Tombow 2558
The company
Tombow are a Japanese stationary manufacturer formed in 1913. All the Tombow pencils I’ve come across so far are quality products. afaik the only Tombow items I own are pencils.
The pencil itself
The 2558 is sold as a high quality general purpose pencil for students and office workers. Despite having an almost classic American yellow pencil appearance, I don’t think the intention here is to be a clone of such.
The 2558 is not the top of the line pencil from Tombow.
How does it write
Having spent a week with this, and having probably written a little more with a pencil this week than I normally do, the pencil is just fine. OK, so I don’t think wow when I pick it up to use, but nor do I not want to use it, and when actually using it, it writes pretty nicely.
Point retention seems fairly reasonable. I wrote a reasonable amount before I felt I needed to re-sharpen.
Sourcing
Not a pencil you are just going to find here in a local shop - I sourced mine off Amazon during a cycle of ‘I want to try some more Japanese Pencils’. A box of 12 is relativley cheap - so bang per buck on this is pretty good.
Other reviews
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