Excalibur Maker 5000

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Жыл бұрын

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@ItsLifeLibertyFreedom Жыл бұрын

Our times were so different, but I'm glad I grew up when I did. They were good times

@tsr7198 Жыл бұрын

Yes they were.

@tedlogan4867 Жыл бұрын

They ARE good times. If you can avoid breathing the smoke, or stepping on human waste or used needles, it's quite entertaining to watch the spectacle.

@Aurora3242 11 ай бұрын

I would go back in a heart beat - loved the eighties!

@James-po5ed 11 ай бұрын

Thing is, if internet suddenly stopped working we would survive quite easily

@Aurora3242 11 ай бұрын

@@James-po5ed without a doubt, my children on the other hand...God bless em!

@aleigh2 Жыл бұрын

Dude, as a late Gen-Xer (1981) who teaches college, I 100% still look for an Excalibur Maker 5000 in classrooms and get excited when there's actually one there. There are always real pencils in my bag ... and actual paper to write on. My students think it's weird. 😄

@18deadmonkeys Жыл бұрын

1974 here. I keep 3 ring binders of ruled paper, note pads, note cards, and yes, boxes of pencils. I keep notes of important things, write down ideas, sketch out projects (I'm a maker of many things) on paper products. I need to find a EM5K... would be awesome to have in my shop.

@doodsanddudes Жыл бұрын

@@18deadmonkeysI would get so excited for my trapper keeper lol and new dividers and labels.

@doodsanddudes Жыл бұрын

Stop hiding you are technically a millennial at 1981 😢

@aleigh2 Жыл бұрын

@doodsanddudes My younger brother ('93 and solidly GenY) says the same thing. 😆 For GenY/Millenials, I've seen starting dates ranging from 1980 to 1985. It depends both on birth year and household/community culture. I have traits of both GenX and GenY, but culturally I fall more into GenX because of an older brother ('79), mostly older friends, and growing up very unplugged from mainstream media. I spent summers barefoot, hanging laundry on the clothesline, shelling peas, shucking corn, and helping can, preserve, pickle and freeze food for the rest of the year. Doing all that, I kinda missed many of the early defining cultural experiences of GenY, so since I'm borderline, I claim GenX. 😄

@doodsanddudes Жыл бұрын

@@aleigh2 ok fair enough. I earned it born in 1978.

@jamesschoonover Жыл бұрын

Your videos always bring me happiness! Oh what the children of today are really missing out on. I often sit and think fondly of how much easier things were at least as far as the pace of the world when we weren't so reliant on technology. The days of just enjoying the outdoors and being actually disconnected from one another and how much more we appreciated each other.

@teazy1088 Жыл бұрын

When I found out years ago that my daughter couldn’t read cursive I was appalled. I placed a copy of a document in front of her and she said “ I know this document is important but I don’t know what it is” I then told her it was the constitution. From now on our decedents will have to take someone else’s word that the constitution says what it says. I can see a truly sad future ahead.

@paganbornspiritbear8249 Жыл бұрын

@@WNT2BLVMaybe that’s why hieroglyphics came about, a form of ancient emoji’s!?! I jest. On a serious note, I too fear for the future and this generation that can’t read/write cursive, nor read an actual map, nor use fact based mathematics…it’s all rather frightening. I’ve done what I could by teaching my 3 all of the above, but I’m sure they’ll be part of only a rare few.

@Xanduur 5 ай бұрын

How about teaching your children to read cursive and write cursive?

@lionofthemorning7997 Жыл бұрын

Cursive handwriting was incredibly important. Not only did it save time by allowing you to keep the writing instrument on the page longer, allowing a more efficient flow from thought to manuscript, it was also an artistic expression of the writer. You could glean precious insights into the writer’s emotions as they wrote. Frantic. Calm. Halting. All these things could give you more information into the words on the page. Sometimes, progress is a step backwards.

@Panzer_the_Merganser Жыл бұрын

And the wonderful aroma surrounded said ‘fishing reel’ after withdrawing Excalibur will always be etched in my mind, and be an instant transportation to my childhood, should I be lucky enough to encounter that sharp, yet calming scent.

@Vermonster23 Жыл бұрын

Most GEN Xers, in fact, have a piece of said, pencil lead in the body due to multiple possibilities at school

@kokocaptainqc Жыл бұрын

*whistling looking at the sky and hands in the back*

@michaelnasser8697 Жыл бұрын

😂😂😂

@thenorsemen1959 2 ай бұрын

Ha! Mine is in my hand

@melaniereese5226 Ай бұрын

You're so right! A girl bumped into me and got me in the back in 4th grade. 43 years later you can still see it

@petuniasevan Ай бұрын

I have a "tattoo" of a pencil lead in the calf of my right leg. It got imprinted in the 4th grade. I'll be 61 in August.

@AndyMcGehee Жыл бұрын

I was pleased to be able to send my Gen-Z son to a school that taught cursive. I didn’t particularly care if he could write in it, but I did want him to be able to read it.

@teresacatlett4974 Жыл бұрын

Oh my gosh I love these videos! We’re oldies but goodies!! Stand the test of time!!

