Added Value Regular commenter Saltire Turquoise posed a very interesting question to my initial description of Sakai Eisuke's prototypes made for Pilot in early 1980s: Why can't Pilot make pens like those?


Although probably intended as a rhetorical, it does trigger some reflections on the current situation of the pen market.


The first and easy answer to that question is a series of economic concerns—is
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