Pentel GraphGear 1000 Retracting Drafting Pencil

The pocket clip has a second job.

Click the top to put the long metal guide sleeve to work against a ruler. Press the clip and the sleeve snaps back inside the barrel for the trip home. In the disassembled view you can see how much of this pencil is devoted to moving that tiny tip.

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Photo by Simon A. Eugster · Source · CC BY-SA 3.0. Photo: Simon A. Eugster / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). Proportionally resized and converted to WebP. Full composition retained.

WHY IT CAUGHT OUR EYE

The photograph explains a mechanism that usually vanishes inside the grip. A clip that looks decorative turns out to be the release lever.

BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the 0.5 mm pencil. The two views are of the same product and illustrate its construction. You do not need to take it apart to retract the tip.

Single 0.5 mm PG1015A, metal body and black lead-size accents. The same pencil is shown assembled and taken apart in the photograph.