Does this guy use a jnat?film?coticule?

[oakeshott]

Click through on your own. I add no commentary to this besides the following:

He'd fit right in here on B&B.

http://www.artisanalpencilsharpening.com/index.html

oake

 

[Obiwan]

"the standard to which all future pencil-sharpening textbooks must now aspire." (New Yorker)

 

[life2short1971]

He has a video...http://youtu.be/spMaP-_Cq_8

 

[global_dev]

Shavings are bagged and returned with your pencil.

holy ****, 35 bucks

 

[Kentos]

I wonder how he ships his pencils so they don't blunt in transit. Unless he makes a cover for each one maintaining the point is impossible.

 

[life2short1971]

He puts rubber tubing on the sharpened end and then puts the pencil in a plastic tube. He has it all down. lol I watched about 20 minutes of his youtube videos. He is actually quite interesting.

 

[Kentos]

He puts rubber tubing on the sharpened end and then puts the pencil in a plastic tube. He has it all down. lol I watched about 20 minutes of his youtube videos. He is actually quite interesting.

I was being facetious lol. So either this guy is a genius or he really does take it seriously.

I'll watch he clip later.

 

[life2short1971]

I was being facetious lol. So either this guy is a genius or he really does take it seriously.

I'll watch he clip later.

Sorry.....

 

[Disburden]

This guy was actually on the cbs sunday morning show last month.

 

[jeness]

35$ for sharpening a pencil? Human stupidity fascinates me every time.

 

[Kentos]

I think buying this guy's pencil is like buying a piece of smashed watermelon from Gallagher.

 

[Doc226]

I hope he uses anything but rocks, he has NO MoJo.

Who pays $35 to sharpen a pencil?

 

[Disburden]

I'm just jealous I didn't think of it myself.

 

[Kentos]

I'm just jealous I didn't think of it myself.

Professional nose digging?

 

[cleanshaved]

and only $1000 to set yourself up with a full kit to sharpen pencils. Based on that he is under charging

 

[oakeshott]

All this mockery suggests that while the members here appreciate the fine distinctions of honing a razor (honenoscenti?), their delicacy of discernment doesn't extend to the craftsmanship required for a truly superb pencil point. You callous creatures scoff, but what of the millions of kids whose lives lay in ruin because of poorly filled in circles on their SATs?

Shame on you. Shame, shame, shame.

 

[Obiwan]

Lol

 

[Mike H]

I really wanted one of his pencils, but I spent my disposable income joining the Flat Earth Society.

 

[Monsieur Blaireau]

He'd fit right in here on B&B.

oake

I think I can vouch for that. He's my neighbor and, at least on Facebook, my friend. Since the book deal, I don't know where things stand with us anymore. Mister bigshot just got too cool for school and doesn't always "have time" to "return calls."

For months I have been trying, so far unsuccessfully, to get him into wet shaving. Initially he expressed interest, but again, in such a busy life, who has time? Which is of course ironic, in that sharpening pencils the old fashioned way just drips with the same impulse as drives people to old school shaving: a means of swimming against the tide of our overwhelming, consumerist culture's dictates in search of whatever small slice remains in which to find authentic experience. Mojo, if you will.

Not to put too fine a point on it, but I think the corollary between pencil sharpening and this thing of ours is ineluctable and profound. Consider John Hodgman's observation, from the book's introduction: "while a pencil is about accepting that there is error in life, a freshly sharpened pencil is about starting over, and never ceasing to hope for - and work for - the perfect point. While that perfection may never be attained, it is cowardly not to try."

Seriously, I recommend this book to all.

 

[jeness]

It is funny to pay someone to sharpen a pencil, when the point he puts on it, will disappear in about 2 minutes of constant writing, and a few minutes later you will have to resharpen it yourself, or it won't write as nice as you would like to. This is only good for someone who doesn't want to use the pencil, and wants to put it on the wall or something for show. Even that would be ridiculous in my view, but I am not a pencil freak.

The price is only icing on the cake imo for a few minutes of work