I love mechanical pencils.  At any given time you can usually find a half dozen of them strewn across  my desk.    I also have a love-hate relationship with them because I usually buy the inexpensive half-dozen to a bag variety and I end up regretting it because the lead breaks easily under pressure or I can’t advance it. Now my regrets have come to an end because I’ve recently found the most wonderful pens and mechanical pencils at the Tokyo Pen Shop. 

You probably think that Tokyo Pen Shop is located in Japan, right? Well, they are located right here on the west coast in the San Francisco bay area.  Their pens and pencils are high quality from Japan including some hard to find pens like the Hi-Tec C.   Anyway, I just got my order today and I’m ecstatic.  I got the super duper “2020 Super Grip Shaker Pencils”  in pink and blue.  I love them.  They have a nice grip and write smoothly, almost like a gel pen.  The lead doesn’t break either because of a metal sheath that protects it, and the lead advances with some kind of sophisticated shaker mechanism.  While I was ordering I grabbed some of those hard to find Hi-Tec C gel writing pens that have fine writing points and also grabbed some gel-tip Uni-ball Signo RTs for heavier writing.   I showed my pens and pencils to my husband and I now have three less than I started with but if I ever need to order more I now know where to order them from.