The Best Pencil Ever Made

there is a pencil that is considered the. perfect pencil and we've got one let's. talk about. [Music]. that good mythical morning now you don't. have to be into pencils to be into this. episode to be into this show but if you. are this is this is it for you this is. this is going to be the Pinnacle of good. morning ever but we're going to talk. about the perfect pencil you've done. some research am I right here why do I.

care I I think the reason why I care. just to set it off right off top of the. bat is that I like to know the best of. everything and I might not I might not. be the guy who owns the best of. everything there's certainly people like. that you know who I'm talking about I. don't know who I'm talking about you. know people have to have the best of. everything oh I got the I don't just use. pencils I use the best pencil if you're. one of those people. purists this is it for you I wear silk. underwear cuz I'm a purist this is The.

Pinacle for. you okay A little history here this the. pencil that is considered the best. pencil ever is the Blackwing 602 this. thing was introduced in the 1930s by a. guy named Eberhart Faber and it came. with a slogan half the pressure twice. the speed apparently it was the perfect. graphite you didn't have to press that. hard and it was move it was smooth and. all of a sudden sudden they became super. popular amongst all of these. screenwriters and play wres and people. uh they were kind of.

mindblowing but also animators right cuz. I'm thinking people people use keyboards. now they screenr on keyboards and things. like that even now it seems compelling. to me that people who handdraw animation. and stuff like that and like do the. penciling thing you mean like the. animator for Snow White in the Seven. Dwarves the original his name was. Sheamus Kain and he was buried with a. black wien 602 in his hand that was his. request he loved this pencil so much not. making this up okay so what makes it so. great first of all it was different at. the time it came out all pencils were.

yellow and it was black woo that's. awesome but it also had a removable. Square eraser that was slightly wider. than the pencil so the pencil would not. roll and you could also that's smart. replace the Eraser perfectly because it. fits in there with this nice little. holster um but the graphite was what. everybody loved it just had this amazing. feel and texture now it was softer this. thing has been used by all kinds of. people Stephen uh sonheim who wrote this. new music the composer Sweeney Todd.

Westside Story into the woods the. animator Chuck Jones from Looney Tunes. Tom and Jerry Dr Seuss Quincy Jones the. producer Truman capot the writer TV so. Quincy Jones is sitting there producing. Thriller and he's like got this black. pencil in his hand he's like he insists. upon it yeah I'm going make notes on the. on Thriller maybe this is what's going. to compel me to start using pencils. again becoming one of those guys who has. a laptop in front of him but I'm I'm. writing on a pencil and paper well yeah. I think it could happen we're on the. verge of that well let me tell you okay.

so they discontinued this thing in the. 90s you can still get them on eBay that. guy was buried with all of them it's. like 50 to 100 bucks just for a one. pencil now but the $50 to $100 for an. original the copyright ran out and then. California Cedar and pencils.com. bought the copyright and reproduced the. black wi 602 reintroduced it as the. Palamino Blackwing 602 a pencil that we. have here that's still pretty pricey I. think you get a dozen for 20 bucks but.

it it closely approximates the original. one and people are raving about this and. saying that this is as close as you can. get when you write with an original and. you're right with this one there's lot. of people who can't even tell the. difference now here's what we have done. we have designed a test where we can. experiment with this said pencil and. find out if it is as. magnanimous as um everyone claims that. it is okay so each of us have drawn two. pictures one with the Palamino black wi. 6 two and one with this girly pencil.

with a flower. eraser and the first thing I'm going to. I'm going to show you one of my pictures. I want you to guess which pencil I drew. it with and then I want you to just. critique my art because I feel really. good about this okay I even signed my. name on it mine's kind of a PSA message. for. children hey kids don't pet fans what it. this. morbid I showed this to my kids and I. said see kids what do what do you learn. from this and they were like daddy wow.

shepher said Daddy you're a great. drawler drawler you drawled it out I was. like I know son okay so I I need to see. the other one before I can uh figure out. which one you did with the black Wing. okay okay so here pretty much the exact. same thing no a few there's a few. differences notice just look closely. Shephard my 5-year-old picked up on. these differences very quickly these. these fingers are already cut off on. this he already stuck his other hand he. this is like really kids don't pet the. fan look you've already lost all the. fing on one hand and now you're losing.

