Mechanical pencil

As much as I love Rotring 600 for its quality I find it a little too slim for my hand. I've taken a hard rubber sleeve from another (cheap) pen and fitted it over the barrel, and that works quite well for general writing and note taking, although it's not as precise for drawing.

Not as high quality as the Rotring but more comfortable for me is the Staedtler 925-25-xx.
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Excellent recommendation. The Staedtler 925 25 09 is a wonderful pencil.
 
Mailman today brought me the Faber-Castell that I linked earlier and a Uni-Bal Kuru Toga, both 0.7mm. Still awaiting the delivery (from Japan I think) of the recommended Pentel Graphgear 1000 0.7mm. A good start me thinks. No doubt I'll be revisiting in the future once I get some more experience with these three!

Thanks for all the suggestions!
 
I've been thinking of getting a decent pencil also. Currently using ones from Asda, 10 for about 80p, got them in order to see if I'd actually use one much, the answer being yes.
I think I may go for the one which @AlexNoodles linked, cheers.
 
M-301 by Zebra is a "light" duty that takes on heavy duty useage.

Mechanical pencils still are used in drafting. Namely because most people don't know how to sharpen a normal pencil. They just cant find the little button on a No. 2 that advances the lead for some reason..

I don't believe traditional drafting using 10 different sizes of ink pen, or 10 different sizes of pencil has been taught since 1995. Since 2001 its just been .5 .7 and .9 if you could find one cheap.
 
To complete my kit, I bought yesterday a very interesting lead holder (less than £1) for writing and sketching, a Chinese mechanical pencil used essentially for exams in China. As I read on internet, apparently there tests and exams for scholars are mostly based on multiple choices questions (OCR scan), so a wide lead (0.9mmX1.8mm) would save some time when it comes to striking out boxes. The same kind of mechanical pencil is sold by Zebra in the USA (MLP mechanical pencil).

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To complete my kit, I bought yesterday a very interesting lead holder (less than £1) for writing and sketching, a Chinese mechanical pencil used essentially for exams in China. As I read on internet, apparently there tests and exams for scholars are mostly based on multiple choices questions (OCR scan), so a wide lead (0.9mmX1.8m) would save some time when it comes to striking out boxes. The same kind of mechanical pencil is sold by Zebra in the USA (MLP mechanical pencil).

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I have a similar one by Zebra.

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