VOLUMES PENCIL RELEASE GUIDE
(courtesy of Blackwing)Blackwing Volumes Release Guide
| VOLUMES NUMBER | VOLUMES PENCIL | VOLUMES SUBJECT | PENCIL DETAILS | GRAPHITE CORE | SUBSCRIBER GIFT | RELEASE DATE |
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Sunburst Gradient inspired by the Fender Stratocaster |
Balanced |
N/A |
July 2015 |
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Natural Exposed Woodgrain |
Firm |
Cedar Plank engraved with the state of California |
September 2015 |
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Stripped Barrel featuring "A Trip to the Moon" Movie Barcode. Our first Volume with a Silver Ferrule |
Soft |
Movie Barcode Print made from "A Trip to the Moon" |
December 2015 |
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Black Barrel with Black Imprint, Black Ferrule and Black Eraser |
Extra-firm |
Portrait Postcard of John Steinbeck |
March 2016 |
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Blue Pinstripe on a White Barrel |
Firm |
Baseball Scoring Card Kit |
July 2016 |
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Deep Red Darkroom Hue Barrel and Red Ferrule |
Firm |
Pinhole Camera |
September 2016 |
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Gold Barrel and Gold Ferrule with a Black Stripe |
Extra-firm |
Digital Download of "California" by Willy Tea Taylor |
December 2016 |
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Green Jade and White Jade variants |
Firm |
Blackwing Clutch Notebook |
March 2017 |
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Tahoe Blue Barrel with a raised texture of the lake's topography |
Soft |
Donation to "Keep Tahoe Blue" and Bumper Sticker |
June 2017 |
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Matte Grey Washcoat Finish |
Balanced |
Guy Clark Embroidered Patch |
September 2017 |
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Matte White Barrel and Black Ferrule |
Firm |
Cal Cedar Centennial Pencil |
December 2017 |
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Rose Barrel with Teal Imprint |
Extra-firm |
"Exquisite Corpse" Games |
March 2018 |
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Red Stained Barrel with "壱万壱" Imprint |
Firm |
Custom designed KenKen Puzzles |
June 2018 |
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Matte Black Barrel with Gloss Black banding to emulate the grooves on a vinyl record |
Balanced |
Vinyl in a Bottle |
September 2018 |
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Rust Colored Laquer with Sand-Textured Finish |
Soft |
Solar System illustration by Samantha Dion Baker |
December 2018 |
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Emerald Gradient Glow-in-the-Dark Finish |
Firm |
Glow-in-the-Dark Bookmark |
March 2019 |
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Matte Grey Newsprint Barrel |
Extra-firm |
"Ten Days in a Mad-house" Newspaper |
June 2019 |
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White Barrel with Blue Imprint, Red "42" and "Road Gray" Ferrule |
Balanced |
"Road Gray" Point Guard |
August 2019 |
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Bauhaus inspired colors and shapes with a first-ever Black eraser clip |
Soft |
Bauhaus Eraser Set |
November 2019 |
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Sea Green Barrel with a Gold Foil accent in the shape of the California coastline |
Balanced |
Vol. 840 Clutch Notebook |
March 2020 |
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Tumeric Barrel with an "ॐ" (Om) pattern |
Extra-firm |
Aparjita Incense |
June 2020 |
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Purple Barrel and Three-sided White and Golden Yellow Imprint inspired by the Suffrage flag |
Firm |
"Inalienable" Yellow Rose Pin |
August 2020 |
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Neon Red and Neon Blue variants |
Soft |
Vol. 6 "Support Local" Pin Set |
December 2020 |
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Illustrated design inspired by This Land’s “ribbon of highway,” “endless skyway” and “golden valley” |
Balanced |
Woody Guthrie Archives Postcards |
March 2021 |
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Halftone design inspired by the earliest comic books. |
Firm |
Mike Hawthrone Comic Print |
June 2021 |
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Black and yellow stripe inspired by his iconic look. |
Extra-firm |
Bruce Lee Core Symbol Patch and Sticker |
September 2021 |
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Six designs each inspired by Corita's Rainbow Swash |
Soft |
Corita Kent frame viewfinder |
December 2021 |
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Copper barrel with a copper ferrule |
Firm |
Burlap bag with coffee-inspired screenprint |
March 2022 |
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Grey and blue stripes formulated using the Fibonacci sequence. |
Balanced |
Golden Ratio viewfinder |
June 2022 |
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Interlaced image that forms a picket-fence animation of Wile E. Coyote |
Balanced |
DIY Zoetrope analog animation device |
September 2022 |
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Blackwing 192 |
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The color prism design with a Lennon-McCartney lyric stamped on each pencil. |
Extra-Firm |
Lennon-McCartney Lyrics Greeting Card |
December 2022 |
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Raised polyhedron design inspired by gaming dice |
Firm |
Blackwing D20 Dice |
March 2023 |
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Wrapped design featuring one of Basquiat's iconic skull paintings |
Soft |
Vol. 57 Replacement Erasers |
June 2023 |
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Earth-toned color palette: olive green finish |
Balanced |
Plant ID Tags |
September 2023 |
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Art’s role in bringing about change. |
Cracked Glow-in-the-Dark design |
2X Firm |
"Art Creates Change" Print |
December 2023 |
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"Curves and Lines" by Jerry Garcia |
Soft |
Custom Blackwing Dunlop Adamas Guitar Pick |
March 2024 |
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Golden Gate Bridge's International Orange |
Firm |
Illustrated Blackwing Postcard |
June 2024 |
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Perforated boards in a mid-century palette |
Extra-firm |
Frank Lloyd Wright colored pencil collection sticker |
September 2024 |