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Giant Wooden Pencil

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For canister sharpeners the only other maintainance will be making sure that you empty the removable bin regularly. Read below to see a comparison of all our sharpeners and it should help you find the perfect sharpener for you.

Other artists, especially prolific pencil users, may prefer to save time and use an electric sharpening machine. After all, pencils can be expensive and you don’t want a poor sharpener to chew up the wood and damage the leads. The Faber-Castell Grip 2001 and Jakar Trio sharpeners each have a hole for standard pencils, one for jumbo pencils and a third hole for colouring pencils– which are usually slightly thicker in diameter than a standard pencil but not quite jumbo sized. The world’s largest coloring pencil is located in the UK at the Derwent Pencil Museum which opened in 1981.If you work with these materials you’ll probably find that most standard sharpeners are too harsh and will break their soft lead. With manual sharpener it’s pretty easy to locate and get rid of any shards of lead or wood trapped in the blade. In the photo, you can see Count Anton Wolfgang von Faber-Castell with a giant triangular shaped Faber-Castell Grip 2001 pencil.

It may not be a world record holder but the folks at Casey Illinois are certainly proud of their giant size pencil. You can also mount most of our models onto a desk, giving them a bit more stability during sharpening. Their star attraction the giant yellow coloring pencil was made by the Derwent Pencil factory for the museum in 2oo1. Some brands of clutch pencils include an inbuilt sharpener – this lead pointer is great for those that don’t. If all this talk of giant pencils has whetted your appetite to have your very own giant pencil then fear not all is not lost.

Some crank sharpeners also include a tool to adjust the length of the point on your pencil – so you can choose anything from a super sharp, long point to a short, more blunt point. Are you just sharpening the occasional pencil or are you an avid pencil user that goes through them at an alarming rate? If there are any indications that your sharpener is dulling, most artists just choose to dipose of the old sharpener and replace with a new one. Our range of sharpeners can be split broadly into four categories: simple manual sharpeners, reservoir sharpeners, crank sharpeners, electric sharpeners and other sharpening accessories.

If you would like to know more about these brands then check out our Ultimate Guide to Wooden Pencil Brands where we go into detail about the 20 biggest pencil brands and their pencils. There’s a more complex mechanism in a helical sharpener, so they can be a bit more difficult to maintain.

These basic sharpeners are usually made from metal, plastic or wood and are likely to be the types of sharpeners you might have first enountered at school. In 2002 a giant version of the Faber-Castell 9000 pencil set the record for the world’s largest pencil. Our other sharpening tools include sharpeners and accessories suitable for non-standard pencils or specialist sharpening techniques. It’s so easy to just toss your sharpener back in a drawer or pencil case, many artists forget that their blades can get gunked up and dull. If you’re using larger or smaller than standard pencils you might need to get a sharpener with a different size hole.

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