Artisanal pencil shop opens in Lower Manhattan

Do they also offer artisanal pencil sharpening?

It does look like they offer an impressive array of pencil sharpeners in the online store.

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The problem, I would thing, is the lack of a stream of new offerings.
There just aren’t that many new pencils being offered- especially if they’re limiting themselves to woodclinched (which they appear to be).
There’d have to be enough people interesting in coming that a visit once or twice a year was sufficient AND they’d still have to worry about per-transaction numbers- you’d be looking at each customer spending comparatively little per transaction.
Don’t get me wrong- I like pencils. But this seems like a tenuous business plan.

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$500 for a pencil sharpener?!?!

Am I even located on the same planet as this store? Because I got a major case of the WTFs going on right now.

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True, it could be that the small number of high-value “collector” pencils like the Blackwing 602 do enough business to make up for the fact that most people are going to come in and spend a couple of bucks.

Or it could be that the whole enterprise is just the non-profit hobby of a bored, rich millennial spending a relatively small portion her parents’ money.

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My very first impulse was snide cynicism…

Then the illustrator side who’s totally enthralled and finicky with her pencils completely bowled that over.

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Could one… Make their own pencils?

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Pencil lead/graphite from alibaba…

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Wood blanks, ready for turning.

http://www.woodturningz.com/Wood_Pen_Blanks.html

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@IronEdithKidd

It’s a satirical video.

According to the Amazon reviews, that model of sharpener is highly recommended. (“I gave it one crank and my pencil was sharp enough to stab through an apple with ease. I tried two cranks and ended up hospitalising my sister. After three cranks the pencil itself began to radiate light…”)

It was (mostly) a satirical post. :slight_smile: But the $500 pencil sharpener in the online store of this shop appears to be real.

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I went to the shop’s website. I didn’t look at any videos, I looked at the available stock of pencil sharpeners for sale.

[edit] @nonentity: I :heart: Amazon reviews. :wink:

Maybe they could do a side business of providing pencil ASMR ?

I’m all about the clutch-pencil, me.
Pure genius.

I’m gonna open up an artisanal shop selling artisanal shops.

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What kind of crazy meta hipster are you?

#META!!!

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A tattoo of a pencil seems wrong somehow. Unless she did it with graphite instead of ink.

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\m/ ( `◉ _◉´) \m/

You left off the ‘L’.
Actually, I know a guy with a metal hip. Would that make him a metal hipster?

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this is why the terrorists hate us.
there’s a hipster girl in lower manhattan with a pencil tattoo and her own pencil store.

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