Does anyone know when Pilot introduced the S3, S5, S10 and S20 pencils?
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@Linus2K posted this a while back
See: Vintage Pilot Double-Knocks - #48 by Linus2K
I’m not clear what the “11” in “2000-11~” means but I am assuming that it means:
- S3 came out in November 2000
- S5 came out in August 2001
- S10 came out in August 2001
- S20 came out in March 2003
- S30 came out in March 2021
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When was yellow discontinued? 2023?
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Wow, the s series has been around way longer than I thought. Does this mean the s20 came out while the vanishing point was still around?
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Thank you! I wouldn’t have thought that the S3-S20 had been around for so long.
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As far as I know, the end of production was announced at the beginning of 2023.
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These were also labeled H-32X during the 00s. I don’t know when production began.
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That’s right! And there were also opaque variants in that series which weren’t available as S3.
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That’s the one—I’ve got a complete set of 'em.
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By the way, there was (is?) also a brown H-325.
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Dammit 
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It’s still available: https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005005759189246.html 
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But still according to the ISO, 0.9 should be red, not this ocher-orange color.
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I’ll never forgive the ISO for not making 0.5 red. It’s dead to me.
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Hey what is the ISO standard that associates colors to lead sizes?
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Thanks Domingo
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But ISO colors don’t mean much to the Japanese companies. The European companies followed this more closely.
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