A Picture Is Worth A Thousand Words

[J T]

Amazing. Which one of you guys is that?

JOAT Democratic justice. One man, one rock.

[Morris Dovey]

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|| Amazing. Which one of you guys is that?

Not me (mine has a laser interferometer for precision point angle tuning)

;-)

-- Morris Dovey DeSoto Solar DeSoto, Iowa USA

[Bill in Detroit]

I usually chuck mine in the drill motor then walk over to the bench grinder for that 'variable angle cone' everyone was talking about last year.

I still think that $300 is a bit much for a pencil sharpener, so I've adapted mine to sharpen pens, too.

Bill

[Andy]

You think I'd settle for a RYOBI drill to sharpen my pencils?!? Andy

[Joe]

That's just silly, you really need to do it this way.

[DonkeyHody]

You mean everybody doesn't do it that way??

DonkeyHody "The cheapest things in life are free."

[George]

I use a 1.5 HP ($599) pencil sharpener myself. The disk on my 12/48 JET sander. Allows me a flat lead on a round pencil. SWMBO mentioned it seemed overkill the other day when she saw me use it.

Anybody else notice that cedar and even bass have gone to some sort of composite crap around the ersatz lead, or is it just me?

[RayV]

I'm pretty sure that Dixon Ticonderoga still uses real wood.

[FoggyTown]

Well, it DOES look a little less awkward than the axe I use.

FoggyTown

[Dave Jackson]

WARNING! I'd steer clear of any drill operated sharpener that does not have a means of dust collection. These things can cover your shop with shavings in short order. I made my own complete with a 4" dust port, no more piles of pencil shavings all over MY shop. Although I do have to keep a firm grip of the pencil. ;) --dave

I choose Polesoft Lockspam to fight spam, and you?

[Edwin Pawlowski]

You make a good point, but don't stop there.

Motorized pencil sharpeners injure tens of thousands of people every year. With my new PENCIL STOP, it will in milliseconds, stop the sharpener and dull the point. Only $199.00 for the #2 pencil, but adapters are available for #1 and #3 pencils.

[Mark Jerde]

How about this one for the shop computer.

-- Mark

[B A R R Y]

For those too cheap to buy the "Pencil Stop", I can provide an injury-proof non-toxic "SAFETY CRAYON."

$9.99, delivered!

Available in several designer colors, including:

Caution Yellow Attention! Red Calm Blue Relaxing Green Emotionless Black

Order today!

[Andrew Barss]

Joe wrote: :>

: That's just silly, you really need to do it this way.

:

you can mount it to this, keeping it handy at all times:

-- Andy Barss

[Nova]

What are you going to use to test it? ;-)

[Nova]

What, they don't let you have pencils at work either?

[Locutus]

How do you sharpen the crayon?

[jo4hn]

I could have used that "office missile launcher" shown at the top of the page. Wonder how much that is... Great first strike capability...

mahalo, patton

[Puckdropper]

"Locutus" wrote in news:12muh5j56ru2s70 @corp.supernews.com:

That's the beauty of crayons, they're self sharpening! No nasty dangerous cutting tools to injure yourself upon, if you need a finer line, you just rotate the crayon a little! Safe enough a kid could use it!

Puckdropper

[Mike Richardson]

Ooo, now I am interested. Do you have any demo movies you could post with a hot dog test? Or mebbe it needs to be a cheerio rather than hot dog. (Umm Aussie for little hot dogs..)