It's mostly really good!

This mechanical pencil has the right balance and weight (heft) to it that I find far exceeds the feel of plastic ones. It's mostly metal which I really like as well, except for one weak link in the design. If you drop it on a hard surface, and it lands on the writing end, it can break some kind of plastic sleeve that resides in the barrel. If this sleeve breaks the pencil is rendered useless. This has happened twice to me. I'm on my third Graph Gear 1000. I put up with what I consider a design flaw in the pencil because I do like the "feel" of the pencil. I'm very careful now about trying to avoid dropping the pencil. For the expense of the pencil - it is more expensive than your typical mechanical pencil, it seems to me this "plastic sleeve" in the barrel could be either better designed, or made of metal. One feature of the pencil I really like is that the clutch that holds the graphite in place allows the graphite to be placed back into the pencil. This saves me getting poked with the sharp writing end when I carry the pencil in my jeans pocket.

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