This is going to be a long shot but does anyone know the proper way to sharpen the spiral flutes on one of these sharpeners?
I just bought one and it’s serviceable but leaves the wood a bit rough.
It looks like just turning the cutter on some 1000-2000 grit paper might sharpen the flutes but I figured I’d ask if anybody knows how first.

Hope this helps. Whatever you do, don't use oil in it if/when you clean it.

At about $15 for a new one, it seems hardly worth the effort.

Brand new or used? I’ve seen used ones for sale.

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Originally posted by architect:
At about $15 for a new one, it seems hardly worth the effort.

I have a family heirloom one. The one we used as kids. It was screwed to the steps going down to the basement. I’m 70, and have two older brothers so it is old but still works perfectly. I took it down when we sold the home place. I wouldn’t take 500 bucks for it, and it still doesn’t need sharpening that I can tell.

How do you sharpen the sharpener used to sharpen the original sharpener?

The $15 brand new one is made in China.

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Originally posted by PASig:
How do you sharpen the sharpener used to sharpen the original sharpener?

How much wood can a woodchuck chuck?

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Originally posted by ryan81986:
Hope this helps. Whatever you do, don't use oil in it if/when you clean it.
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Pretty much as I guessed. But I’d be using my DMT diamond bench stones. I have four of them: extra coarse, coarse, fine, and extra fine.

Each is an 11-1/2” x 2-1/2” x 3/8” steel bar with an 11-1/2” x 2-1/2” abrasive surface.

I’ve sharpened a good many wooden pencils with a pocket knife.

In case you get ambitious:

Guinness Book of World Records

The most powerful pencil sharpener in the world is driven by a V12 670-horsepower Rolls Royce Centurion tank engine. It was created by Peter Svensson (Sweden). The sharpener is of the traditional rotary type from the 1950s. He restored the engine over the 1998/1999 winter. The pencil sharpener was then added and was fully-operational by the spring of 1999. The assembly is designed with a transmission so that the sharpener works at around normal speed when the engine is working at full power (around 2,500 rpm).

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I have too, but I also like using sandpaper. They make a sandpaper thingamajigger whatchamacallit for that.
LINK for low tech pencil and lead sharpener
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^^^Needs more power:

My students loved to sharpen pencils. They’d walked through the classroom, stick the pencil in, grind, then look. Repeat and repeat. A new pencil became a nub.
When I was subbing once I watched a student deliberately break the point on his pencil. Then ask to sharpen it. Told him to use his other pencil. “I don’t have one” (smirk) “ Then use your pen.” “No I don’t have one.” “ Then deal with it.”
My para almost lost it. She told me the kid tried it with everyone.

I don’t ever remember having to ask permission to sharpen a pencil in school. As long as we weren’t disruptive it was never an issue.