Reviving the Blackwing: One Year In Saturday October 1st will mark the first anniversary of the “rebirth” of the Blackwing pencil brand with our Palomino Blackwing pencil. This was followed in June by our introduction of the Palomino Blackwing 602 model, which more closely replicated the look, feel and performance of the original Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 pencil. We’ve been […]
Notebook Evolution As we approach the one year anniversary of the introduction of our Palomino Blackwing pencil we are nearing the next step in the evolution of the Palomino and Blackwing product ranges as we get set to introduce our first series of journals, sketchbooks and notebooks. In addition, we’ll also be complementing our ForestChoice FSC […]
Hearst and Morgan: An Architectural Collaboration with a Pencil Connection My wife and I recently completed a driving vacation down the California coast which included an overnight stop in San Simeon where we visited Hearst Castle. Each of us had been there separately as children, but clearly our appreciation of this architectural gem and the vision […]
Palomino Blackwing Setting Design Trends Recently we’ve received a few great examples of how some forward thinking customers have been using our Palomino Blackwing pencils as an integral part of their promotional efforts in their own businesses. As you’ll see our Blackwings can make a great design and quality statement as a corporate gift in […]
Note: This is republished from WoodChuck’s personal blog about the pencil industry, Timberlines. See the original post and comment thread by clicking here. Chinese Pencil Anti-Dumping Duties Revisted Bloomberg.com published an article on June 27th covering the pencil industry titled “New Jersey Pencil Maker Cedes No. 2’s to China”. While the title refers specifically to […]
This post is in celebration of the launch of the new Palomino Blackwing 602 we release for sale at midnight tonight and as a fun way to share my own poetic creativity this month given our contest themes. Thus I’ve written my own “Ode to Blackwing” shared here below. Not a great literary effort, but […]
Cumberland Pencil Museum Turns 30 This morning I found the following link to a story covering this past weekend’s 30th Anniversary Celebration of the Cumberland Pencil Museum. The museum is located in the heart of England’s Cumbria lake district in the town of Keswick in what was formerly the canteen of the Cumberland Pencil factory. […]
Reviving the Blackwing: The All New Palomino Blackwing 602 Well folks I have some exciting things to share with you in this update. We’ve recently received the first small production batch of the new Palomino Blackwing 602 model. This is just 5000 pencils with the next 25,000 schedule for arrival early in June. But more […]
Note: This is republished from WoodChuck’s personal blog about the pencil industry, Timberlines. See the original post and comment thread by clicking here. Pencils.com Helps Japanese Disaster Victims We were greatly disturbed to see the tragic events and human suffering resulting from the earthquake and tsunami last week in Japan. The devastation caused by one […]
Note: This is republished from WoodChuck’s personal blog about the pencil industry, Timberlines. See the original post and comment thread by clicking here. Reviving the Blackwing: March Update Okay, Blackwing fans, we have a few new developments to bring you up to date about. First, based on feedback received on my last post and elsewhere […]
