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I am actually a few lessons ahead but I am so behind on posting.
this is not one of my best but I gave it my all.
It took 40 minutes, and I used a HB, 2B, and a 4B pencil. Please critique.
A have a friend who rung me today really upset and almost in tears because the work relationship between her and her boss is a nightmare.
She's only been with this very small company for 5 months but is finding her manager VERY VERY difficult to work with. Rules are not consistant, no thank you-s, sniggering behind her back and in general its just a small, tight horrible bunch of people to work with that make her job very unpleasant.
Good management can be hard to find and when you have a great manager it makes the world of difference. I always remind myself of this when dealing with my staff.
My sharpener and pencils are an analogy for a great partnership....
My Project365 photo, DAY 203, 15th Nov 07
Found these workmen sharpening a scissor using a grinding wheel.The tool they are using is an antique one.
This is belt driven and requires two people to operate.One using the belt to spin the grinding wheel and the other one sharpening the scissor .
There is a variation of this which uses a pedal to drive/spin the grinding stone and this requires only one person to operate the equipment.
This post is in response to a recent post by Daniel ( www.flickr.com/photos/dancrissco/7951846032/in/photostream )
This is the latest pencil sharpener I bought. I got it on a childrens flea market. If you sharpen a pencil (or alternatively use the key that comes with the robot), you are winding it up and afterwards he is walking.
"The Obama administration announced Tuesday that it would allow individuals to travel to Cuba for “people to people” educational trips..."
This image doesn't really mean anything. Or maybe it does? I just happened to have some shots of my Cuban cigar box, with colored pencils and a plastic airplane pencil sharpener in it.
Searching on Google, there are lots of cigars for sale from the Cuban vintage crop of 1959. How can this be? Is this a joke?
I've had the box for decades.
I think I've had the pencil sharpener for 35 years. It features a Phillips-head screw, and was made in Hong Kong.
Just messing around with GIMP. I need the practice...
**This was included as a gift with the June 2018 issue of Japan's Ciao magazine.
Ciao Magazine - June 2018 "Gashapon Machine Pencil Sharpener" includes: 7 mini animal erasers (Japan)
Even prettier in person. Seen here with my 10-year-old Space Pen, a General's Kimberlin 9xxB and my favorite brass sharpener. www.pragmatik.org/blog
For this photograph, see full photo and details showing Adding Machine, Comptometer, and Calendar and Man at Desk (above).
So I was shopping with my bf and while he was buying boy things I wandered away and found these die cast metal pencil sharpeners I’ve been seeing online for like $15+. I looked at the price and hey, it was $5 for each thing so I got both the telephone and sewing machine as the other things were a weird train thingy and a bell.
I dunno if the phone is oversized though and the sewing machine is a bit undersized but I think they’d work as background pieces especially for my vintage dolls lol.
But yeah the sewing machine’s wheel actually turns and the needle moves up and down so yeah lol.
Pencil sharpener in the shape of a car, marked 'Germany'. I'm not sure about the age of this, but it could be pre-Second World War.
This is a small item, overall length approx. 44mm.
I have another larger car pencil sharpener, probably a bit later production, which has the sharpener fixed in the removable top – in this one it's fixed to the main casting, and the tin top should hold the shavings. This is a link to that one: www.flickr.com/photos/adrianz-toyz/52265727732
I spent a couple hours over the course of a few days to completely organize the utility room and my tools as much as possible. To the extent of sorting every individual screw, and hanging all my tools on the wall so I never forget where they are.
The bottom is my favorite part - a swath of unused wall that would never ever serve any purpose. Now it does. It's also nice when I still have the original packaging for things I rarely use, like my desoldering iron and crescent/basin wrench. (If I find random things, I use smaller nails, since they're less permanent -- like the extra lint traps we accidentally bought.)
(See note.) I also hung up the vice that I made myself (poured the metal into a cast and everything) in 7th grade in Industrial Arts (shop). And then I ended up finally using it for it's intended purpose for the first time in 22 years, simply because of a combination of factors: 1) I now knew where all my tools were, and 2) Using wood glue, and not realizing you had to clamp what you glued, I was given the chance to wonder, "How do I clamp this?" Voila!
Kwik Seal caulk, box cutters, clamps, desoldering iron, glue, hex wrenches, hot glue gun, light bulbs, lint traps, litter box, mineral spirits, notebook, outlet tester, paint brushes, pliers, putty knife, rubber wrench, sharpener, soldering iron, spackle, staple gun, tacks, wire brush.
utility room, Clint and Carolyn's house, Alexandria, Virginia.
