His company, Berolzheimer wrote, was embarking on a mission to revive what had become known as "the best pencil ever made": the Blackwing 602. Berolzheimer, whose family began making pencils in ...

Since then, Blackwing addicts have had to face the inevitable. “Of all tools,” says DreamWorks Animation’s Jenny Lerew, who blogs about the 602, “a great pencil is meant to be used ...

"The ideal pencil would have '6B blackness with 9H hardness,'" Mitsubishi noted in ... Previously: • First impression of the ...

It’s very fragrant. It’s very simple, and it’s slightly soft, but I think it has the perfect hardness for writing.” “This was Palomino’s premium pencil before they made the Blackwing, and they’re just ...

No Blackwing pencil has any kind of lead grade printed on its box or barrel. Its core is roughly akin to a typical No. 2/HB in its darkness and hardness, but it isn’t graded as such. So if you ...

In 1998, the pencil world (yes, there’s a world for that) mourned the end of the “best pencil ever made,” the Blackwing 602 by Eberhard-Faber, used by the likes of Steven Sondheim. California Cedar ...

And if you’re really going to do it right, you’ll want that pencil to be a Blackwing. (Another fun fact about Sondheim: He was a known fan of writing with Blackwings, and it’s said that he ...

The Blackwing pencil, made legend by the likes of John Steinbeck, Truman Capote, Leonard Bernstein, animator Chuck Jones and especially Stephen Sondheim, is back. I even got to road test it last week.

A ferrule also is one of the more noticeable oddities you'll find on a Blackwing 602 pencil. The tube-like, not-quite-gold-colored metal band is fixed on the end and has clipped to it a flat ...