one is my absolute favorite go-to pencil. I'm so afraid to let people borrow it because I just don't want it out of my sight! I have no problems handing out my Alpha Gels or Dr. Grips for several days of borrowing. Not this pencil though!
I am going to order one or two more in different colors!

This pencil is so beautiful and elegant. I had never seen a mechanical pencil with a removable cap like this before, which is the main reason why I ordered one. I love how professional and sleek it looks, and the color is so pretty! It took me a few minutes to figure this out, however. With the lid off, you push the button on the end of the body of the pencil to advance the lead. If you pull on the silver part on top of the lid, you will find the eraser. I first thought it was odd that the eraser lifted with a springy action, and then I discovered why: it is designed so that when the lid is posted on the body, you can push on the eraser cap which applies pressure to the advance button on the body, advancing the lead. Clever! I would definitely recommend getting eraser refills to have handy, though. Even though the eraser is rather long and can be adjusted to accommodate use, it is still a small-diameter eraser.
You won't be disappointed.

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