Giant Wooden Pencil

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It’s easier to sharpen a high volume of pencils with a crank sharpener, however there is still some manual work involved to turn the crank.

Making sure the pencil and sharpener are inline – not at an angle – will ensure the cleanest possible sharpening. Read below to see a comparison of all our sharpeners and it should help you find the perfect sharpener for you.While your standard two hole manual sharpener can do a fantastic job, there’s a whole world of other sharpeners to try.

Are you just sharpening the occasional pencil or are you an avid pencil user that goes through them at an alarming rate? If you have any questions about our sharpeners, or picking a sharpener just let us know in the comments and we’ll be happy to help. If you would like to know more about these brands then check out our Ultimate Guide to Wooden Pencil Brands where we go into detail about the 20 biggest pencil brands and their pencils. If you work with these materials you’ll probably find that most standard sharpeners are too harsh and will break their soft lead.As you can see it is three of the world’s biggest pencil brands that keep battling it out for the pencil world records.

My expertise is not just rooted in business, but in the genuine appreciation and understanding of the art of writing instruments.These basic sharpeners are usually made from metal, plastic or wood and are likely to be the types of sharpeners you might have first enountered at school. If there are any indications that your sharpener is dulling, most artists just choose to dipose of the old sharpener and replace with a new one. The Derwent Pastel Pencil Sharpener is perfect for artists working with pastel, charcoal or other soft pencils. The world’s largest coloring pencil is located in the UK at the Derwent Pencil Museum which opened in 1981.

If all this talk of giant pencils has whetted your appetite to have your very own giant pencil then fear not all is not lost. You can also mount most of our models onto a desk, giving them a bit more stability during sharpening. Coloured pencils contain waxes and oils that will gunk up blades much quicker than graphite, pastel and charcoal. One hole works like a standard sharpener, while the second removes just the wood and the third sharpens just the lead.Aside from our sharpening accessories, these groups of sharpeners will work using either a single blade or helical sharpening mechanism.