Pencil Sharpener

It's over a century old. Supposedly it was stolen from school by my great great grandfather in the early 1900s, and it's been in the family ever since. Weird family heirloom I s'pose, but I inherited it back in April. I think my Zeyde knew I'm the only person in the family who would willingly accept a vintage pencil sharpener as inheritance. Tbh I think he was somewhat just offloading it onto me but I don't mind lol

It's slightly rusted on top but in otherwise very good condition. It works really well apart from two caveats:

1. Because it's mounted to a wooden block which itself isn't mounted to anything, I have to hold it down while sharpening

2. It kinda sorta likes to munch on the pencils

and so sometimes little flakes of wood come off on my hand which is mildly distracting at worst

It's still better than any other sharpener I've used though lol

What's especially nice about it is, Dixon Ticonderoga, my pencil of choice, aren't perfect, and sometimes an entire pack of pencils will refuse to properly sharpen in modern sharpeners. But these rotary sharpeners will gladly sharpen almost any pencil provided it's the right size because instead of rotating the pencil against a single blade, you're basically wedging the pencil between a pair of long, toothed gears that rip the wood off.

Funnily enough I have a modern, much smaller, plastic version of the same kind of sharpener

[DANDADAN MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD]

From chapter 15:

"Instead of salt, he'd throw pepper in the ring before a match."

From chapter 23:

"I mixed up today's forecast with my lunch order, and asked the waiter for a party cloudy day."

From chapter 25:

"They go home sunburned because they put their sunblock on too soon."

From chapter 30.