pencil sharpener

created by Ila

(thing) by nutate (3.3 mon) (print)

Wed Mar 21 2001 at 4:14:44

In my experience there are three types of pencil sharpeners, excluding a sharp knife:

the razor blade attached at an angle from a hole little ones that you rotate yourself described by mollusk.
the standard wall or suction mount ones that have a crank that attaches (via gears) to a cylindrical screw type mechanism with sharpened screwishnesses that attack the to be sharpened pencil
the electric ones that eat up pencils like bugs bunny on a carrot binge.

I hope this list of pencil sharpeners will enlight and bemuse those new to the subject... Does anyone recall standing in line to use the sharpener in grade school?

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