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“Oh, no, I spilled shavings!”
Thus shouted my daughter this morning, while she over-did-it with the sharpener I brought her from my way home via the art shop a few days ago, a gummy-bear KUM unit. Kids make messes. Yesterday, it...
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Jack and a Sharpener Give-Away.
This is Jack, Comrade Dan’s son, sharpening a USA Gold pencil with their house’s Classroom Friendly Sharpener. Jack is here to announce another give-away of a Classroom Friendly sharpener from Comrade...
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Review of Helix Pencil Top Sharpener Combo.
I found these at Office Depot during back-to-school shopping season. They cost $0.99 for a pack of two with one yellow pencil. I figured these were certainly worth a chance, and I am happy I bought...
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Review of KUM Tip-Top Pop Pencil Cap & Sharpener.
That’s a mouthful, but this is a tool that, as my brother Tom might say, “gets ‘er done.” This is, in short, a very inexpensive version of The Perfect Pencil. This baby leaves your pencil Perfectly...
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Review of Sonic Ratchetta Sharpener.
Apologies for the lapse in posts these past few days, and many thanks for those who sent well wishes. Today, we have the Ratchetta sharpener, sent to us for free from the fine folks at Jet Pens. Sonic...
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Harpers Ferry Sharpener.
(Please excuse the bad phone picture.) My Dad and I took a daytrip to Harpers Ferry the day after Thanksgiving (we always sort of go on a retreat). In the Harpers Ferry Historical Association‘s...
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Cool, Blue Sun-Star Pencil Gear, Part II.
Sun-Star Sect Cylindrical Multi Pencil Sharpener The sharpener is a cool little device. A dial clicks into five positions, giving you, in effect, five point options, from needle-sharp to pretty blunt....
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Review of Sun-Star Safety Pencil Knife.
We received one of these Pencil Knives free of charge from Jet Pens a few weeks ago at HQ for reviewing. I have used this little knife for a while and have probably taken it to inappropriate places in...
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Review of KUM Special Diameter Sharpener.
Our friends at Jet Pens sent this in the early summer, and it somehow got left in the “drafts” folder. Summer vacation is officially over as of this morning, and it’s time to finally finish this...
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Review of Staedtler’s THE PENCIL, 1 of 2.
Now this is a piece of Pencil Beauty, and I hope I do it justice. A week after we received Primo Neon Wopexen at HQ, we received The Pencil. That is that name for Staedtler’s relatively new luxury...
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A Halloween Sharpener.
Let’s play “Find the Halloween pencil sharpener!” Jetpens sent over a package to HQ today which included this cool little ghost sharpener. To be honest, I’ve eyed this up for years, though I assumed...
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KUM Masterpiece Instructions.
While the KUM Masterpiece is a fine piece of engineering and one of the pieces of Pencil Ephemera about which I have been the most excited lately, there is something missing that I hope we can add to...
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Popular Purple: The New Classroom Friendly Sharpener.
Sometimes review samples come to HQ that make waves. The mountain books from Word. were such a package, as most of the books disappeared in a few days. Last week, we received a package from Classroom...
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New Blackwing Metal Sharpener.
Blackwing has been all over the online pencil discussions lately, even more than usual. Last week, they unveiled a new metal sharpener and also three new plastic 2-step sharpeners (I haven’t bought...
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The Use and Abuse of Electric Pencil Sharpeners.
This sharpener sits atop my tiny secretary desk, next to the radio I use to listen to NPR. This fall, I did what I said I would never do. I bought an electric pencil sharpener and started using it...
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