{"id":9476,"date":"2023-09-24T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9476"},"modified":"2023-10-21T13:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T20:33:12","slug":"the-technological-development-of-pencil-sharpeners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9476","title":{"rendered":"The technological development of &#8211; Pencil Sharpeners"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Who knew something as simple as pencil sharpeners had such a long history. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theawesomer\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@theawesomer\">The Awesomer<\/a> put together this little collection of old-school pencil sharpeners from the late 1800&#8217;s to early 1900&#8217;s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent&#038;listType=playlist&#038;list=PLMP4As9S_wsqL5_ELaBXkbSIs0KAcCKmP\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Or if you want, go for one of these over-engineered modern ones:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/__H0ysmN4b8?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I can assure you that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007P50ONQ\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B007P50ONQ\/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1\">Palomino Kum Point Pencil Sharpener<\/a> is pretty awesome (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kum-Automatic-Sharpener-1053021-included\/dp\/B003G560JQ\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=L5FJYTGSZAXT&amp;keywords=Palomino+Kum+Pencil+Sharpener&amp;qid=1695574256&amp;s=office-products&amp;sprefix=palomino+kum+pencil+sharpener%2Coffice-products%2C135&amp;sr=1-2\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Kum-Automatic-Sharpener-1053021-included\/dp\/B003G560JQ\/ref=sr_1_2?crid=L5FJYTGSZAXT&amp;keywords=Palomino+Kum+Pencil+Sharpener&amp;qid=1695574256&amp;s=office-products&amp;sprefix=palomino+kum+pencil+sharpener%2Coffice-products%2C135&amp;sr=1-2\">newer model here<\/a>, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1053121-Sharpener-sharpens-blades-pointers\/dp\/B002C2UV0I\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L5FJYTGSZAXT&amp;keywords=Palomino+Kum+Pencil+Sharpener&amp;qid=1695574256&amp;s=office-products&amp;sprefix=palomino+kum+pencil+sharpener%2Coffice-products%2C135&amp;sr=1-1\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/1053121-Sharpener-sharpens-blades-pointers\/dp\/B002C2UV0I\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L5FJYTGSZAXT&amp;keywords=Palomino+Kum+Pencil+Sharpener&amp;qid=1695574256&amp;s=office-products&amp;sprefix=palomino+kum+pencil+sharpener%2Coffice-products%2C135&amp;sr=1-1\">one with the tip sharpener here<\/a>).  I use it all the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can also check out this video by the ridiculously good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@StuffMadeHere\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@StuffMadeHere\">Stuff Made Here<\/a> in which he creates some of the most ridiculous pencil sharpeners he can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wh8ij9NnLIQ?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who knew something as simple as pencil sharpeners had such a long history. The Awesomer put together this little collection of old-school pencil sharpeners from the late 1800&#8217;s to early 1900&#8217;s. Or if you want, go for one of these over-engineered modern ones: I can assure you that the Palomino Kum Point Pencil Sharpener is pretty awesome (newer model here, and the one with the tip sharpener here). I use it all the time. You can also check out this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=9476\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artdesign","category-cool","category-technical"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-2sQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9725,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}