After one semester rumprobieren I'm from the pen (you can not do away, smears) on erasable pens (better contrast than pencil on paper, but permanently empty and expensive) and normal pencil (sharpening annoying ...) in this mechanical pencil landed.
What I knew from my school days as fummeliges plastic thing, has reached perfection here:
sufficiently heavy to fit comfortably in your hand, very grippy rubber coating, robust plastic and metal where necessary make writing easy good. If a mine "off" is, simply by sliding the next. The reservoir can hold so 5-8 mines - that's enough for many, many pages.
The built-in eraser is very well suited to iron out small errors - for planar erasing it is not suitable and will wear out relatively quickly. Replenishment's affordable at stationer around the corner.
The cost of holding very limits: mines are cheap, erasers and also holds the pin for 2 semesters, although I describe several DINA4 pages every day.
Save only not too much: The best mechanical pencil is nothing without good mines, here should not save you. At my work, for example mines are used constantly break down and wear out very quickly.
This pin can not go wrong.
Update for Semester 3: writes still wonderful, previously once a mechanical problem: The mine feed has stopped working properly, but after a short screwing, shaking, cursing and 4 mines destroyed it goes as usual again. Otherwise everything continues to top. Keeps rubber, the plastic surfaces are even reasonably presentable - there is nothing to complain about.
Update after semester 6: still writes, but not forever: The plastic sleeve is torn on the thread. But backup with tape shows good success. The pen looks taken: The metal clip on is blunt, lettering and logo are leaving the sinking ship. But rubber is still top! There was another problem with mine feed, which was solved with patience of a fellow student: Mine Splitter had purely pinched somewhere.
Nevertheless: If you were careful to deal with the stylus and him in a case, rather than just in a backpack, keep, he saw probably a lot better. Odometer are about 8 packs refills and roughly 20 erasers. I wonder, to let him frame when times'm done with the math :) love Faber-Castell People: brings out please a luxury version of the all plastics have been replaced with stainless steel parts.
