Sharpeners advice
I have an electric sharpener, bought years ago to sharpen the childrens' pencils, since sharpening eleventy thousand million billion of the things every hour was making my hands ache. It's not bad, not the best, but does the job. Jakar, if anyone's interested. AC operated, since I read almost everywhere that battery sharpeners aren't up to the job.
Anyway, despite it being a quick and easy way to sharpen the things, there's no way on Earth I'd let it loose on my drawing pencils. Not that it chews them up, but oh my, the long point!
I only ever use pencils for drawing and the long point this produces - and favoured by many here for writing - really give me the heebie jeebies. I much prefer the regular point produced by a manual sharpener but, as I'm sure you know, many of those are hot trash. I had a few really good fairly inexpensive ones for years, but time and use means they went dull eventually, and replacement blades were hard to come by.
After a long and disappointing search I ended up with one of those Trio tub things by Faber Castell. Does exactly what I want, has a blunter cone for coloured pencils and generally works a treat.
So far, so good but...
Is there an electric out there that will do a similar job without breaking the bank? I'm retired and have limited means, so I really can't afford, nor justify splashing out on a super duper expensive piece of kit.
