New Product Update

We are pleased to inform you that the new Palomino Blackwing will officially be available for purchase exclusively at Pencils.com on Friday, October 1st. If you are a registered user/customer at Pencils.com you will be receiving the first of our new Monthly Newsletters early that morning with a direct link to the Palomino Blackwing store items on our site. (note: If you have previously opted out of our e-mail notifications from this list then you will not receive the e-mail Newsletter. Effective Friday, the Palomino Blackwing pencils will also be easily found under both Palomino and Blackwing brand names within the Store Shop by Brand option. We thank you for your patience as we’ve worked to accelerate availability of this product over the past few weeks versus our original plans. For more information about the development of this product and reviews from other blogs visit our Blackwing Coming Soon page for relevant links.

We also have several additional pencils and related drawing supplies scheduled for launch on Pencils.com in the coming month or two. So here’s a brief update on what else is coming your way.

First up, as October is National Breast Cancer Awareness Month we are introducing two new motivational pencils with the slogans “Knock out Breast Cancer” and “Erase Breast Cancer”. These will be available in a 12 count pack (6 each slogan) or in Bulk quantities (144 pencils per slogan) and are ideal for any needs you may have in your own local community Breast Cancer awareness projects this year. Pencils.com will be donating a portion of the proceeds from these pencils to Breast Cancer research as well as participating in a local Breast Cancer awareness event donating significant quantities of pencils to Thunder Goes Pink V in our home community of Stockton, CA. We are proud to help the cause and maybe, one pencil at a time, we can help find a cure for Breast Cancer. These will be available for purchase beginning Monday October 4th.

We are also adding a new specialty carpenter pencil sharpener selection courtesy of General’s. This unique sharpener provides a quick and easy means of producing a uniform flat and square point similar to sharpening with a knife along each of the pencil’s four edges.

By mid-October we will be adding several new ‘Green’ products. Green Apple is an Earth friendly brand that offers quality natural finish cedar pencils made from all natural and/or recycled and reclaimed materials. We will initially be adding a 10-count ergonomic triangular #2 pencils made from finger-jointed reclaimed wood as well as their 4-count Jumbo Highlighter dry text pencils. Our first text liner pencil we’ll offer on the site. At the same time we’ll be adding a range of Banana Paper notebooks and sketchbooks, which are environmentally friendly tree-free, acid-free, natural paper and paper products. The paper used in these products is made from 80% post-consumer waste fiber and 20% banana leaf fibers.

Finally, coming toward the end of November we will be expanding further our Palomino orange graphite pencil selection with addition of 4B and 6B grades. These offer a super smooth and extra rich and dark texture to extend from our current 2B limit in Palomino as well as the new Palomino Blackwing pencil.

This is just the beginning of a growing mix of pencils and brands we’ll be offering on Pencils.com as we progress towards the holiday season and on into the New Year. Stay tuned for more details on each product as they are made available in the coming months.