After years of searching, I found my genuine desire: an all-metal, manual pencil sharpener. I have destroyed numerous cheap plastic imitations that adhered to a flat surface with a suction cup and burned out countless electric pencil sharpeners.
Mock me if you will, but I sneer at mechanical pencils that gouge the paper and snap off the lead with the slightest pressure. Alone, I am the last person on this planet who uses #2 pencils.
I have found my Precious. Leave me content in my cave while I scribble out riddles on cheap pads of yellow paper.
I totally agree! I have an antique sharpener which has been around as long as I can remember. It is part metal and part plastic, but back then they made things to last, and it has outlasted many electric sharpeners. It is screwed onto a green beast storage cabinet.
ReplyDeleteNow that I know where they exist, I will likely buy one.
ReplyDeleteI wish there was one that would work on my carpentry pencils.
The Rosebud of sharpeners
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