every finger including the thumb on this. hand oh see that now you can only draw a. removable thumb with a black Wing I. think but I I now having worked with. both of these and knowing that this. girly pencil is kind of it's very hard. compared to the softness of the superior. Black Wing. um I think this is the Black Wing here. no yes this is the Black Wing here with.

the thumb missing correct yeah cuz I. mean you just get a there's just more D. dynamic range to the uh pencil but what. do you think about my drawing it's. pretty awesome is it his hair grew. longer from the time you drew this one I. love the way the Palamino Black Wing 602. felt I was just like oh I'm really going. to fill this hair I'm going to give him. a Sideburn and yeah really get in there. with it now um I think this should be. framed and thrown. away all right well let me see what you. did okay now uh let's see let me show. you which let me show you the right one.

first. here okay here we go I call it robot. versus dolphin I asked my kids kids what. should I draw and um they said well you. should draw a robot playing tennis with. a dolphin I was like really what should. they be playing tennis with and they. said an ear which is weird because just. there's a body part that has been taken. off of your piece of art that I knew. nothing about and then there's a body. part that's been severed in mine too.

weird it's a weird connection knowing. nothing about what you were drawing you. have an ear flying through your picture. and I have fingers flying it's crazy no. what if his ear don't listen to The Fan. kids would been mine's not mine's not a. PSA oh I noticed that the dolphin has a. buzz. cut he also has legs with flippers on. him that my friend is not a. dolphin that is an accident of nature I. noticed that the robot has butt cheeks.

which is pretty much the only thing that. matters about the robot you have a. person officiating the match and they're. sweating no look closer oh they're. bleeding you didn't cover in you didn't. cover you color in the the drops to make. it blood oh really yeah you I can do. that why is he bleeding though cuz they. playing tennis with his ear but he's. still officiating you didn't think that. was cool this is more demented than mine. well this what my kids told me dra so. here's the other version oh my goodness. oh my my.

goodness what is up with your dolphin's. butt I I I'm not good on proportions. that's the most obscene thing I've ever. seen well when I drew the butt for the. robot I thought you know what when I Dre. I Need a dolphin butt too I need a. dolphin butt but uh well you got one the. robot also has a Cod piece you're re. there's there's some you got some issues. man my kids liked it my kids were like. wow dad I didn't know you were such a. good drawer and they didn't say draw.

both of these look very Middle School. different perspectives of the same event. so I could show the butt of the dolphin. okay so what's the conclusion what's the. conclusion about the uh which one do you. think I drew with which oh this one is. definitely the uh the Black Wing yeah. that's right n day I'm familiar with the. black wi at this point but but you know. the interesting thing is I almost feel. like uh the ones without the Black Wing. look better because because they're. they're lighter and they've got more. opportuni well black it's not an artist. pencil right I mean it's a.

but animators use them so is this the. best pencil ever I I think is is is the. question but there's like there's. pencils but there's whole pencils that. animators use right like a whole. range I think that it is an incredible. pencil I think that it feels great it. was much more fun and relaxing to to to. draw with a Palamino I'm bringing pencil. back because of this but it's. interesting that maybe just because we. don't know how to draw I feel like our. ones without uh the Palamino looked. better just you you know my opinion I.

know how to draw according to my kids. I'm a good drawer and you're a good draw. mhm you know what time it is I'm Carly. from Toronto Ontario it's time to spin. the wheel of mythicality okay uh you. know we should we should uh frame these. up and we should uh send them out or. something just just a space we can send. them to Mars with a high C we could. attach them to like a carrier pigeon and. see where they end. up a love letter to. muffins we got pencils we can write oh. you really want to draw on the back of.

your okay dear muffins you're just so. fluffy I love your. tops and how it just hangs over the. perfect. amount um it reminds me of my. body after I've. eaten uh I want to see some drawings on. the community we're going to pick the. best one that's submitted to the. community and then we're going to pick. the best two the best one of my.

approximation gets my photo and the best. one of yours gets your photo it's not a. photo it's a picture actually.