California Cedar’s re-released Blackwing pencils are now in stock at Pencils.com! Priced at $19.95 per dozen (or $163.98 for a gross), this product costs nearly twice as much as the Palomino brand, but still much less than the market value for an original Blackwing.
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The Powers That Be over at Palimpsest are accepting submissions for their Pick-a-Pen and Post-a-Stub page! If you have a story to share about your favorite writing instrument, and don’t have a blog, or simply want to diversify your byline, check it out. Tell ’em Andy sent you. I think I’ll be submitting something too, as soon as I figure out what to talk about. I do have some good pen stories… Continue reading
I got a beautiful Rhodia academic planner in the mail, and I don’t know where it came from! I may have to try it out and review it…
Sean at Blackwing Pages just posted about report that some of the softer lead varieties of the Eberhard-Faber Microtomic (what a great name!) looked and felt like the über-smooth writing experience of a Blackwing. Go to that post to see the review, but one thing he said really stood out to me:
… [B]eing as objective as possible the first thing I noticed was how things sounded. Yes, you read correctly, how things sounded. Continue reading
I just found an old Dixon Tri-conderoga in storage that I’ve forgotten about. I used to use these things almost exclusively. It’s comfortable, has a hearty eraser, and has a rubberized barrel. Isn’t it pretty?
