Palomino Blackwing 602 Pencils - Set of 12

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These drawing pencils are made from renewable Californian Incense Cedar wood combined with the highest-quality graphite core. The pencils are made from renewable Californian Incense Cedar wood and combined with a very high-quality graphite core, resulting in one of the best pencils for writing and drawing. Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics (1981–2011), with Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes and Miscellany. The 602 Blackwing model of this celebrated pencil has the tagline ‘half the pressure, twice the speed’.

The iconic Palomino Blackwing 602 pencil has gained a worldwide reputation as ‘the finest pencil ever made’. In 2008, California Cedar Products Company acquired the Blackwing name and reintroduced the Blackwing 602 pencil under its Palomino division in June 2011.However, this is only an approximation of the original Blackwing, lacking the graphite formula of the original, Blackwing in name only. In 1994, the line was acquired from Faber-Castell by the Sanford division of Newell Rubbermaid, who reverted the pencil back to its Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 branding. It was manufactured by the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company from 1934 to 1988, then by the Faber-Castell pencil company from 1988 to 1994 and by Sanford from 1994 to 1998. During this same period, the machine used to produce the metal clip in the pencil’s unique ferrule and eraser system broke.

Blackwing 602 pencils are made with firm graphite and are the hardest pencil in the Blackwing range. Blackwing are renowned all over the world for their quality (and that little square eraser on the end of their pencils! The pencil lead gives a smooth, opaque mark, and has a superior firmness when compared with other pencils. A box of these pencils is held in the Harvard University Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments.The iconic Palomino Blackwing pencil has gained a worldwide reputation as "the finest pencil ever made". The pencils are made from renewable Californian Incense Cedarwood combined with the highest-quality graphite core. The rounded hexagonal barrel is made of genuine incense cedar and is capped with a copper-colored ferrule which holds a black, square-ended eraser. The lead in Palomino Blackwing pencils gives a smooth, very opaque mark, and has a superior firmness when compared with other pencils.