CG;

I don't think the ones on Amazon are round - the base of the cone produced
by sharpening is round if the pencil is round, scalloped if the pencil is
hexagonal. My $.02

Steve in Kokomo

On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 8:27 PM, CheekyGeek  wrote:

> That's hilarious, Chuck.
>
> As some of you probably know the Holy Grail of pencils was the Eberhard
> Faber Blackwing 602. They are round, not hexagonal. You have a chance to
> get a box of 8 on eBay right now, if you like:
> http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-BLACKWING-602-VINTAGE-EBERHARD-FABER-
PENCILS-WITH-ORIGINAL-BOX-/331315141490">http://www.ebay.com/itm/8-BLACKWING-602
-VINTAGE-EBERHARD-FABER-PENCILS-WITH-ORIGINAL-BOX-/331315141490
>
> They routinely bring $40-50 each.
>
> Well recently a company called Palomino is trading on the name:
> http://www.amazon.com/Palomino-Blackwing-
Pencils-12-Count/dp/B006CQWILK">http://www.amazon.com/Palomino-Blackwing-
Pencils-12-Count/dp/B006CQWILK
> They get good reviews, but it is not clear to me if they are really the
> same formulation, but I think I'm going to give them a try. I recall my
> dad, who was an assistant manager at a Safeway store (before they closed
> down the whole central U.S. division) bringing home pencils that (I seem to
> recall were branded IBM) and they were, I believe Eberhard Faber Dark Wing
> 602s. Writing or sketching with them was BLISS, not like the hard graphite
> crap in pencils today.
>
> Just wondering if anyone else remembers these wonderful old tools.
>
> Darren Addy
> Kearney, Nebraska
>
>