uni Mechanical Pencil, Kuru Toga Advance, 0.5mm, White (M55591P.1)

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If you’d like to file an allegation of infringement, you’ll need to follow the process described in our Copyright and Intellectual Property Policy. The good thing about this is that I do not carry pencils in my pocket, so no need to worry about the sleeve causing any damage or discomfort. It might be blocked by dirt, but the pencil was straight out of a sealed package and I cannot see any dirt.

The Kuru Toga’s unique selling point is that its lead rotates which keeps the tip sharp when writing. The pencils I recommend for preventing lead breakage are Zebra DelGuard (cushioned all around) or Pentel Orenz.

hold your pencil in a vertical position and then press the end of metallic lead sleeve repeatedly (this will retract the lead, of course), you will be able to see the pencils engine rotating, the logo printed on the engines case will move, if not, your pencil has a problem. Even though you may start off with clear lines, the point of the lead is gradually worn down until your line widths are thick and smudgy. I just tested my Kuru Toga and as a fellow fp user – not brought up on them though – and knowing the ins and outs of that I would agree it is highly likely that it is not rotating for you out of lack of pressure. I will have to test the pencil more to be able to give a verdict about the “engine”, the build quality and materials are a bit poor, especially the clip, and an awkward lead loading are a bit of a disappointing for me. If I had known these mechanical pencils had a variable pressure/contact mechanism that was designed deliberately to accommodate varying pressure per function by the user, I wouldn’t have touched them.

Because these pencils are based off of the Kuru Toga Advance model, they feature the “W Speed Engine. If you’ve already done that, your item hasn’t arrived, or it’s not as described, you can report that to Etsy by opening a case. In the first time we find how to turn on the KURUTOGA engine to make it rotates -_-” because it does not seem to rotate the lead.

The careful thought behind the construction of the Kuru Toga makes it a revolutionary innovation in mechanical pencil design. I haven’t found any problem getting the engine thingy to work even at very light pressure so I deliberately tried to make it fail.