* (Rae): The year was 1932.
Eberhard Faber and his pencil company unleashed to the world their brand-new
game-changing revolutionary pencil, the Blackwing 602.
Dubbed "half the pressure, twice the speed,"
this pencil wasn't unlike anything the world had seen up until that point.
The lead was dark like a charcoal pencil, and at the same time it had the durability of a soft lead pencil,
a combination absolutely unheard of at the time, not to mention the eraser was 100% removable AND replaceable,
which meant you can use up the whole entire pencil which was a game-changer at the time.
And the pencil immediately gained worldwide recognition,
especially amongst famous people. And here, here's just a little taste of the famous users who use this pencil.
Stephen King, who has been considered one of the best horror authors of all time.
The powerhouse that is Chuck Jones,
who if you don't know, was the main animator for all of the Looney Tunes.
We got John Lennon from the Beatles, John Steinbeck...
It's featured in one of my favorite TV shows, Mad Men!
The Sherman Brothers, who wrote the music for Mary Poppins, Winnie the Pooh, and The Jungle Book. And let's not forget the most famous user,
Walt, motherheckin, Disney!
To say this pencil did well is kind of an understatement. It did so good,
they even created a whole entire line of different finishes JUST for this pencil.
But as time went on, the 90s came, new technology started to arise as well as
better quality pencils for cheaper.
And the demand for the Blackwing just declined, and in
1998, when the machine that made these pencils broke, they didn't even bother to fix it because so little people wanted the pencil.
But that changed in 2012 when Palomino brands bought the rights for the 602 Blackwing and
restarted production! And of course,
I bought it and we're gonna see what the whole fuss about this pencil is about and we're gonna find out, is it really
THE BEST PENCIL EVER CREATED?
*Music*
Bum,
ba da dum,
ba da da ba ba da da ba da da daa,
da da da,
da da da da da da daaaaah!
And I've had the box of pencils just sitting on my shelf and every single time
I pass it, just like, the anticipation was too much. So I'm excited to finally get my hands in there and open it.
Get rid of that.
I feel like this box is gigantic, especially when you compare it to a normal sized pencil,
I feel like it's just huge. Now,
this box specifically is the 12-count Palomino Blackwing. Now,
I bought the 12-pack for, I wanna say about
$27 on Amazon.
Which, when you break that down, comes out to $2.25 per pencil.
Which is nuts, especially when you consider my favorite pencils of ALL time, the Inc. SoftScript pencils from Dollar Tree,
I love these babies.
So when you do the math, these Palomino Black wings are
*Voice gets increasingly deeper* nine times the price
*Normal voice* of my favorite sanskrit mechanical pencils.
Alright guys, so here is the moment we have all been waiting for, and for the price that I paid,
I really hope it lives up to expectations.
(Impressed): Oh!
Oh wow, look at this. Look at the size of this! It is so large in comparison, what the heck?
Now, I just want to say that I am loving this black and gold shiny
aesthetic, that is very very nice.
It feels very luxurious and I can definitely see why the
appeal for so many celebrities, just by the looks of it,
I can see why so many like, famous celebrities gravitated towards it. And this eraser has an absolutely incredible
design because as you use it,
you basically can adjust the eraser up,
and as you do that,
it's basically like using a brand new eraser every single time and when you run out of eraser,
you can replace it with another one. And so when these came out in the 30s, I can see why it was such a
game-changer.
But, but but but, to play devil's advocate,
I mean, in 2019
we have cap erasers, which basically do the exact same thing, they're cheaper, they have a much thinner tip,
they go pretty much on every single pencil, pen, anything that you want. And plus, they come in so many fun colors!
But again, I am here for the packaging and I think it's very luxurious. Even the inside has some pretty nice detail.
You know it's bad when I have to hype up the cardboard box. *Laughs*
*Music*
I know what you guys are seeing is just like a super tiny little line that I drew but I can already tell you this is
a very, very dark pencil. It's so dark it kind of looks like a black colored pencil. That's crazy.
