I love writing by hand and especially in pencil. I am a late adopter of Blackwing but puzzled by the design of the eraser - so much appears inaccessible within the ferrule. Am I missing something?
Very much enjoying reading your posts, so much delicious language.
Thank you so much for you lovely words, Consuelo! Same here – I love writing by hand and in pencil.
And same here about the eraser too! It always seems like it should be possible just to raise it up, but then of course it doesn't stay there under the pressure of the erasing. Now I'm thinking about it more, perhaps it is a design flaw turned into a sales tactic to get us to buy replacement erasers (which I have done in the past) even though there is at least fifty per cent of the original eraser still remaining.
A good project for a product designer to get working on/fixing!
I love writing by hand and especially in pencil. I am a late adopter of Blackwing but puzzled by the design of the eraser - so much appears inaccessible within the ferrule. Am I missing something?
Very much enjoying reading your posts, so much delicious language.
Thank you so much for you lovely words, Consuelo! Same here – I love writing by hand and in pencil.
And same here about the eraser too! It always seems like it should be possible just to raise it up, but then of course it doesn't stay there under the pressure of the erasing. Now I'm thinking about it more, perhaps it is a design flaw turned into a sales tactic to get us to buy replacement erasers (which I have done in the past) even though there is at least fifty per cent of the original eraser still remaining.
A good project for a product designer to get working on/fixing!