mitsu-bishi Hi-uni

A classic hi end pencil. This is one of the finer pencils in my collection, along with things like the blackwings, tombo mono etc.

The company

I really want to go point to a web site for ‘mitsu-bishi’ here, as that is what is wrtten on the pencil - but, the website is listed as the Uni company. This is all a touch odd, as wikipedia says Uni-ball is a subsiduary of the mitsubishi pencil company. Heh.

I covered the Uni company back in my first post.

The pencil itself

This is a classy pencil. Great finish. I love the colour, and they have a couple of unique finishing features, such as the rounded end (which is not unique, but is rare),

and then the dinky little painted dimple in the end.

How does it write

I like it. It writes great. To me this writes pretty closely to a Blackwing, but, it has a much longer point retention. For me, I think this is probably my current favourite pencil.

Sourcing

Off the internet, pretty easy. I strongly suspect during my next round of pencil purchases I may get myself a dozen HBs…