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The Art of Photography => The Coffee Corner => Topic started by: wolfnowl on June 11, 2014, 03:32:00 pm

Title: The Only Way to Sharpen Pencils
Post by: wolfnowl on June 11, 2014, 03:32:00 pm

Place tongue firmly in cheek, then press play: http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/the_only_way_to_sharpen_pencils_27125.asp

Mike.

Title: Re: The Only Way to Sharpen Pencils
Post by: tom b on June 12, 2014, 03:07:04 am

The video brought back some memories. I taught Technical/Engineering Drawing for 20 years and I've taught hundreds of students how to sharpen a pencil.  Mechanical/Propelling pencils are the best thing since sliced bread.

Cheers,

Title: Re: The Only Way to Sharpen Pencils
Post by: francois on June 12, 2014, 06:25:01 am

A good laugh! It would be interesting to know how many of those sharpening kit orders have been placed.

And, yes, I used to sharpen my pencils with a blade...