Kezuri Cap
From Plastic Bottles Into Pencil Sharpeners

Date：22, Feb, 2014
Investigated and Written by Misaka Youhei
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Oguri Cap is a late great thoroughbred horse that made the debut in 1987 and won the Arima Kinen, the Yasuda Kinen and other large prize races. Today it is our commonsense counting him among Three Important Horses of Heisei, in Japan. Following his name or not, anyway, a product which named as Kezuri Cap appeared in May of 2012.

Well, well, what on earth is Kezuri Cap? That is a pencil sharpener. Kezuri means sharpening in Japanese. Then, what should Cap point? It changes your plastic bottle into a pencil sharpener. Yes, you know, Cap means plastic bottle caps.

Drinking all content, and you would just throw the bottle away. Nowadays some reuse it as a flask. However, you can never use many times because it gets more unsanitary. Then, there is a plastic bottle in order to be said good bye and you think you want it to mark the end of its career. Now, it is turn of Kezuri Cap for making it a pencil sharpener.

Take it easy and use that. Off the plastic bottle cap and put the Kezuri Cap instead. Insert a pencil to be sharpened into that and just shave it. Inside the bottle, the occurrence gets.

It got very popular because of that interesting using. During eight months, they sold 500,000 caps. That was a big hit. Why do you guess it happened? It is considered it is very unique and interesting. That is all, I believe. If you try to use, you will go sharpen your pencils more than necessary.

So I would like you to take it as a topic of your conversation. Never bargain for genuine pencil sharpeners. It is not very good shaving. There is a little expensive, electric sharpener on their line, but…