pencil sharpener?

[Ned Bulken]

what kind do you prefer? My vote goes for a classic 'Boston' manual unit.

[Bill Lewis]

Ned, do a search on SMC and you'll find a rather interesting thread regarding this topic.

The Boston handcranks are still very good, I have a power Boston that does an excellant job, but in a quick pinch I still fall back to a knife.

[Don Baer]

here ya go Ned. Here is the thread that Bill may have been refering to.

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?t=24892&highlight=Pencil+Sharpener

:D

[Mark Pruitt]

I like my small battery powered Boston. I can carry it all around the shop, wherever I'm working. And it's dirt cheap to boot.

[Ned Bulken]

struggling not to burst out laughing at that other thread.:rolleyes: :D :p OH MY! $7000 pencil sharpener? :eek:correction $13,000+ ?!?!!!!!

[Cliff Rohrabacher]

razor knife. Why buy a tool I gotta walk across the room to use when the knife in my holster is perfect.

[tod evans]

i keep an electric one mounted to each of my mitersaws..02 tod

38751

[Steve Clardy]

boston manual

[Ian Barley]

Sandpaper (I'm gonna write sandpaper twice 'cos vbulletin thinks that the word "sandpaper" is too short to be an adequate response to a post, it doesn't matter how long I have to make the post - I still just use sandpaper to sharpen my pencils.)

[Fred Voorhees]

Ditto on the electric Boston sharpener in my shop.

[Andy Hoyt]

http://www.wontonway.com/inventions/sharpener.html

[Rick Doyle]

battery powered sharpener from staples! i originally thought the batteries would wear out quickly but they're still going strong after 2 years.

[Joe Pelonio]

Here at the shop it's an old Boston electric. At home when I'm working with wood projects I hate to go inside so I usually use a utility knife
and/or sandpaper. I always end up stepping on it or breaking the tip
while marking the wood so before I start I'll make sure to have 3-4
pencils ready.

[Kelly Anderson]

I decided that I wanted a regular old pencil sharpener for the shop and could not believe it when I could not find one anywhere. All I could find were the little ones or electric ones. I got lucky though during remodeling at work and got one that was left behind.

[Jim Dunn]

Classic Boston here.

[Jim Becker]

Classic Boston here, too...the two school teachers who owned this place before us conveniently already had it located in my shop! Not bad...a few hundred grand for a great pencil sharpener!! :D :D :D

[Steve Clardy]

http://www.wontonway.com/inventions/sharpener.html




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[Mark Pruitt]

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Just for fun, I once chucked a pencil into a Jacobs chuck and spun it on the lathe while holding a manual pencil sharpener to it, but I believe this one outscores everything I've seen. LOL!

[rick fulton]

ProSharp™ Chuckable Pencil Sharpener

http://www.chhanson.com/catalog/prosharp.html