Drill-Powered Pencil Sharpener
By Sean O'Hara
‘Tis the season for cheap plastic crap. The gimmicky products that surface around holiday time never cease to amaze us. But some of them have a bit of charm — like this drill-powered pencil sharpener.
It works like any other handheld pencil sharpener, but on its backside it sports a 1/4″ shaft that connects to any 3/8” or 1/2” drill. Once connected you have a 2700 RPM (more or less, depending on drill speed) handheld pencil sharpener. We wonder how many seconds it takes to go from pencil to dust pile.
Street pricing starts at $6.
Drill Powered Pencil Sharpener [Lee Valley]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
December 18th, 2007 at 11:59 am
Does not do carpenters pencils, nor is there another model to do so.
fail.
December 18th, 2007 at 12:41 pm
The tool is called a “Dowel Pointer.” Chamfered ends make for easier insertion. See here (scroll down page):
http://www.fine-tools.com/bohr5.htm
Hand model here:
http://www.fine-tools.com/duebelherstellung.htm
December 18th, 2007 at 5:22 pm
Get outta here! This device was invented by someone with WAY too much time on his hands, as does anyone who’d buy it, even for just $6.
December 18th, 2007 at 7:24 pm
Where do you get those 2700 rpm drills, I could use a couple
December 18th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
teachers need these. My mom is a teacher and when I was a kid she made me sharpen boxes and boxes of pencils with a non-power sharpener.
December 19th, 2007 at 10:35 am
My tool belt always has a small sharpener in it or I just use my pocket knife.
Seriously, the amount of labor involved to hook this up to sharpen one pencil seems large compared to just sharpening it by hand.