OK, so by clicking on the title of this post, you are already aware that this is going to be a stupid question (yes, they do exist).
I've had the same old battery powered pencil sharpener in my shop for over a decade now. It has put a nice long and sharp point on my Ticonderoga #2's every time I asked it to… until last week. Ol' faithful gave out on me as I was sharpening up the box of dull pencils I keep on the bench. I bought a new one off amazon for about $10 and the thing was crap. Didn't actually put a sharp point on the lead. So I stopped by a hobby lobby and grabbed another thinking that a fancy artsy one would work… but it doesn't have enough torque to actually cut the wood.
Anyone have a lead on an electric sharpener that puts a long tapered point on a pencil?
Before you try and talk me into using some mechanical, refillable, lead extruding contraption, I actually enjoy my Ticonderoga #2 pencils. I have a box of sharp unused pencils in the bench well that I reach for and a box for dull ones when they start to dull. Once the dull box fills up, they all get sharpened and go back to the sharp box. It is a simple system and I am a simple (read: stubborn) man and I don't want to change!
I've had the same old battery powered pencil sharpener in my shop for over a decade now. It has put a nice long and sharp point on my Ticonderoga #2's every time I asked it to… until last week. Ol' faithful gave out on me as I was sharpening up the box of dull pencils I keep on the bench. I bought a new one off amazon for about $10 and the thing was crap. Didn't actually put a sharp point on the lead. So I stopped by a hobby lobby and grabbed another thinking that a fancy artsy one would work… but it doesn't have enough torque to actually cut the wood.
Anyone have a lead on an electric sharpener that puts a long tapered point on a pencil?
Before you try and talk me into using some mechanical, refillable, lead extruding contraption, I actually enjoy my Ticonderoga #2 pencils. I have a box of sharp unused pencils in the bench well that I reach for and a box for dull ones when they start to dull. Once the dull box fills up, they all get sharpened and go back to the sharp box. It is a simple system and I am a simple (read: stubborn) man and I don't want to change!