Vintage small 'Mickey Mouse' pencil sharpener holding a lovely garden daisy flower for you!

'Happy Weekend' greetings everyone.

Love & Peace! 💖

Wow. Made me feel like I have thrown out a lot that would have fit with the theme. Somewhere in a box is my slide rule from college, but my dad had a grand old wooden one, long lost in the family. However, I remembered something that I still use and decided it fit the theme. I purchased this manual Boston Champion pencil sharpener when I was in high school. It has traveled with me since, to college, med school, Cuba, San Diego, Virginia, Chicago, Maryland, and finally here in Pasadena. It works fine -- you remember, insert the pencil and let the clutch grip it and then just turn the crank. The sound and feel told you when the pencil was nice and sharp. Anyway, some memories while I did the photography and polished the image -- it seemed fitting to make it black and white, too. Hope you enjoy -- HMM!

Looking close... on Friday! theme : Pencil Sharpener

Thank you everyone for your visits, faves, and kind comments

2nd attempt - redone in Lightroom 6 and Nik Sharpener Pro 3

The blue version for Macro Mondays

Pasadena, California

For the group "Macro Mondays" with the theme "Rhymes with 'stone'".

I know it is an easy rhyme. I pondered many different things, but this tiny old fashioned telephone won out.

It is really a pencil sharpener, but made with such fine detail I was always fascinated with it. So, here it is, sort of pretending to be a real phone... except for that pesky pencil!

HMM everyone.

Macro Mondays theme: Stationery

Well used pencil sharpener.

HMM

Bleistift Spitzer

....and not for manicure ....

For Looking close... on Friday!" - theme : "Office Supplies".

The scissor sharperners traveled almost all over Europe with their 25 - 30 kg heavy equipment, first on foot and later by bicycle.

For Looking close on Friday’s theme “pencil sharpener”. I hope all have a fabulous Friday!

Deep in the perpetually damp basement of an old industrial building, a heavy, cast-iron control valve has spent decades regulating the flow of tepid water. The air is thick with the smell of mildew and the faint, metallic tang of rust as the nearby pipes drip foul water when the wheel is turned and the water pressure increases.

Ok, never mind, I just made all that up. This is actually a very dark black and white photo a 2.5 inch (6 cm), die-cast pencil sharpener photographed under a rusty, old steel pedestrian bridge. You put the pencil in the bottom, turn the wheel to sharpen and the shaving come up the chute shown in front.

Developed with Darktable 4.8.0.

Conversion: Color calibration= gray, Input R = +1.0

Pencil sharpener handle

For MACRO MONDAYS, this week’s theme: Member's Choice - "Musical Instruments".

A vintage piano pencil sharpener (5cm x 5cm x 6cm High) with custom music note bokeh (time to play with Christms lights ;))

The custom bokeh: cut out a music note symbol (~1 cm on the longest ) in the centre of a thick paper that could cover the lens, fix the paper in front of the lens.

The setup: Mount camera with a 100mm, F/2.8 Macro on a tripod, about 30cm away from the piano pencil sharpener. Hang some miniature Christmas lights about 4.5 meters away in the background.

Camera settings: Manual mode, f/4, ISO100 at 13 seconds, manual focus in very low light condition, only shined a LED flashlight on the piano at different times and directions.

Have fun and HMM !!!

♥ Thank you very much for your visits, faves, and kind comments ♥

My pencil sharpener, some staples and a couple of paperclips.

Having Wi-Fi problems, will do my best.

Better viewed large and thank you for your favourites. :O)

... well done

This little pink pencil sharpener was demonstrating it's formidable bite, it's just a one bite .... but a Mega one bite, more than a match for the flimsy 16 MB ..... Oh dear' let's hope it survives those big nasty teeth .... that's my everyday chip! 😂📷

Happy Macro Monday everyone!

Love & Peace.

Looking close on Friday theme: Pencil Sharpener

Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊

Sharpener Extraordinaire ...

Pic in my Industrialscape Album

Pic taken 28 Nov 2025

Thanks for your views, faves, invites and comments ...

#MacroMondays #IntendedContact

Colors {Pink 14/52}

The pencil sharpener is in the base so you have to turn it over to sharpen a pencil. The wheel actually turns but does not do anything.

Motion blur for MM. Another one of my pencil sharpener collectibles. Size: 1,96 x 1,1 and 2,7 inches in height

165/366,

T. Ford, die-cast,

1917,

No. 211,

Garden Village, Burnaby, British Columbia

Box 7.5 x 5.5 x 4.5 cm

sharpener

Depth of field with focus stacking

GROUP: LOOKING CLOSE ... ON FRIDAY

THEME: PENCIL SHARPENER

I bought this pencil sharpener for this Theme because of it's shape. Unfortunately, it didn't sharpen as good as the one that would have been much cheaper!

SORRY FOR THE BAD REVIEW!

It was about time to join MM again. I had some lack of inspiration lately but quickly came up with the pencil sharpener for this week's theme.

Flickr Friday theme: Point

Thanks to everyone who took the time to view, comment, and fave my photo. It’s really appreciated. 😊

The device was worn on the back.

This weeks Macro Mondays entry for the theme of 'on a coin'.

Looking close on Friday theme: Pencil Points