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It's going to take a true pencil expert to understand the common pencil’s dilemma but hang in there as we try and explain. With standard mechanical pencils, as you write the pencil lead is worn down until it is a slanted surface. Each time you write you will get a different experience depending on how the pencil is rotated.
This can cause multiple annoyances:
1. As you start to write you might have a sharp point, but as you continue to write the point is worn down and thus your line widths are not uniform. This can also lead to smudgy and thick lines.
2. If you pick the pencil up and happen to start writing with the tip of the angled point, it is likely to scratch or catch on the paper.
3. The different angles at which the pencil lead comes in to contact with the paper is a common cause of lead breakage.
The Kuru Toga, on the other hand, has a core rotation mechanism that continually rotates the pencil lead as you write. The lead is twisted through a spring-loaded clutch, it works by twisting incrementally every time you lift the pencil up (i.e. during printing words, etc). This allows a uniform wearing of the pencil lead so that it always remains as a pointed tip. Not only does it solve the above problems, but it also gives you an amazingly thin line. You are effectively using only 50% of the lead area that you were previously using with your old mechanical pencil. Thus, a 0.3 mm Kuru Toga will write incredibly thin lines and have less breakage than a standard 0.3 mm mechanical pencil.
02/26/2010
After reading the reviews, I went out and purchased three of these without testing first. Bad
decision.
Though the fit, finish and balance of the pen is fine, the Kuru Toga rotating gimzo is not for me.
I cannot write with it. It's definitely not for me. I suggest you try the pen before you buy.
It'll either be love or hate, nothing inbetween.
12/03/2009
I like this pencil a lot. The mechanism works well. Usually I give 4's to utencils if there are
small defects in them, but I am pleased to say that there are none in this. I would encourage
people to purchase the Kuru Toga.
By the way, it writes smooth!
09/09/2009
In response to skil1977, I would not recommend this pencil for artwork. There are two devices
inside the pencil that cause the lead to rotate. Each time the tip is pressed down it rotates at a
very tiny increment, and when the pressure is released it rotates in the same direction the same
distance. The pencil tip has to be pressed down about twenty times before the lead makes a full
rotation and t...
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