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What a place! What a hoot! $100 pencils, $1000 pens! :notworthy1:

 

I think I'm going to start repackaging old stock Scott toilet paper, made from first-generation old-growth forest at $50/roll. :thumbup:

After all, I'm worth only the best (Mr. Entitlement, here) :happyberet:

 

It may be expensive, but you can feel the difference - as you wipe your butt! :roflmho:

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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

 

~ Bernard Shaw.

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Blackwing pencils are the tastiest, hands down, no contest. A little nibble while imbibing an ancient brandy? TO DIE FOR!

 

As for toilet paper, where I work, you can wipe your...self with integrity. You can't put a price tag on that.

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1126/1443172511_594667c207.jpg

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Omygod, somebody stole my idea! :headsmack:

 

And then somebody else took a picture of it!!! :crybaby:

 

 

The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.

 

~ Bernard Shaw.

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I always love these topics on the Blackwing 602 . There is always the "sub-topic" where we all put forward suggestions for a worthy replacement for the 602. I have spent nearly ten years looking for one and have tried maybe 25 currently available models ranging from the Palominos, through the Mono-100 and beyond. Some come close on lead quality (Mono-100) while others look pretty sharp ( Palominos).

 

However, I have never really found another pencil which has the whole deal, great lead wrapped in the coolest retro looking colour scheme and prnting. It may be that as in golf, there will only ever be one Jack Nicklaus, with pencils , there will only ever be one Blackwing 602.

 

I have one on my desk right now ready to write or draw.I bought a number of them a few years ago when they were going for less than $10 per pencil and thought they were good buying at that price.

 

Hopefully my stash will last longer than I do so I will never really have to find a replacement

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. . . with pencils , there will only ever be one Blackwing 602.

 

Amen.

 

I still have about a dozen fresh ones and 10 or so part used. Unfortunately they will not outlive me.

 

Todd

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What a place! What a hoot! $100 pencils, $1000 pens! :notworthy1:

 

I think I'm going to start repackaging old stock Scott toilet paper, made from first-generation old-growth forest at $50/roll. :thumbup:

After all, I'm worth only the best (Mr. Entitlement, here) :happyberet:

 

It may be expensive, but you can feel the difference - as you wipe your butt! :roflmho:

 

 

Blackwing pencils are the tastiest, hands down, no contest. A little nibble while imbibing an ancient brandy? TO DIE FOR!

 

As for toilet paper, where I work, you can wipe your...self with integrity. You can't put a price tag on that.

 

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1126/1443172511_594667c207.jpg

 

This thread is probably dead, but just can't resist.

 

lmao!

 

You two really seem to have been on a roll

 

Batta-Boom- Batta-Bang!

 

<dodging rotten fruit - makes speedy exit stage left>

 

--Bruce

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I had a box of these gifted to me a few months ago from a friend at work. Her ex-boyfriend had stacks of them and didn't have a clue what they were worth. I showed up at work one day and there it was: a smallish black and white box with 12 unsharpened Blackwings inside. Even the erasers were fresh.

 

The only caveat was that I had to use them; no hoarding, no hawking. I've worked through one and recently sharpened my second. Quite simply, I love them. At first I was hesitant to sharpen the things but there is something wonderful about seeing such a pencil used up, like eating a meal that seems to beautiful to touch.

 

I blogged a short review (here and here) about them a while back.

 

Here is a picture for your visual enjoyment.

 

http://joshferrin.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/img_8913.jpg

 

Oh yeah. This was my first post at FPN. And it was about a pencil. :headsmack:

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So am I correct in saying that a price of $1000 or so for a NOS box of Blackwing 602 pencils is justifiable?

 

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So am I correct in saying that a price of $1000 or so for a NOS box of Blackwing 602 pencils is justifiable?

 

Shamouti

Seems a little steep even for 602s. Last few I saw sell were more in the $250 range for a box of 12.

 

Are you looking?

 

Todd

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Well, I think if I could get an eraser section for a 602, I might be able to create some tooling to recreate that part. Who knows, I know that is what makes the Blackwing more significant. Also, if someone could find out the chemical composition for the lead, it could be useful, too. If we may pool our ideas, we can do some research to find out what we can come up.

 

Just an idea, though. It's good to never underestimate innovation.

 

Shamouti

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For those who never knew the EF Blackwing ("HALF THE PRESSURE. TWICE THE SPEED"), read Henry Petroski's "The Pencil". It writes more easily and darker than any other pencil. Scanning the comments, no, it was not the flat eraser that made the Blackwing desirable.

 

One of the web-sites claimed that Berol (Sanford/Papermate/Waterman/Rubbermaid) had a Black Warrior model with the same "lead" as the Blackwing. Mentioned the model number.

 

So...$250 for a box of Blackwings? (Chuckling) I'm holding a box with my last two Eberhard Faber Blackwings.

 

Got the box along with five or six dozen EF Mongol Number 1 from a dusty stationary called "Wall St. Pen", located, of course, in the 40's between Madison and 5th...nowhere near Wall Street. It's the sort of place that never dumped any stock, and years after Eberhard Faber had sold out to Faber Castell, I found all sorts of EF #3 and 4 and other odd-ball pencils.

 

In my own search, the California Republic Palamino 2B (no eraser) is about the closest I can find to the Blackwing. Not the same, but better than most.

 

Remember that song? "Don't it always seem to go / that you don't know what you've got til it's gone".

 

 

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