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Cloaca
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Aug 23, 2017
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I especially like that Damascus steel one.
Living in Japan I can't really have anything like this. Knives can't be shipped here. And the laws are strict and a bit vague, with the cops having the final say. I think I can legally carry a folding knife with a blade no longer than 6 cm. It's illegal to even possess a knife in your home longer than 15 cm ... except for cooking or in a tool kit. Reading up on this stuff, I'm of a mind to dump my 4 cm mini Swiss army keychain knife, and try to find one with scissors, but no blades, just to be safe.
Aug 23, 2017
Karalyn
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Aug 23, 2017
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CloacaThey do still make travel versions of victorinox and even some multi tools from leatherman and gerber. I can't imagine not having a knife on me every day. Even at school, I use it to sharpen pencils for art.
Aug 23, 2017
Cloaca
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Aug 23, 2017
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KaralynI'm a big pencil guy. I use Mitsubishi Hi-Uni's, which are really expensive, but I don't use them enough to make it a problem, and I use pencil extenders to get the last bit of use out of them. I have hardnesses as soft as 10B, but I usually just use HB. I also have a Japanese lead holder that I love for a big 5.5 mm 6B lead . It's a Japanese maker, but it's a cyllindrical metal equivalent of the German-made E+m clutch pencils sold in the U.S. At my desk I sharpen my pencils with an electric Sunstar pencil sharpener; elsewhere I use a Kutsuwa 2-maiba sharpener, a simple plastic sharpener that has the gimmick of having two opposing blades to keep the pressure balanced. Here's a shootout between an electric sharpener similar to mine, and a 2-maiba:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UX_ELbVdKIs
Aug 23, 2017
Karalyn
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Aug 23, 2017
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CloacaOk thats awesome. ^^ I need to invest in better mechanical pencils, lead holders etc, but atm just get by good enough in class with sharpening adequate wooden ones.
Aug 23, 2017
Axeguy
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Feb 28, 2018
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CloacaDon’t rural schoolchildren still use kiradishis to sharpen their pencils and aren’t carpenters more into traditional tool knives and saws there? Probably out-of-date stereotypes now, right? It seems there are no shortages of traditional knife-makers in Japan, though, so I had just assumed a strong domestic collector market there.
Feb 28, 2018
Cloaca
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Mar 1, 2018
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AxeguyA television show on pencils last night presented this as a popular pencil sharpener.
https://www.amazon.co.jp/カール事務器-鉛筆削り-エンゼル5-プレミアム-A5PR-B/dp/B00777UA9A/
You pull out the metal faceplate, put in the pencil, lock it with the levers, and turn the sharpening lever. The pencil is pulled in and sharpened to a slightly blunt 18-degree point. The show's 40-something host said he had used these sharpeners. Maybe they were the thing circa 1980.
Mar 1, 2018
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