Comments on: Blackwing 602 at Ninth Wave Designs.

by: Colleen

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:49:55 +0000

God, this CRUSHES me. About 10 or more years ago, I went to a major art supply store in San Diego, and after reading the book, “The Pencil”, I found a pile of the soon to be elusive Blackwing 602’s. I don’t recall how many I bought, maybe 10. I am a pencil and pen freak ( yeah maybe it’s the phallic thing lol but I don’t think so.)I’ve always had a love and fascination for writing implements. This is why it KILLS me, because I did have some half stubs of my Blackwings in one of my art boxes- and I was packing things up, and my EX boyfriend just stupidly thought my art box was worthless; well, it had odds and ends of dried pens, and broken colored pencils and old erasers and the like. But I KNOW it had at least two of the Blackwings, and I’ll just have to dry my eyes and move on. What a blow!

by: Ryan

Fri, 01 Sep 2006 13:29:13 +0000

Let’s not let the idea in this string die! A new post on the top of the Revolution homepage may be the spark needed to motivate people to write Sanford–I would. Sending them dozens of letters (on paper) would be fantastic–we could even request that comrades who write in do so in pencil!

Let’s keep this idea moving. While we may not be able to revive the Blackwing in its original state, Sanford may consider production of a limited quantity signature pencil for the Revolution. Think about the possibilities.

by: Bill Tweed

Thu, 11 May 2006 01:20:51 +0000

The Blackwing was a beautiful pencil. With the Blackwing, I could make great art while drawing up a grocery list. Who would ever have thought we would have to live without them? Like an old friend — when they’re gone we learn their true value in our lives. Resurrect the Blackwing!!!

by: Slywy

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:38:00 +0000

I saw this: http://www.amspecial.com/main/mongol/yel_mong.html

Same thing?

by: Slywy

Sat, 19 Nov 2005 12:36:00 +0000

I’m new to following the pencil world — I have maybe a dozen and a half Mongol #1s from college in my closet, most unsharpened. I take it they’re no longer available? In college, we all loved our Mongols. The bookstore carried them.

by: Michael Leddy

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 21:07:00 +0000

Ninth Wave, my favorite Mongols are hexagonal #1s and #2s, depending upon the paper. (Yes, there were round Mongols too.)

I really love the old “2 and 3/8″ Mongols, but I have only a handful that my Dad gave me from an old drawer. I love the idea of a world that took the grading of pencil-lead so seriously.

by: Anonymous

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 20:09:00 +0000

Okay, I’ve been reading about this pencil for a while - surely the fascination is with that eraser? There are many 4B pencils from companies with reputations as good or better than Sanford - Staedtler, General Pencil, Faber Castell, Derwent, and many others. Are all of those 4Bs truly less capable than the Blackwing?

by: Ninth Wave Designs

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 14:55:00 +0000

Michael - What’s your favorite Mongol?

What might work is if a more dedicated pencil manufacturer bought the rights to the Blackwing “recipe” and took matters into their own hands. This, in a sense, it what happened with the Moleskine, which was originally made in France (hence the French name) and is now made famous again by an Italian company.

And I agree, a reborn Blackwing would be the perfect weapon of choice for Pencil Revolutionaries! - Ninth Wave

by: ycc2106

Wed, 31 Aug 2005 10:26:00 +0000

nice photos

by: Michael Leddy

Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:46:00 +0000

I too love Blackwings (I have 18 stashed away), as well as Mongols (of which I still have dozens–no, not for sale).

It seems to me that Sanford is missing a real opportunity to bring back the Blackwing as a high-end pencil. It has a distinguised history–various American writers have sung its praises. It has, well, class–it’s like the pencil equivalent of the Parker 51 fountain pen. I can easily imagine the Blackwing, with or without the distinctive ferrule, as a lugzhury iterm in something like the Levenger catalogue.