Thread: Couldn"t find the pencil sharpener

Not another sharpening thread?

You put a six sided pencil in a four jaw chuck.... What were you thinking?

Lucky it didn't fly out & hit you.

Well the lathe will be harder to miss place than a pencil sharpener.
Regards

Battery drill & a bit of sandpaper would have worked.

Originally Posted by A Duke

Well the lathe will be harder to miss place than a pencil sharpener.
Regards

I nearly set fire to my workbench with mine. (The sharpener, not the lathe)
It was in the bottom of a plastic cup with all the pencils & I tossed a spare 9V battery in there. (So I knew where it was)

Anyway, the blade of the sharpener shorted across the battery terminal & the plastic got hot & it all started to melt & smoke.
Couple of different sorts of plastic, wooden pencils, wooden work bench... could have been a disaster.

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

I nearly set fire to my workbench with mine. (The sharpener, not the lathe)
It was in the bottom of a plastic cup with all the pencils & I tossed a spare 9V battery in there. (So I knew where it was)

Anyway, the blade of the sharpener shorted across the battery terminal & the plastic got hot & it all started to melt & smoke.
Couple of different sorts of plastic, wooden pencils, wooden work bench... could have been a disaster.

Imagen the fireries trying to sort that out after your shed burnt down. Your insurance company would have had a field day trying not to pay out.
Regards

Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers

Battery drill & a bit of sandpaper would have worked.

Stanley knife.

Originally Posted by dabbler

Stanley knife.

Pfft! Amateur.

Originally Posted by dabbler

Stanley knife.

Originally Posted by tea lady

Pfft! Amateur.

Not if you stick the stanley knife to yer angle grinder with duct tape it isn't.

Originally Posted by tea lady

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sharppencil.jpg

I thought you did not like purple?

bench grinder for me
cheers smiife

Originally Posted by Christos

I thought you did not like purple?

It means no one is stealing my pencil. Still lose it though.

Dad's definition of a sharp chisel was sharp enough to sharpen your pencil with. He didn't have a lathe though.

Look at it again.

That pencil is nowhere near sharp!

Sharpening a pencil on your average lathe is a very complex issue.

First, we have to define "sharp" and probably "pencil". We can possibly accept "lathe" to mean lathe, but then again...

When my great grandfather taught me to sharpen pencils, he always said "Pencil sharpening is an art, not a science, therefore, we must believe in the pencil". He was an idiot.

Personally, I would start with perhaps a 60 grit paper and proceed through about 35 stages to a 1500 grit paper before going on to wet sanding with micromesh pads and then some plastic polish and prehaps Brasso or Kitten #2 to finish. Then again, you could buy buy a pencil sharpener.

That would be nofun at all.