The Blackwing Natural features an exposed incense cedar barrel with a subtle clear matte finish and our popular extra-firm graphite. It’s our firmest pencil available. Every Blackwing Natural pencil features a gold imprint, grey eraser, and the iconic square Blackwing ferrule top. Blackwing Natural pencils come in packs of 12. Blackwing pencils are cased in genuine Incense-cedar from the forests of California and Oregon and smooth, extra-firm graphite from Japan. These are the perfect pencils for teachers, college students, and anyone who likes to draw. Keep them in your home office so you’ll always be prepared to write something down. Blackwing Natural pencils come in packs of 12. Purchase a Blackwing sharpener and one of our notebooks and you’ll be set for a luxurious, high-end writing or sketching experience. Blackwing pencils were first introduced by the Eberhard Faber Pencil Company in the 1930s. Their cult following included John Steinbeck and Chuck Jones, who proudly used Blackwings to create Bugs Bunny and many other Looney Tunes characters. Over the years, the pencil with the unique rectangular eraser became synonymous with quality. However, due to cost cuts, they were discontinued in the 1990s. That didn’t stop devotees from paying as much as $40 per pencil for unused stock. In 2010, we drew from nearly a century of experience to access the best materials in the world and bring Blackwing back for a new generation of writers, musicians, and others seeking a more natural existence.