Reinventing the Pencil Sharpener [video]

The embedded advertisement at the end was most enjoyable (a first for me)

That's the most steam punk sharpener I've seen. Looks like one of those obviously too expensive items people put on their fancy desks.

Shut up and take my money!

amazing to watch this! one idea, like japanese swordsmen, how about not pushing the blade straigt but in a angle, or in a curve? i mean sideways also. will give much finer and stronger cut the tested this 2 times in mythbusters and still could not figure it out, just tried to swing the sword in pure simple rotating movement, which isn't anything you see swirdmasters do

The part where he's testing the blade motion and you see the bandages on his fingers I found a bit… disturbing.

"How to Sharpen Pencils" (2012 article about David Rees)

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/how-to-sharp...

Another take on the subject https://youtu.be/wh8ij9NnLIQ (Stuff Made Here)

Such a weird way of flexing "I have workshop worth hundreds thousands of pounds and have all the time I need for vanity projects".