Sun-Star Metacil Pocket Pencil

Sun-Star is a Japanese stationery company that plans, develops, manufactures and sells stationery and gifts with interesting and new design concepts.

Pocket sized version of its big brother, a pencil made entirely from metal: The Metacil. The revolutionary metal pencil voted as the most popular product of 2022 by highly respected Japanese newspaper Nikkei MK and winner of the Paperworld Middle East 2023 stationery product of the year award.

The body is made from aluminium in a range of different colours, while the core is made from a special alloy containing graphite. The graphite and metal alloy work together to produce a line - lighter than a normal pencil mark - when friction is applied. Due to the special properties of the core, the Metacil is capable of writing a 16km long straight line without sharpening. The tip is quite fragile though so we would recommend just using it with paper to avoid any issues!

There are replacement tips for them of course. The tip itself writes in a colour most similar to a 2H lead.

Measures: 120 x 7.8mm; Weight 26g.