Pop-A-Point mechanical pencil

We received Pop-A-Point samples last year and completely ignored them until -- imagine this -- I couldn’t find a pencil when I needed one. It looks like a kid’s disposable, inexpensive, mechanical pencil, and it is! But, unlike the cheapies you’ve already rejected because the lead breaks and constantly slips out of the barrel, this one works very well. There are 10 individual needle-shaped points tightly snuggled into the barrel. When you’ve worn down a point, which takes quite a while, you simply pull it out, dispose of it into the top of the pencil, and out pops a fresh point! Use the colorful eraser in a vertical position and it will erase well. It’s a little squishy if you use it at an angle. The clip is nice, and serves to protect clothing and skin.  |  Don Bell, Proprietor, PencilThings 

Comments

[Andy]

Pop-a-point pencils just don't do it for me -- I think I had a bad experience with them as a child. I am someone who presses hard on his pencil when writing, so maybe I expect too much. But I always pressed hard enough to push the point back in, thus pushing the last point out of the back of the pencil. That was inconvenient.

I also feel that since it was such a staple (er, pencil) of my youth -- in every party favor bag at avery birthday party, with every sort of super hero on the barrel -- maybe I should now use a grown-up pencil.