Originally published at: The Pencil Sharpener Museum | Boing Boing
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I was given these cheap HF mini planes from a friend who is all too familiar with my hand plane obsession. So cute and tiny! It is now my favorite pencil sharpener. Besides all my other purpose build pencil sharpeners.
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The old wall hanger found in many a grade and high school back in the day never clogged.
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My favourite portable sharpener
https://www.kum.net/en/automatic-as-2-2/
Simple desk-bound rotary
Award for stupidly expensive, no-I-don’t-know-if-it-is-any-good goes to
Intriguing, but too much potential for personal damage with my record
But pastel pencils require a scalpel with a fresh 10a blade and supervision.
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Don’t you know how much better a scalpel is?
But seriously, I don’t sharpen many pencils these days and I always have a scalpel in my pocket and a knife on my belt.
I still have one of the hand cranked schoolroom sharpeners in the workshop.
My favourite handheld sharpener is the Faber-Castell flying saucer that my wife gave me. About 4cm dia.
That Caran d’Ache peeler doesn’t look as if it offers any advantages over an OLFA snap-off utility knife or a Swiss Army knife, although it might suit some people more than others.
The Høvel is a small brass block plane, which got me thinking. I had never tried my little palm plane like this one for pencil sharpening, but it did a good job, from Lee Valley Tools for about half the price of the Høvel.
Lee Valley also sells this cute miniature ebony-and-brass block plane for $32.90CDN, which should work.
No one so far has mentioned the good old sandpaper block, which is what we used in drafting class.
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