ZEBRA Mechanical Pencil, Del Guard, 0.3mm, Black (P-MAS85-BK)

Durability. Comfort. Value for money. Weight. Pen quality. I am a heavy handed so lead breaks sometimes. Overall love this.

I like that it takes a lot to break the lead, it feels nice, easy to write with, and the size of the lines are sharp, and the pen looks great.

My go to pencil! The feel is awesome and the lead barely breaks. Great for its value.

This is the mechanical lead pencil - PERFECTED. Somehow, Japanese engineers who had nothing better to do found a way to counter the pressure from your hand to the lead & paper and eliminate it - thus completely solving the problem of leads constantly breaking in mechanical pencils. It works like a 100% effective shock absorber on car, using springs inside the body. We saw this little miracle on an NHK/PBS TV show about the resurgence of hand-written letters and notes in Japan (a counter-reaction to impersonal electronic social media and email.) IT ACTUALLY WORKS !!!! Buy it while it is available. I purchased the .3mm, .5mm, and .7 mm versions (going from fine point to wide point.) I would recommend the .7mm model for a wider script, but they are work flawlessly and precisely as advertised.

The Zebra Del Guard mechanical pencil is declined to save you graphite, by making git harder to break. The mechanism holds up well (even when the rest doesn't) enduring drops well with no bending. One of my complaints with the mechanism is that it enduces wobble, especially in notebooks, from added resistance. I feel it unnecessary for a 0.7 mm pencil, and the graphite doesn't break all that easy. On a 0.5, it is useful but not to such a degree as with 0.3. The mechanism had a lead sleeve that, when the graphite bends, it engages a taper, thrusting the sleeve outwards. It also has a spring on the whole lead mechanism to dampen vertical force. All that added together means that it is extremely difficult to break the graphite, which would be the case if the body werent as atrocious as it is. It is all plastic with ridges on the end as a "grip", which made it hard to hold comfortably, as you have to choke the pencil to keep it from sliding in your fingers. The ridging just makes marks in my fingers, and hurts them over time. The rest is also plastic, despite its brushed appearance. The body bends more than I would like, causing the graphite to break. Also what is holding the graphite guard, is also made of plastic, with no lubercation, thus slowly eroding away. At one point, with the 0.5 model had it in my pocket, and sat down. It broke in half. I would recommend you buy the delguard LX, which solves most of my complaints. In conclusion, the delguard is a good showcase of the design, but is not much more. I would not use this as a daily driver (I would use my r0tring 800+ instead) but it is a well designed mechanism.

Love this pencil. I use 0.3mm lead and with other pencils, always breaking leads. Doesn't happen with this one, if only it had auto feed it would be pretty near perfect.

WARNING, although it says not eligible for international shipping on Amazon US, it will in fact be shipped from Japan and take over 45 days to arrive. Nowhere was this indicated when I purchased the pencils. No tracking was provided. I was nevertheless excited finally to receive the pencils only to find the plastic where you hold the pencil is oddly molded and uncomfortable to hold - maybe if you had tiny fingers, but nowhere did it say this pencil is for students only and not adults. The single piece of lead that came in the pencil did not produce a dark line on the paper so I threw it out; so you might want to consider buying lead with the pencil. There is a single white eraser under the metal cap, no replacements are provided.

Big fan of these for real! I like these for all types of writing. For math this 0.3 is good for the details in math equations like exponents and signs. I recommend this highly for math, those who struggle with breaking led and really those who are still using the traditional wooden pencil. I have all sizes they offer and I use them accordingly to whatever I’m working on. I’ve used them all in math so you don’t have to get them all, I just like options. Note the eraser is a joke. I just use the standard pink eraser and not the pencil eraser.

Really nice mechanical pencil. Feels good in the hand when writing.

Il sistema del-guard riesce ad evitare che le mine si spezzino continuamente per quelle persone che hanno la mano un po' troppo pesante. Ed il bello è che il sistema funziona veramente, non è solo una trovata pubblicitaria. 4 stelle perché le plastiche appaiono leggermente cheap

Sólo por la cantidad de veces que salva la mina, merece la pena. La calidad aparente no es la mejor, pero funciona perfectamente. Cuando busco precisión, siempre uso éste portaminas

No different from any other mechanical pencil. The leads break just as easily.

0.3が欲しくてこれを買いました 普通に使えてます