Jul 23, 2008

Vintage Pencil Sharpeners

Old office supplies are the best.
Back in the day, stuff was made from hardwood and steel. These pencil sharpeners are many, many years older than me yet they still work better than any mamby-pamby, battery-powered electric ones they make today do. With a little elbow grease you could grind a new pencil down to a sharp nub in under 30 seconds. No classroom or art studio should be without one of these. Plus, once you get three variations of a similar thing happening you call it a collection and let the hoarding begin!




I especially love how there are variable hole sizes, in case of the rare instance when you need to sharpen one of those extra thick pencils.

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