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Depends upon what type work you are doing. If it is just writing, either learn to use less pressure when using the mechanical pencil or switch to a wood one. I use wood pencils for drafting and mechanical drawing because I can use the different hardness/softness (#1, #2, #3, etc) as it is stamped on the shaft. A mechanical pencil does not have that and it would be a guessing game to remember what lead you have in it.

Regular wood pencils. The lead for mechanical pencils is expensive, and I don't live near a store that sells it. Just give me a regular pencil, or better yet a pen.

Depends on what I'm doing. Mechanical pencils are great, no need to sharpen but wood pencils are better for shading when doing illustration work.

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Wood

I like both, and both can be used separately or together to get very nice effects. Overall though, I use mechanical pencils, and have come up with several artistic uses for them.

I prefer to use mechanical pencil's as it saves you having to sharpen it all the time :)

Wood Pencil...........

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Mechanical with 0.5mm lead :)