New video: 6 unusual pencil sharpeners (Patreon)

Published:

2023-10-11 17:55:18

Imported:

2026-06

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I've been keeping a list of weird pencil sharpening ideas for several years so I finally decided to build the coolest ones! This was a lot of fun and a neat way to make a variety of mechanisms grounded in a problem that everyone understands.

Your support enables me to make things like this, so thank you! :) There were a lot of challenges and things that didn't make it into the video so I'll be doing a patron only directors commentary livestream in the next week or so to expound on them. I'll post the details as soon as I nail down the time.

Hope you enjoy it!

- Shane

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Six pencil sharpeners that would get you expelled

Head to https://brilliant.org/StuffMadeHere/ to start your free 30-day trial, and the first 200 people get 20% off an annual premium subscription! Create a FREE Onshape account at: https://Onshape.pro/StuffMadeHere and get the free design files for the Pantolathe: https://tinyurl.com/pantolathe I hope you find this to be a neat example of different ways to solve the same problem.