Never have a dull moment with a solid pencil sharpener. A classic option is a manual one with an old-school hand crank—once a staple of classrooms and art studios everywhere. While many people may opt ...

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As many of you have heard me mention before, my wife is an elementary school teacher. Budgets being what they are in teaching these days, the best pencil sharpeners she ever saw in her classroom were ...

Anyone who has spent time in a classroom or office has used a pencil sharpener.Older generations will remember the sharpener that required the use of a hand crank to shave off thin slices of wood ...

Hand-cranked pencil sharpeners work just fine, and maybe that is what makes them a perfect object to get the heavy duty treatment. And if a nitro pencil sharpener wasn't enough for you, YouTuber Giaco ...

So when we heard that political cartoonist David Rees would be at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn on February 13th offering tutorials on “artisanal pencil sharpening,” we thought it was a brilliant ...