If there ever was a pencil that was well-appreciated, it was this. I have a terrible urge to write with one of these.
I have been late to the party, but there is nothing like a legal pad, and a pencil, to get your thoughts flowing. I also hate yellow pencils. Which brings us to why pencils are mostly yellow, not counting the “Nataraj” and “Pinky” pencils I grew up on. Pencils are mostly yellow because that is the color associated (or previously associated) with royalty in China, and that’s where most of the pencils came from in the early days.
I buy Mirado Black Warriors, just because I hate yellow pencils as well. And lol @ the frog in the eBay listing.
[...] the article I wrote about the BlackWing 602 pencil earlier? Well, I was curious to see how the sale ended, and popped into ebay. Then I [...]
I collect pencils and I bought 31 of these on ebay in a couple of different transactions and watched them double in price within a year. I am currnently using one. It’s amazing.
The author Joseph Finder, whose website I manage, just made the Blackwing 602 the subject of his December newsletter… he’s obsessed, too, and claims to have a secret stash.
You can read the article here:http://www.josephfinder.com/content_newsletter/newsletter.asp#11e094f6074b3c08_articles_3