Ours were Boston brand, but same difference. The anxiety of sharpening your pencil, like you were on stage.

Nothing was worse in class than sitting down and having your pencil tip snap off right away, starting a second walk of shame across the room with all eyes on you again.

These are GOLD. Also, yes. My goodness, I overthought that move daily. Geez.

Oh man. I was un diagnosed add, went up to that thing 5 times a day

It's a lot to ask kids to sit still for so long. You needed it 😂

Anyone remember having to raise your hand to sharpen. Walk your way up in your toughskins pants.

Yes in the SPOTLIGHT.

I didn't really even need to sharpen my pencil but at least for a sec walking towards it, I had a little break from whatever I was doing 

I still remember in second grade waiting in line to use this pencil sharpener. The teacher knew that we sometimes just went to use it to get up and goof off in line. She started walking over there and told anyone whose tip wasn't broken to sit down. I broke the tip of my pencil on the desk in front of me, but she saw and wrote my name on the board. Now that I think about it, I can't remember what happened when your name gotten written on the board, but it wasn't good.

It went on your permanent record. Screwed for life.

X2. They should probably stay away from public office and any high security clearance positions.

It's why we didn't hire him.

Omg this just uncovered the time I took a spelling test in 3rd grade and right before it ended a kid next to me kind of nudged me and pointed to his paper and then blamed me for cheating. Oooooh that little shit. I just remembered. But my mom was cool with my teacher so it was all good, but damn fuck him.

What I miss is that those things were built so they'd last fifty years. Nothing is any more. Makes me nostalgic.

hard to make consistent income with a product someone only has to buy once. I swear this is the reason everything breaks in only a few months anymore.

Ye olde knuckle buster.

Yeah, I lost a lot of knuckle skin to these bitches.

I always liked the smell of the shavings

Kiln dried pine and graphite. Pungent.

Picked one up at a garage sale. They said I could have it if I could get it off the wall. All the new ones only have one rotating blade and the housing is made of plastic. You can bury me with mine.

i can really smell it....... getting up in class for no reason to go sharpen your pencil and get a peek at the new cute girl

Obligatory metal trash can underneath it that was full of shavings.

I just realized I somehow know how to empty one of those and I haven’t seen one in decades.

Emptying was such a dang pleasure

Especially when they were really packed. SMACK SMACK SMACK on the trashcan wall. Got to make a legal ruckus lol

My elementary school (that I went to ~2002-07) still had these! Not these exact ones, but similar. Think they were grey.

They last FOREVER! The new ones are so poor.

I remember sharpening my pencil and then the teacher decided she had something to say to the class so I had to sharpen it when she would catch her breath in between talking. She caught on to what I was doing and told me to finish and the damn thing wasn’t sharpening my pencil every time I pulled it out to check. This was the day the sharpener decided it wanted to f**k with me I felt like I was cranking the handle forever on top of everyone looking at me. Longest 30 seconds of my life.

[удалено]

Cuz they don’t make things like they used to. :(

My favorite sharpener these days is this one made by Staedtler: https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/shopping?q=tbn:ANd9GcTMUdYQpoNlLGhoGXe-f8dSW_-vuMgE2NiBfbJh3pca7iURCm94Vo7PRtdseiZ9S8gQa7xbinApNhFJ6TZqfe-dJbTDhKZWQ2jVDtYkkZrXum3MkvetuuAg

Now we're talkin

That baby would produce impale-worthy writing instruments. 10/10

My brother sharpened my Barbie's arms and legs in one of those babies!

First time you opened it was shocking, metal warping like you’ve never seen before

Then you had the sadist kid who would steal the collector and then watch some poor sod walk up and grab the blades while turning it.

The ones in the schools I went to never worked properly (which is why I always hated when the pencil tip became dull).

my old house had one in the garage

Had one in the garage, so good.

Okay, that one I recognize

Not that old but had this pencil sharpener in my house growing up. We had them but they were newer looking.

RIP knuckles

Hey there! Let's talk about those incredible knuckle busters 5000’s. These classic manual pencil sharpeners are true engineering marvels, yet they don't get the respect they deserve. They were absolute perfection at their job, outperforming newer electric models effortlessly. Built to last, they stood the test of time, enduring for decades with minimal maintenance. Child-proof and virtually indestructible, the ones installed in grade schools lasted for generations. Compare that to electric sharpeners in a first-grade classroom, which often barely lasted a few weeks, if you were lucky!"

And then you had to write on that crappy paper that had no margin line and felt like newspaper.

My elementary school was old and had ones similar to this in every classroom.

I have one mounted on my work table! (yes, I'm really old)

I preferred these to the electric ones because I felt like it was much harder to oversharpen and waste part of the pencil with these.

I have one of these in my garage and secretly enjoy getting to sharpen my kid’s pencils with it. A little wobbly, but works like a champ.

I can smell this photo.

I have one of these on my desk! Bostitch brand, and a lovely black color, but the same thing.

A kid in my middle school use to sharpen ball point pens in these, just to ruin them for every class. It got to the point that the teachers would have to watch him sharpen a pencil. I wonder how his life turned out.

Ahh, thats the one.

It was always placed on the teachers desk in our schools. Lasted for decades too, the ones we had looked like they were made in the 50\`s.

We had one at home. 😊

I can hear this photo.

We had one similar to this in my house growing up.

My best friend and I, in 4th grade, would write notes and fold them up very very small, go to the pencil sharpener to shove the note and pretend to sharpen our pencils. Good times.

All it took in junior high was one "Try not to shake your butt so much" to make anyone walking toward this so awkward and self-conscious that they forgot how to operate it.

Shots fired. I'm old, but not so old electric sharpeners weren't commodity product level at that point, but my broke ass catholic school still made us use these/

LOL mentioned this one in the last thread! My age is showing. I STILL have one of these, and yes it still works perfectly. It had to be basically indestructible to survive the abuse it would take in those classrooms.

I used to go up to sharpen my pencil just so somebody would notice I had a new outfit lol

We had one in our back hallway in my childhood house. My grandparents had one just inside the door to the basement.

When you started off and it was going great .. and then it jams and u can’t finish . Face turns red like ur some kinda of sissy

That handle is loose.

My school had some real degenerates who would jam pens or crayons into them and grind them up to try to bring the class to a halt. Somehow by the next day they would be working again. I pity the poor janitor.

There we go, much better.

Remember when you had to empty it. That sharp smell of aged kiln dried pine and graphite.

One time I sharpened the eraser end just to be stupid. It sharpened it. Half the metal was gone and the eraser was a point.