Blackwing 602

The Blackwing 602 is a pencil that is noted for its soft, dark graphite, unique flat square ferrule and replaceable eraser.

This claim was meant to appeal to stenographers, as the 602 possessed the unique softness and smoothness of a 3B/4B lead but with the rate-of-wear of an HB;[4] however the 602 quickly evolved from an office tool to that of the artist.

White, [9] composers Aaron Copland,[10] Leonard Bernstein,[11] John Williams,[12] Stephen Sondheim,[13] Nelson Riddle,[14] and Quincy Jones,[15] playwrights Eugene O'Neill,[16] and Arthur Laurents,[17] the filmmaker Todd Field,[18][19] and the poet Archibald MacLeish.

In 1994, the line was acquired from Faber-Castell by the Sanford division of Newell Rubbermaid, who reverted the pencil back to its Eberhard Faber Blackwing 602 branding.

[21] During this same period, the machine used to produce the metal clip in the pencil’s unique ferrule and eraser system broke.