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Wednesday, July 6, 2011

The Kuru Toga Roulette

 I now own 3 Kuru Toga pencils. The only one I don't have is the High Grade, yet.  The Roulette is to me by and large the best Kuru Toga available to date.  It has the overall shape of the High Grade with the advantage of being almost all metal.  The only external plastic piece (save for the black tip) is the push button topper.  This is on the silver model a translucent light gray plastic.  The rest of the Roulette is a two-tone silver-gray metal.  The upper body is a bright silver with the name in a dark gray color.  The neck of the push button, pocket clip, coupling and and end cap are all chrome.  The lower half of the body, which is 1-1/2 times the upper body diameter is beautiful satin gray with 4 groves designating the finely knurled grip.

The diameter of the Roulette's grip is nearly perfect for this blogger.  I really like the feel of the fine knurls of the grip.  It is easy to grip and slip resistant.  Writing with the Roulette is a pleasure from beginning to end.  The auto rotating mechanism provides a built in cushion making the writing experience quite smooth.  There is a slight learning curve with any Kuru Toga, or in my case an unlearning curve.  As I write with a standard drafting pencil I have trained myself to rotate the pencil automatically as I write.  This helps keep the lead from ovaling out.  With the Kuru Toga rotating the pencil defeats the principle of the auto rotating mechanism.  So I'm having to learn to hold the pencil without letting it rotate in my hand.

I've come to like using the Kuru Toga Roulette over all my other Mechanical/Drafting pencils.  I've always like the auto rotating mechanism but not the thickness of the original Kuru Toga or the grip of the High Grade.  The Roulette is the culmination of all the best features of the Kura Toga Series.

The Roulette as well as the full line of Kuru Toga's are available from our friends at JetPens.com
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5 comments:

  1. robJuly 21, 2011 at 6:50 AM

    I've got a couple of the original plastic Kuru Togas (blue and black) and am now waiting impatiently (along with a couple of friends) for our shiny new Roulettes to arrive from Japan (via the gods of ebay!)

    (I shouldn't be this excited about a pencil, but I am!)

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  2. caterina raySeptember 21, 2011 at 9:58 AM

    I love all different kinds of pens. They are one of my favorite school supplies to shop for!!!

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  3. AnonymousOctober 16, 2011 at 5:18 PM

    I owned a black Roulette model and I was under the impression that although the knurled grip is metal, the barrel is plastic.

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  4. personalized pensMarch 17, 2012 at 12:51 AM

    At this time Kuru Toga pencils is mostly sold in market. The only reason for this is, the silicone grips is nice and comfortable for the people.

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  5. AnonymousMay 3, 2013 at 5:13 PM

    I have a 0.5mm Roulette and a 0.3mm High Grade. As much as I like the Roulette, the fact that it doesn't come in 0.3mm is disappointing; as a mathematician, small writing is a must-have. The 0.3mm High Grade got my handwriting small enough that some of my friends can't even read it without magnification.

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