It sounds like something out of a dream! Even then I think I knew that the office boy and his tray of pencils would go the way of the ivory-billed woodpecker. The boy held out his tray of pencils, and you scooped up a quiver of them. And they were nice long ones, too-no stubs. There was an office boy who came around in the morning with a tray of freshly sharpened wooden pencils. In the old days, here at The New Yorker, when your pencil point got dull, you just tossed it aside and picked up a new one. By my calculations, to have my own artisanal pencil sharpener at the office-fifteen dollars per pencil for a minimum of twenty-four sharpenings a day, five days a week-would cost close to two thousand dollars a week. The kind of soft-lead pencil I prefer, such as the Blackwing or a quality No. I would very much like to retain the services of David Rees for my pencil-sharpening needs, but I’m afraid I couldn’t afford him.
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Otherwise, you are better off with an old-fashioned manual pencil sharpener, such as the APSCO Chicago (with Type 2A Cutter Assembly) that my father mounted on the wall in our basement in Cleveland circa 1960, or the industrial-strength Boston Ranger 55 that my predecessor gave me, with the warning “It chews pencils.” I only just noticed that it has a lever on the crank that allows you to choose your desired degree of pointedness (B, M, F). “If you can carve a totem pole with a chainsaw then you can sharpen a pencil with a pocketknife,” Rees writes. 2 pencils: for fifteen dollars, he will hand-sharpen your pencil and return it to you (along with the shavings), its point sheathed in vinyl tubing. And until I read David Rees I didn’t realize why it was that although I, too, relied on an electric pencil sharpener, it left me chronically unsatisfied: you can’t see what’s going on in there.ĭavid Rees specializes in the artisanal sharpening of No. Until I went to the pencil party, I felt very alone, a crank among co-workers who were content to dip their pencil tips in any of the various electric pencil sharpeners on the premises.
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