Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder objectivity goes out the window while subjectivity comes in to all potential receivers of pens. The essential thing is for that to keep my feet on the ground and allow others room to exercise their judgements and spending money how where and when they choose. Remember the Citroen car the basic car would never pass the sniff test of high end but fulfilled the dream for incredible numbers of us, the mini minor heavens I had responsibility for a fleet of them complete with technicians when the space race was in full swing and dishes located in snow bound road crazy places with living in the nations capital through the Iron Curtain times govt whims.
Differences stand out, high quality?, High end ?
Who makes the decision?
What kits do I class as high end?
I answer all of these every time I look at a pen reserving these impressions, trying to look at every pen I see as someone elses opportunity to express their way of making and showing.
Who is an expert among us we all have our free will to choose.
Makers those clouded people made up of huge numbers of small industry makers of parts gathered together in clans or families who sell to the bidders collated into baggies, distributed by various means to us.
I dont have a horse in this race., always put my meagre money where my mouth is, just do the best I can who else do you know who really likes Slimlines with Streamline centre bands?
Peter.
