My little plastic pencil sharpen is dull. I am taking the little blade out to hone. How much micro-bevel is recommened?
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My little plastic pencil sharpen is dull. I am taking the little blade out to hone. How much micro-bevel is recommened?
You could do what Paul Sellers does and use a chisel.
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Or you could do as Rob Cosman has done in several episodes of his online video hand tool workshop and use a readily available hand plane to put a chisel tip on the pencil. In one episode, when that handy plane happened to be a L-N #8, he commented jokingly that it was his $475 pencil sharpener!!
One can never have too many planes and chisels... or so I'm learning!!
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I think IBC has A2 Cryo replacement blades for your pencil sharpener. They are 50% thicker. I think theyre around 60 bucks.
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I'm holding out for Rob's PM-V11 version. Should be right behind the chisels in the roll out.
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I bought a DUX brass pencil sharpener back in the 1970s. It gets a lot of use. I also bought a replacement blade at the time. It hasn't needed it. The replacement went into another sharpener.My little plastic pencil sharpen is dull. I am taking the little blade out to hone. How much micro-bevel is recommened?
I did sharpen the blade once, without a micro bevel. Amazingly enough, in the past, people were able to get work done and sharpen pencils without a micro bevel.
jtk
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And he will probably offer a video too, to show the proper technique...
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Maybe next years miniature from Lee Valley will be a tiny MKII honing jig so we can get that consistent microbevel . . .
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Depends on the lead hardness...Originally Posted by Jerry Thompson
My little plastic pencil sharpen is dull. I am taking the little blade out to hone. How much micro-bevel is recommened?
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I'd re-bed the thing for a york pitch.
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This one doesn't seem to require a micro bevel http://www.leevalley.com/US/wood/pag...=1,42936,42452
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Sweet!!!
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Where are you getting pencils made out of wood that needs york pitch?
Maybe there should be a proper bevel down pencil sharpener, so we can just move the chipbreaker closer.
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OMG - this is a great question.
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If you are going to go bevel up, make sure the bed of the sharpener holds the blade flat.
Paul
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