I grew up with the one on the right, and taught with the one on the left. The wall-crank one was better: it takes any size pencil, even the fat red ones, it's quieter, and it gives you a nice long break over by the coat closet rather than <5 seconds up front at the teacher's desk.
They have the look of something from the early 20th century. That's how I always imagined them, as if my classroom had previously been a one-room schoolhouse.
If the one on the right is the same one we had at home when I was a kid, there should be a lever on the opposite side that pulls up the center of a soft plastic rubber-like piece to act as the world's most useless suction cup.
15 Comments
item09@lemm.ee · 51 pts · 2y
I really wish vintage didn’t apply to things from my childhood. But here we are.
0110010001100010@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Yeah, I absolutely grew up with that one on the left...
ccunning@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
I think I bought the one on the left at some point in my life.
Thankfully the one on the right looks like it pre-dates the ones we used in elementary school…
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
The one on the right looks fancier than the ones we had in elementary school
swayevenly@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
They were manual sharpners that had this handle you would spin clockwise.
item09@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 2y
Definitely those were in every classroom when I was little, but my dad had one of these bad boys at home, I remember the weird ears things on top.https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/de84e279-3106-42b0-b17c-fe61283e73fb.webp
Maybe that upload didn’t work? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5u-TAdbgVIw/TT7gIPo5ppI/AAAAAAAAAac/TYnIyahumvk/s1600/DSCN5578.JPG
mipadaitu@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I would just feed pencils into it until they were tiny stubs.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
That's a risk you run when making a fun pencil sharpener...
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
I grew up with the one on the right, and taught with the one on the left. The wall-crank one was better: it takes any size pencil, even the fat red ones, it's quieter, and it gives you a nice long break over by the coat closet rather than <5 seconds up front at the teacher's desk.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
The one on the right was in my 70s classrooms. Money says they were the same units from when mom went there.
pooberbee@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
They have the look of something from the early 20th century. That's how I always imagined them, as if my classroom had previously been a one-room schoolhouse.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net · 8 pts · 2y
Hahaha funny funny but this can't be vintage - I actually had one of th
GoTeamBoobies@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
If I had those sharpeners... Then am I vintage? 😳
SplashJackson@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
Don't put your finger, or anyone else's, in one
thefartographer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y
If the one on the right is the same one we had at home when I was a kid, there should be a lever on the opposite side that pulls up the center of a soft plastic rubber-like piece to act as the world's most useless suction cup.