Blackwing Pencils and Alembic

[mica]

It's no secret I love pencils! Actually pens, paper, and all sorts of stationery supplies. I've known the owner at Blackwing for a while, and they reached out when they did their newest limited edition of Jerry Garcia pencils. There's a little write-up on their website here:
https://blog.blackwing602.com/a-conversation-with-alembic-legendary-custom-guitar-shop/
When we had the fires race through norther Santa Rosa in 2017, Blackwing asked me to identify the schools that were impacted by the fires and they donated tons of pencils for when the schools reopened.

Mom's favorite of the Blackwings is the Pearl and I'm a fan of the 602.

[Quasar1]

FAB Mica, Thank you 

[StephenR]

Cool story and article Mica.  Especially nice to hear about the pencil donations, so many companies take but never give back!

[DistillaMatto]

Great story, thank you.

[David Houck]

Nicely done Mica!

[rv_bass]

Nice story, and nice zebrawood bass in the photo

[dannobasso]

‘‘Twas lovely hearing your voice again. Great job and of course some nice tidbits of information.

[jazzyvee]

Just listened to the whole interview. It was really interesting and filled a number of blanks in my understanding of the company.

[edwardofhuncote]

I enjoyed, and forwarded it to a couple folks who I thought would also be interested.

[jazzyvee]

Me too.

[bigredbass]

The REAL story needs to be accurately told more widely and more often.  Ron and Susan are every bit as groundbreakingly important as Leo Fender, Lloyd Loar, Les Paul, Neve, etc.  The history and contributions they made are giant.

JW

[sonicus]

Exemplary on all aspects .

[edwin]

Thanks to Mica, my lovely wife, Dawn, created another way to experience pencil love: https://www.dshperfumes.com/shop/no-2-pencil-shavings/