Well, it's a nice engineering trick, but it seems kind of like featuritis --- doing something neat because you can. For me, in fact, pencil bluntness is a featu

Well, it's a nice engineering trick, but it seems kind of like featuritis --- doing something neat because you can. For me, in fact, pencil bluntness is a feature, not a defect. Thicker lines disguise the fact that my kanji handwriting isn't very aesthetical. Thinner lines bring out its ugliness and lack of balance into sharp relief. I wonder if this is a problem for any native writers as well. (On the other hand, the ones who want to show off their nice handwriting will probably be attracted to this pencil. Then those of us who use blunt/uneven pencils will be automatically assumed to be ugly-handwriters.)