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Troy from Classroom Friendly Supplies kindly sent a “Classroom Friendly Pencil Sharpener” this way. I’ve previously read reports on the sharpener at Pencil Revolution and Lung Sketching Scrolls. (Alberto really put it through the paces!) Some searching reveals further coverage at Unposted and Little Flower Petals. In terms of modern day desktop sharpeners, there is [...] Here are five pencil accessories. Purchased from JetPens, they are all inexpensive products aimed at children. Four are from Sun-Star, and one from Tombow. The pencil cap with sharpener allows you to keep a sharpener adjacent to your pencil (if you really want to do this): I can’t avoid noting that the plastic starts looking [...] A few ambitious handheld sharpeners attempt to offer multiple options. Here are four. Upper left: Kutsuwa T’GAAL Upper right: Kutsuwa K’ZOOL Lower left: Flute-like sharpener, name unknown Lower right: 5 steps pencil sharpener The T’GAAL mainly moves a backstop, and slightly moves the (large) blade’s angle: The K’ZOOL manipulates the angle of sharpening, a feature [...] New pencil accessories aren’t introduced too often, so I was quite intrigued to learn about the Gripsharp. It resembles one of those rubber ‘ergonomic’ grips that some people prefer for gripping thin writing instruments. You put the pencil in, start sharpening, and leave the Gripsharp in place. Put another way, you sharpen away the wood, [...] Does anyone remember the Dixon Oriole? The official product page calls them a “first-rate commercial grade woodcase pencil offered at an economical price”. Hmmm, “commercial grade”. Well I ordered them online after finding a store that had some older US made stock. Or so I thought. I should have known what was coming – the [...] |
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