Pentel sells three versions of the Orenz, the standard model made of colourful plastic, a version with a plastic body and metal grip, and the luxurious Orenznero with a sci-fi-esque design and built with a premium resin-metal blend. It does this by using a unique lead protection mechanism that is not found in any other mechanical pencil. The Pentel Orenz is a pencil designed to use extremely small-in-diameter(down to 0.2mm!) leads without breaking. This is why when I discovered PentelРІР‚в„ўs РІР‚ВOrenzРІР‚в„ў line of mechanical pencils that promised to solve the issue of constant lead breakage when using small-diameter leads, I knew I had to get one. I could remedy this by writing with mechanical pencils that use 0.3mm(or smaller) leads, but that would result in a much higher frequency of lead breakage, hampering my writing experience. Unfortunately, I find that the most common lead diameter, 0.5mm, is just a little too thick to provide the crispР’В feel of a freshly sharpened pencil on paper. ItРІР‚в„ўs why we always try to keep our traditional wooden pencils well sharpened, and use graphite leads with small diameters in our mechanical pencils. Writing with a fine lead tip gives us greater control over our penmanship and lets us squeeze in more content into less space.

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