That’s the feeling the Pilot G2 leaves you with every time you use it. There’s simply no smoother, more easily gliding pen out there. It’s like an extension of your own hand, really.

Anyway, the Pilot Precise pens are available at most drugstores, cheap; I usually buy them by the dozen. They are very smooth, even on bad paper — I don’t have to press on them to write.

PILOT’s pens have been used in South Africa for over 50 years. A subsidiary, Pilot Pen South Africa (PPSA) was established by Pilot Pen U.K. in the country in 1997. In 2006, ...