![]() The Orenznero will work great is you hold it vertically, but if you write at an angle the sleeve will not glide back properly as it does with the classic Orenz, so if you don’t use light pressure when writing your graphite lines on the paper will get very thin or will even disappear as the sleeve will cover them. This is not the case! It is, however, a nice pencil. Well, I have to say that the Orenznero feels, of course, better and is better made, but because the original or classic Orenz was so good I somehow expected that the Orenznero represents a quantum leap for auto advance pencils. In my previous blog post about the Orenznero, I talked about the history of the sliding sleeve pencil and about alternatives, including very cheap alternatives from Faber-Castell that cost less than a tenth of what I paid for the Orenznero. ![]() ![]() Top to bottom: Staedtler Microfix, Pentel Orenz and Orenznero It felt as if Pentel revived an old friend of mine, the Staedtler Microfix. The surface has a bit of a texture (enlarge picture to see) Handling The body is made from plastic, but it is nice to touch plastic with a little bit of a texture. In reality, the Orenznero feels much cheaper. ![]() Especially on photos where you think it has something of the allure of the Rotring 800. If you try to put this pencil in a pocket where the pencil’s sleeve or pipe will touch the material of the pen slot (think of something like the Nock Co Hightower) the lead will forward and possibly break in your pen slot. It’s also not a great pen to transport in pen sleeves/pockets/slots I am trying to clarify here as very different things are called a sleeve. It is possible to retract the sleeve, but you have to push the sleeve/pipe really hard into the body of the pen, for example with your fingernail. You can’t make this pencil pocket safe very easily. Here are my observations regarding this pencil after a week of use. Altogether I paid just over £30 (~$36 35). Thanks to Yumiko I got one just after it was released in Japan. Pentel seems to try to emphasise this fact by not using capital letters and the o on both ends of orenznero is stylised as, what looks to me like, a lead in a pencil sleeve viewed from the top. ![]() Nero is also oren, as in oren(z), spelt backwards. In a recent blog post I introduced the new Pentel orenznero, also called PP3002, its model number (for the 0.2mm version).Īs you probably know nero means black in Latin and Italian – and, surprise surprise, the orenznero is black. ![]()
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