My latest woodworking tool acquisition.

[Michael Weber]

Does this make me a Neander?

[Jesse Busenitz]

Nice! Where did you find that?

[John A langley]

What's wrong with a pocket knife

[Chris Hachet]

Does this make me a Neander?

Love it!

Chris

[Tom M King]

I have them scattered all about, including one that's set up to clamp onto scaffolding. I even have a couple of replacement cutters. A couple are new Xacto's from Office Max, or one of those places, but the ones I like best are Berol's, and they're the ones I have replacement cutter assemblies for. Those all came off ebay. All not including the little metal one that I can sharpen the blade on that stays in my tool belt, when I wear it.

[John TenEyck]

Does this make me a Neander?

Yes it does.

John

[Justin Ludwig]

Yes it does.

John

I thought neanders sharpened their pencils with a spokeshave?

[Michael Weber]

lol and proud to be one. Jesse, it's new. Was the only reasonably priced manual sharpener I found that didn't get huge amounts of bad reviews. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00006IEI2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

[Kevin Bourque]

I thought neanders sharpened their pencils with a spokeshave?

The hard core neanders use their teeth.

[Jim Becker]

LOL...I have one of those tools in my shop! They work great! I suspect mine originated in one of the local school districts...the previous property owners were both school teachers and it was in the part of the building that my shop moved into when we bought the place.

[Rick Potter]

I'll bet it only sharpens metric pencils.:D

[Gene Takae]

That's a nice one!!! I have found that modern pencils don't take to well to electric sharpeners and manual is the way to go.

[Justin Ludwig]

That's a nice one!!! I have found that modern pencils don't take to well to electric sharpeners and manual is the way to go.

Mechanical .5mm lead pencils for me. A pack lasts me a year.

http://www.staples-3p.com/s7/is/image/Staples/s0110326_sc7?$splssku$

[Andrew Kertesz]

There's just something about turning the handle and hearing those helical gears chewing through the wood and putting a fine point on the graphite...:D

[David Delo]

Sorry but I'm just too damn lazy to turn a crank, I just pull the trigger!

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[Tom Welch]

Michael,
That is so "old School". Literally.

[Peter Quinn]

Nice! I use an exacto hand crank myself in the shop, works better than any of the electrics Ive tried. It helps to buy decent pencils, like ticondaroga cedar #2's or similar. Ive started doing layout with .7mm mechanical pencils at work because the sharpener is so remote to my work station and so lousy I just can't bear it. Perhaps this year I'll break down and buy a hand crank for the work tool box. Your is beautiful. I think neanders use a special hand plane to sharpen their pencils, one that they probably built themselves from hornbeam and brass with a shop made blade filed out of an old worn card scraper.....so no, you're not really a neander with technology that current.

Adding something like this to the shop might give you a shot at the neander title!

[Larry Edgerton]

Those are the best reasonably priced sharpener I have been able to find. I have a half a dozen of them. A couple in the shop, a couple screwed to boards that get screwed to whatever on site, one mounted in my truck and one in my living room.

And, I am certainly no Neander.......

Ticonderoga #2 is my favorite as well, I buy them by the case.

Larry

[Dennis Aspö]

What sharpener is that? I didn't see any mention of the brand.

Edit: Found it, X-Acto Ranger 55.