r/BlackwingPencils

I've become a fan of the Volumes package designs. The cool themes, graphics, and colors are hard to ignore.

In time I'll call out a favorite. For now, I simply enjoy them for their designs and stories. I will be sketching and writing some as time ticks on.

L to R-

602 Firm Silver

Balanced Soft White

Soft Black

Ultra Firm Wood

140 Culinary

11 Bill Russell

710 Jerry Garcia

2 Light & Dark

574 Native American

292 Haring

Rock Hall Miami Pastels

Rock Hall Black/Red

Animation Red 7

Yellow Fender

Black Calder

Red Calder

Storage Unit is a 7 Elements, 6 Drawer, Wooden Artist Storage Supply Box.

I was a Volumes subscriber from the start and just pulled the first four out of storage: 725 (Dylan at Newport), 211 (John Muir), 1138 (Melies and A Trip to the Moon), and 24 (Steinbeck).

None of the boxes are complete anymore. I have at least six pencils of each, and a pencil or two in some boxes got sharpened once and are still close to full length. I have the sealed archive tubes for 211, 1138, and 24. If 725 came with one, it didn't survive my last move. I still have the boxes and sleeves for all four.

I'm thinking about passing these on to people who will use or appreciate them, and I can't decide how. Since the boxes are already short, part of me thinks one pencil of each volume as a set makes more sense than four partial boxes. Another part of me thinks the boxes should stay together.

For those of you who collect Volumes:

• Would you rather have a set of all four, or a partial box of one volume?
• Do the archive tubes matter much to you?
• Does a pencil that was sharpened once lose most of its appeal, or is it just a user at that point?

I'm not selling anything in this thread. I just want opinions from people who know these better than I do.