How to sharpen pencils : a practical and theoretical treatise on the artisanal craft of pencil sharpening, for writers, artists, contractors, flange turners, anglesmiths, and civil servants, with illustrations showing current practice / David Rees ; with a foreword by John Hodgman.
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TextPublication details: Brooklyn, N.Y. : Melville House, c2012.Description: 218 p. : ill. ; 19 cmISBN: - 1612190405
- 9781612190402
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Main Library | NonFiction | 818.602 R328 | Available | 33111006989996 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Getting the right point on a pencil is really a matter of skill and expertise. Most people need to know how to achieve the perfect pencil point to match the job. Deep in New York's Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Rees - the world's number one #2 pencil sharpener - still practises the age old art of manual pencil sharpening. How To Sharpen Pencils is a book, a manifesto and a fully-illustrated walk-through of the many, many, many ways to sharpen a pencil. Delivered with pencil-sharp wit and hilarity, this is the authoritative guide to a dying art.
Reveals the secrets of manual pencil sharpening in a humorous manifesto.