See how soft it can get.
Wow! Okay, go off.
Go off!
It kind of reminds me of like, a darkness of a charcoal pencil,
but it goes really really light which is something you don't really see with a charcoal pencil.
All right, I'm gonna do a smear test and we'll see if it smears.
So it doesn't smear that bad, like nothing out of the ordinary
so that's nothing to rave about but I'm really, right off the bat, impressed with how dark that is. That's crazy!
So when a pencil is really soft, any amount of pressure just will absolutely
destroy it. And when a pencil is really dense, any kind of pressure won't really do much of anything to it.
And supposedly, this pencil is a freak hybrid of both. So, let's see.
Huh, okay, totally weird, but
the really thin part of the pointy pencil was very easy to break,
but once you get to the more dense area, it's - less hard to break?
All I'm saying is that in my 26 years of life, I have never seen a pencil do this before.
*Background music*
Alright, so the first pencil we're gonna be testing out is 2B or not 2B, that is the question. And if you don't
know, pretty much every pencil that you have ever used in your life is a 2B.
Next up, we're gonna test out 5H,
which is a very very light pencil, and this pencil as you can see is like, very soft,
it's not as like, defined as a regular writing pencil. Lastly,
I read reports online that the Palomino Blackwing is pretty much equivalent to a 3B,
so I'm gonna test out against a 3B just to make sure.
And here, of course, is the Palomino.
Dang, it's dark! And the lightest pencil you think would be the 5H, but it's actually the Palomino!
Whaat?
I'm gonna try to replicate this with my everyday pencil, so you guys can see what the heck I'm talking about.
I'm also going to try it against charcoal so you can see what I mean by "it's dark like charcoal."
The charcoal pencil is very dark and it continues to stay dark.
The 2B pencil is very precise,
and it goes from light to lighter. The Palomino goes from an incredibly soft
dark pencil all the way to a really light shade,
which is pretty much unheard of when it comes to pencils. And I am a little bit shocked right now because I honestly
thought I was gonna go into this video like,
*High-pitched voice* Ha ha ha! These are just expensive 2B pencils!
*Normal voice* But, I mean, immediately the results are in the pudding! And by the way, I forgot to tell you guys,
*Sniffs*
they kind of do smell like a hardware store.
*Music*
Now, I am an art channel, but for today's drawing I'm not gonna focus on making like, an insanely good piece of art
because I am gonna be drawing this three different tie - times with three different pencils,
and of course, as requested, I am not, from my last video,
I'm not gonna use the carbon method
so it might look a little wonky compared to the other threes,
but I really just wanted to test this video out and FOCUS on testing this pencil out.
And might I say, everything was working pretty good,
I was very impressed with everything and I had a pretty good time, up until...
I had to adjust the eraser.
Now, I don't know if it's cause I'm a noob with these pencils,
I've never used them before,
but I really struggled getting that thing out, putting it back in, adjusting it and I don't know, all this stuff when I could have easily just got
an eraser cap or an eraser or an eraser pencil, literally ANYTHING but having to mess with this.
Now, with the power of editing, I'm gonna speed up the
mechanical pencil and the charcoal pencil drawing. That way you don't have to watch me draw this literally three different times!
*Music*
All righty, so when you compare the mechanical pencil to the Palomino Blackwing pencil, yes,
there is a clear difference. It is much, much superior than the mechanical pencil.
I mean, just like the depth of this pencil - ahh!
- it truly is incredible. And whenever you go over to the charcoal side,
you can see the charcoal is darker but I mean, there's just something so like, artsy about the Palomino. Now honestly,
is this the best pencil of all time?
*Drumroll*
I would have to say at one point, yes,
but now in 2020 there is so much more available to us, so many different options for so much cheaper than $27.
It's a great pencil. But if you're an everyday person, I would skip out on it.
And with that being said guys, Happy Holidays and a really wonderful New Year. Bye!
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