November 21, 2008.
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I met Moriah today. She was such a sport. It was freezing out at the park, but she kept offering to do more shots.
I got on one of those moods tonight while editing. I started playing with the Nik filters and some selective color.
Find her on Model Mayhem #2919199
...on my desk. I have some with bright white backgrounds, but I preferred this one when I was deciding on what to upload - its perhaps not as surgical as the others.
Small EDC collection of Kershaw,SOG, Benchmade, Buck, Microtech. The first three were sharpened on my Wicked Edge Precision Sharpener, you can tell by the perfectly even mirror polished bevel.
11sec Exposure
I was arranging store displays the other day and suddenly realized we had been selling these different versions of Boston sharpeners over the years. They are all out of stock now, what's remaining in store are now for display only. Except for Dulton's sharpener (second from the left in this picture) which we only have a few pieces left. According to Dulton in Japan, they also stop producing this mechanical sharpener too.
Boston Pencil Sharpener Company was founded in 1899, acquired by Hunt Manufacturing Company in 1925, X-Acto bought Hunt's Boston sharpener line, Elmer's bought X-Acto. Today if you want to get a relatively low priced, metal, hand-cranked planetary Boston style sharpener, you can still get a new one from X-ACTO either in desk or vacuum mount. Although these X-ACTO branded sharpeners have their origins from the original Boston Pencil Sharpener Company, they are now made in China and the charisma is almost all gone.
Some retailers like Blick may still have old stocks of Boston sharpeners but it won't last long, they will soon be eBay items. I would recommend to get one now while you still can. Have money to spare for luxury desk accessories? Try El Caso sharpeners from Spain.
Talking about mount, even though Dulton's sharpener is strong like a brick, the butterfly screw mount is its weakest point, you can't sharpen a pencil without holding the body. Perhaps that's the reason why Dulton is discontinuing it. It could be such a great product if it were vacuum mounted for desk use.
Of these sharpeners, Boston Ranger 55 (the black one in picture) is the most durable, heavy-duty and virtually indestructible, it is like a single piece of metal casted right from the factory furnace. While I like the steadiness of a self feeder, adjustable pencil guide is more like a classic to me.
The death of Boston Pencil Sharpener Company's classic happened slowly over a hundred year. The sad thing is the disappearing of its name which once touched so many people's life especially in America. Elmer's should immortalize the Boston brand instead of burying it's dignity in its ever growing brand list. Worse, check out the "Visit Site" link of Boston under Elmer's web site, you will be directed to www.bostonschoolpro.com/, an under-construction site with several pop up windows of Chinese online game advertisements. I feel so sorry about this and I've emailed to Elmer's a moment ago for this.
If you are into the history of mechanical sharpeners, Early Office Museum has great coverage and collection of photos for sharpeners dated as early as 1860.
More on Scription blog: moleskine.vox.com/library/post/death-of-a-brand---boston-...
We’re Here! - Mechanical Abstraction
The theme was an abstraction!
On viewing ant-o-rama's beautiful photo all weekend chores were ignored for the childhood pencil sharpener search. It was a used sharpener Dad had brought home many moons ago. I fell into the office equipment history rabbit hole and learned it was build in 1959.
It still works too!
Jake Brunott sharpens figure skates for amateur and professional skaters alike. His busy shop in Thornhill services not only club skaters but also Olympic athletes. One of his clients , Spain's Javier Fernandes, a European champion, was the flag bearer for Spain at the Sochi opening ceremonies. His father, Rene Brunott, who started the business, was European Dance Champion (with Hennie Grifhorst) in 1947!
Jake has sharpened my speedskates for years. For more pictures visit:
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Give me a box of coloured pencils, and for a whole afternoon you won't hear or see me.
Always been like that, lol, oh that and a book.
Here I had a lot of fun.
Hope you do too.
With love to you and thank you for ALL your faves and comments! M, (* _ *)
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Small pencil sharpeners, approx. 44mm. The two gold ones are marked 'Germany', the green one with Mintex Halo BBA pressed into the top is marked 'Foreign' but they are almost certainly from the same source. The one on the left has several differences, doors and radiator being the most obvious, so the casting was reworked or replaced at some point.
A great way of sharpening those pins & needles! For a wee tutorial, click here: listentothebirdssing.blogspot.com/p/tutorials.html