Latest Update: Added some brief notes on the Faber-Castell e-Motion, and the Caran d'Ache Fixpencil, and a link to an article I've spent a lot of time working on recently - The Cult Pens Guide to Mechanical Pencils.

• For more information about mechanical pencils than you can shake a stick at, go read The Cult Pens Guide to Mechanical Pencils. I know it's good, because I wrote most of it, with lots of help and suggestions.
• See also: Pencil Hardness: What those letters and number mean - HB, 4B, 2H, etc.

Some of these link to full reviews of our own, and some link to reviews elsewhere (especially Dave's Mechanical Pencils.) Others just have a few notes. We get to try lots of pens and pencils now, but don't get chance to fully review them all. Most of the ones we've tried are via Cult Pens, Michael's employer. Opinions here are entirely our own, etc.

Types

There's two main types of mechanical pencils - Leadholders and Automatic pencils...

Mike Rohde has shared pics and details of his designing and sketching kit. He uses Miquelrius notebooks, which are quite popular, and a HiG notebook. I've not heard of HiG before, so I'll have to check them out.

Nice to see, too, that the Faber-Castell E-Motion pencil can perform as well as it looks.

Probably mainly of interest to those in the UK, but our friends at Cult Pens have gone on holiday for a week, so there is no shipping until next Monday (11th). In return for the delayed shipping, they are offering 10% off on all orders placed until Sunday. They do ship worldwide, and if you're in the UK, all orders over £10 ship for free. Lots of gel pens, rollerballs, and some of the best mechanical pencils around.

They also stock some of Sheaffer's range of fountain pens, along with some from Faber-Castell and Porsche Design.

Oh, and Copic markers, and Pelikan ink, and almost everything Pilot supply to the UK (including the much loved Vanishing Point fountain pens)...

Oh, just go and have a look.

(Disclosure: Cult Pens give us a little discount for mentioning them when we review stuff we got from them, and we get the odd freebie for review too. We did use them and love them before that, though.)