David Rees thinks he knows how to sharpen pencils. He says people have entrusted 1,500 pencil points to his sharpening business. I know a little something about working with sharp pencils, and let ...

Here's how to sharpen and a lip pencil without a sharpener. I love a creamy, soft, buttery lip pencil that lasts all night. As coveted a formulation as that sounds, ...

Even then, while electric pencil sharpeners were around and used by large offices, this type of sharpener didn’t become widely available to the public until the 1940s. And the rest, as they say ...

"How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening" (Melville House, $19.95), by David Rees, is not your average book about pencil sharpening ...

Kim, who on average fixes 15 sharpeners a day, said he is now a master at the job. “Fixing a pencil sharpener isn’t rocket science, but I’ve mastered the skill so thoroughly that I can tell ...

I *wish* I had a pencil sharpener to rig up as a hand drill at times like that. He only had a bare assortment of tools, but still got the job done – kudos to him! Report comment.

Once coupled to a pencil sharpener that clearly isn’t engineered to work at a bazillion RPM and jury-rigging a damper for the clutch, [Mike] fires up the engine and races through a pack of 10 ...

While there are a variety of sharpeners on the market ranging from $20 to $1,000, ... What to Consider in a Knife Sharpener Types of Knife Sharpening Tools. Benchtop Tools.