Blackwing, headquartered in Stockton, California, builds its case for analog creative tools by showing the work. A behind-the-scenes video follows the graphite cores through specialised Japanese factories, into a wood shop where pencils are sandwiched between slats, sliced and trimmed to their hexagonal profile, then painted and labelled with up to ten coats of lacquer. The instruments finish in Stockton, where a proprietary machine sets each eraser and every pencil is inspected by hand.
