They have an amazing glide. They smell nice and have an all around nice feel to them.

Best notebooks I'ver ever had!

The Palomino 602 is an EXCELLENT firm leaded pencil that feels great, looks great, and writes MORE than GREAT!!! I LOVE IT!!!!

Great feedback and customer service

I love the pen. It writes smoothly and encourages me to hand write as part of discovering what I want to say.

Blackwing makes exceptional “everything” but their real magic is how they treat their customers. . nothing but amazing things to say!!! GREAT JOB!!!

I love these pencils. They were the first Blackwings I used and still my favorite.

Beautiful!

Love everything Blackwing! I tell people about you all the time.

Viagra for pencils!

Blackwing is great.

I hate how cool this set is…. . honestly it’s so gorgeous I’ll probably never use them. Well worth the money.

Flawless

Quick & easy transaction

I love Blackwing and I will keep supporting you by buying your wonderful products.

This is such a CLEVER invention. So handy when reading for taking notes,. and not losing the pencil. Kudos to Blackwing for invention and reasonably priced.

Great pencils

It did take a while to get shipped!!!! But I’m a happy camper and always love your pencils!!!

I'm a writing teacher and a pencil geek. I give my students pencils when they write excellent essays. I use a tiered system. First excellent essay gets a selection from one box: Mongol Incense Cedars, Forest Choice, Golden Bear Palominos. The second excellent essay gets a selection from a second box: Tom Bow, the range of excellent Mitsubishis, and General Cedar Points. Maybe a Mirado Black Warrior. But for a truly superlative piece, I offer my students Blackwings. The 602 is by far their favorite. It's the Cadillac of pencils. Handles well and looks pretty cool. You can tell a lot about a pencil when you sharpen it by hand. You can smell the fragrance of the wood and feel the smoothness of the graphite. Blackwings are a pleasure to sharpen, even more fun to write with, and feel inspirational because of the long line of Greats who used them in the past. (I'm a huge Steinbeck fan. ) I tell my students that Toni Morrison wrote Beloved on yellow legal pads with a Ticonderoga at 4 in the morning every day. In other words, it's the wizard, not the wand. But I like nice tools and I enjoy giving my students nice pencils as a way to inspire them and bring some magic into the process. Blackwings are three times as expensive as any of the Mitsubishis, which are a very close second, in my opinion, but I'll happily splurge a couple extra bucks to have something special in my hand.

Love these products, good transaction