The Shop Tip Of The Year

[crokett]

Credit where credit is due, here's the Woodnet thread if you are a member:

http://www.forums.woodnet.net/ubbthr...=&fpart=1&vc=1

[cabinetman]

Who woulda thunk? That's a stroke of genius...or a stroke of something.
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[eezlock]

shop tip of the year?

What is next with that one ? a robot to hold the pencil in the sharpener?
Somebody has a lot of time to waste on nothing, but useless stuff it seems!
eezlock

[LarryG]

Somebody has a lot of time to waste on nothing, but useless stuff it seems!

If you read the entire thread (or the relevant portions, anyway) you'll see that this is for real ... that he has a legitimate need to sharpen a HUGE number of pencils at times, and this was the best/fastest means. Viewed in that light, it's actually darned clever.

[Mrs. Wallnut]

I found that picture and the thinking of the person who planned that to be quite good. Sounds like its saves his arm from getting tired if he has to sharpen a lot of pencils. And knowing how tempermental our electric sharpener is and that sometimes it doesn't work right and those kinds of sharpeners are great.

[DUD]

Looks good to Me. Bill

[poolhound]

What about my flat carpenters pencils, they dont fit in a round hole. Am I going to have to keep sharpening by hand. Oh yes and I dont have a lathe either so thats a double challenge

[jackellis]

The inventor's name is Rube Goldberg...

[LCHIEN]

What about my flat carpenters pencils, they dont fit in a round hole. Am I going to have to keep sharpening by hand. Oh yes and I dont have a lathe either so thats a double challenge

Disk sander works wonders on those.

[crokett]

Lowes sells a pencil sharpener for carpenters' pencils. Small plastic gizmo. I suppose you could chuck it on a lathe but you'd need a speed controller.

[jussi]

If you read the entire thread (or the relevant portions, anyway) you'll see that this is for real ... that he has a legitimate need to sharpen a HUGE number of pencils at times, and this was the best/fastest means. Viewed in that light, it's actually darned clever.

As posted by one of the woodneters... Don't they make electric ones?

[crokett]

He says later in the Woodnet thread that his wife tried the electric and it could not keep up.

[LCHIEN]

He says later in the Woodnet thread that his wife tried the electric and it could not keep up.

uh, if the electric could not keep up, then I can't believe the illustrated solution would work for long without adding a 4" dust collection port to the bottom of that sharpener. Yeah, that would be my addition to the design!

so, what was his application - SAT test proctor in a center for unprepared high school kids?