In answer to this question:

>>Anyone else have an pencil sharpener in the house? Where did you put
it? <<

Yes, we have had an adjustable diameter BOSTON brand sharpener for like 
40 years.  It's in the pantry closet right in the kitchen.  Which is 
where, come to think of it, it was in both my grandparents' houses.

One other tip is from time to time tighten those two screws on the 
outboard (non-handle) side of that sharpener.  It will make a big 
difference in your results.  And if they won't stay in place, consider 
green LOCTITE or a similar product.

Best wishes,

Matt Prusik
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <nicknaylo@a...>
To: <OldTools@r...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 12:27 PM
Subject: Re: [OldTools] marking knives

>
> I keep a Schrade Old Timer in my pocket at all times, though it is 
> making modern life more difficult (I head into state buildings pretty 
> regularly) and the sheeps foot blade is my go to blade for sharpening 
> the kid's pencil at homework time. A dozen or so crappy plastic pencil 
> sharpeners have given up the ghost just since the beginning of third 
> grade, and the family cannot agree on the correct and proper location 
> in the house for the hand cranked Boston pencil sharpener. Don't know 
> what the GIT did with the aluminum Lee Valley belt clip sharpener I 
> gave her.
>
> Anyone else have an pencil sharpener in the house? Where did you put 
> it? For some reason when I was a kid the thing was hung in the 
> basement workshop/laundry room. Personally, the stairwell to the 
> basement calls to me as the perfect place to hang the old Boston,  and 
> said discussions start with scenarios involving hitting heads, 
> shoulders etc on it in the dark stairwell, other locations envision 
> similar household injuries and I give up and sharpen my penknife 
> again.
>
> Sigh......
>
> Michael-San Francisco, lamenting a democratic (small d) household. 
> Dexter #3 Sharpener in the shop, over the bench.
>
>
>
> [mailto:oldtools-bounces@r...] On Behalf Of scott
> grandstaff
> Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:45 AM
> To: porch
> Subject: Re: [OldTools] marking knives
>
>
>> http://rhpwood.wordpress.com/2008/05/20/tools-marking-knives/
>
> Hey Bob
>  Nice knife.
>  If you get tired of trying to explain the blade shape in longer 
> words? Just
> tell 'em it's a sheepsfoot blade.
> I use a sheepsfoot roughly 1/2 the time in everything I do.
>
>   When you can raise up a handle high approaching verticle, a spear 
> point or
> diamond point is a good blade, but when you are dealing with a lower 
> handle
> angle than that to reach in, sheepsfoot does the trick.
>  If you have to go really low angle, hawksbill. Slight downward curve.
>
> They made up names for blade shapes roughly when they invented 
> language
> :-)
>   It's possible to come up with a new blade shape people haven't 
> thought of
> yet, but I never have.
>   Whatever I think up, that I think is new?  I can always go back and 
> look
> at the old charts and, sure enough, it's close enough to one of the
> established shapes to call it that, everytime.
> yours, Scott
>
>
> *******************************
>   Scott Grandstaff
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