On the other hand most mechanical pencils still do not even have a retractable sleeve and most consumers do not really seem to care but buy what is available and cheap. It is difficult to predict, but my guess would be that the market share of pencils using the Kuru Toga engine or similar mechanisms will increase, because they are great of they work for you. and the inability to fill in as many spare leads as in some other mechanical pencils (maximum 4 – 6 leads, depending on length and whether you try hard to squeeze them in).the relatively high price for a mechanical pencil compared to similar pens made from plastic …more than twice the price of a Rotring Tikky, which is usually £ 1.99 (~ € 2.20), but to be fair: the Tikky does not come with a pack of replacement leads.The Kuru Toga has been a disappointment for me, as the lead is not rotating, eliminating the advantage of this pencil while the disadvantages of this pencil remain: My wife, for example, is using much more pressure when writing. When I went to school you had to write with a fountain pen and today I still like to use fountain pens and avoid ballpoint pens. This could be because of many years of using fountain pens (which do not need a lot of pressure) and a relatively infrequent use of ballpoint pens (which need much more pressure). I might not press the pencil down hard enough to get the gears to revolve.This would would mean that there is a quality control problem at uni / Mitsubishi pencil. It might be a substandard pencil, and other Kuru Toga Engines work with less pressure.Two possibilities come to mind when looking at the problem of the non-rotating lead. thinner lines, by rotating the pencil in my hand. When using more pressure the lines tend to get wider anyway and I got better results, i.e. Real world use has shown that when I write in a hurry I use more pressure and the lead will rotate, but the lead should rotate whenever I write,not only when I write in a hurry.
I could of course press the pencil down harder to get the gears to revolve and consequently the lead to rotate, but that is not how I would normally write. The pressure I exert when writing “normally” does not seem to get the lead to rotate. Using the Kuru Toga for writing was a big disappointment. Yes, nano is a buzzword (see PhD Comics) and diamonds sound very precious, but instead of just throwing numbers and cool words at customers I would have preferred an explanation why having 400 million nano diamonds in a lead is an advantage and how that helps to deliver super strength and a smooth, crisp line. If you are in marketing or advertising it might be difficult to resist telling the potential customer about the “400 million nano diamonds” in each lead. For the designers who created the packaging the Nano Dia leads seem to be nearly as big a selling point as the Kuru Toga Engine. Somehow I expected this pen to stand out from the other pens on the shelf, but this wasn’t the case at all. My first surprise, when I saw the packaging, was that the advantages of the Kuru Toga Engine were not advertised as much as I expected. I bought mine from Ryman, a High Street chain, for £ 4.99 (~ € 5.50), but unfortunately they only seem to stock the black version. sells this mechanical pencil in many different colours for £ 7.99 (~ € 8.90).
When pressing the lead against the paper to write or when lifting it the gears of the “Kuru Toga Engine” revolve, rotating the lead slightly.Īfter reading a review of the Kuru Toga on Dave’s Mechanical Pencils I was really impressed and quite excited when I saw that the Kuru Toga is now officially available in the UK. The Kuru Toga’s unique selling point is that its lead rotates which keeps the tip sharp when writing. The plastic version is now officially distributed in the UK and other countries, while the successor, the new Kuru Toga pencil, is already available in Japan. In Japan it has been available for more than a year. The Kuru Toga is a mechanical pencil from uni / Mitsubishi pencil.
Introduction: Kuru Toga UK packaging - front
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