@nicj5354 Жыл бұрын

It was also a lesson in humility, because you had to stand there in front of everyone grinding away, stuck by the wall practically forever.

@MightyBjorn Жыл бұрын

We have a Excalibur Maker 5000 at my work. It really takes me back every time I use it. Those were the days.

@ladyfreedomrocks Жыл бұрын

My cursive was, before my disability, perfect. My signature was art. A young co worker saw it and was like, "why do you make a long scribble "? Her signature was a circle thing. Told her my signature was my name. She looked at me saying "how can anyone tell that it's your name "? She has no idea what cursive was. It sent chills down my spine.

@stanholcomb Жыл бұрын

On the subject of cursive writing; thanks to a comedian of the by gone years( Sam Kenison) I taught myself cursive using my mouth and tongue. About a decade later, due to a neck and head injury taken in the Army this skill was re fined and put to use. It was soooo much easier than blinking Mores code for everything. Now that some fine surgeons have mostly restored me; I only share that particular skill with my wife. 👍😂👍

@GypsySoulSister Жыл бұрын

Yes!! And it was an honor to be selected to empty Excalibur. Lol. I think the only cursive taught now, is how to write or sign first and last name 🙄 I found Mother's business college shorthand book and notepad from 1958. Now THAT'S impressive! 🤯

@WvlfDarkfire Жыл бұрын

Cursive and calligraphy were my favorite things growing up. My handwriting is already atrocious so calligraphy really helped tame the finger

@nicademusx6624 11 ай бұрын

I would appreciate hearing Dadbod reminding us of the time before when we would climb things just to jump off of them...and then do it again.

@odgreen9113 Жыл бұрын

I am glad I teach my children cursive. Oh! I also have one of these mounted on the side of a bookcase in the school room

@Metalman200xdamnit 8 ай бұрын

It did have a wonderful smell to it. It was almost magicial to transform a broken pencil into a fine pointed instrument to write with. Kids today will never know about these relics that facilitated learning.

@sibbylou 11 ай бұрын

🙋‍♀️me! That was my job! Erasers, sweeping, and cleaning the pencil sharpener. Wow! Crazy how much of our childhood is vanishing right before our eyes.

@cdickey3211 Жыл бұрын

The teacher would reprimand me as I poured shavings into a baggy. I kept them for building fires. I was a boy scout when it was just boys.

@mwfmtnman Жыл бұрын

It is so odd. I remember seeing many "antiques" in my 65 year old neighbors' house as a kid(in the 70s), and just using my powers of deduction, I figured out what most were. These kids today are not smarter than generations before, as I keep hearing, they are so....underdeveloped.

@remconoordermeer7015 Жыл бұрын

It did take skill to wield the Excalibur Maker 5000. An incorrect application of pressure could result in the chipping or even breaking of the graphite shaft or the protective wood surrounding it. Creating the perfect tip required a decent amount of skill indeed. I often fondly look back on those times, for as you said, they were good times indeed.

@monicasojka2738 Жыл бұрын

I still write in pencil. I remember these. They were awesome.

@TheBaumcm Жыл бұрын

As you have pointed out, our Gen X childhood allowed us to be children, so no inner child to appease, and prepared us to be creative and innovative while also self sufficient. I can honestly say my childhood was better than anything these kids today experience, because I wasn’t constantly comparing myself to everyone else and I lived fairly stress free.

@benhoutekier2973 11 ай бұрын

I have one of these and my children know how it works. It is up to us to give them the experiences we want them to have. I allow and encourage them to climb a ladder to the garage roof and play. Thank you for the nostalgia!

@AenesidemusOZ 3 күн бұрын

Your neighbor rang and asked if you could please build your own dang garage and stop sending your kids up the ladder onto his! 😂

@JeffryJForan Жыл бұрын

You captured that era of yourh perfectly.

@TheLadyWoreBlack73 12 күн бұрын

Sir, I love listening to you talk! You have the best elocution!

@NOLAgenX Жыл бұрын

Why you don’t have 500k subscribers already is beyond the knowledge of this humble GenX’er.

@jamiegonzalez159 Жыл бұрын

Yes, I love those times. I miss lawn darts.😂😮

@jayo2009 11 ай бұрын

I was born in 1990 and I still miss the simpler years.

@Aurora3242 11 ай бұрын

There was always that one kid, who always had the pencil that was ground down to the eraser, barely enough room to grip it, lol!

@lindaward3156 Ай бұрын

I was one of those kids that actually enjoyed sharpening a pencil. something about the action/noise/sensation spoke to me. as an adult i didn't seek it out but oh my, i sure liked doing it. simple pleasures no longer provided for the children. no wonder they're anxious

@barbburns2122 Жыл бұрын

Sad...and I enjoy your humor. We had one in our home. Later, my 5 children had the joys of knuckle scrape by holding hands to close...Remember how fast we learned to pull our hands back ? Good days !

@thegrizzlyoldtiger Жыл бұрын

Just found your channel saw the “who let the gen X off the hook” video. I must say it’s almost like looking/listening to a mirror! Lol! Great job

@kokocaptainqc Жыл бұрын

even more for me as i could be his twin 😆

@johnvincent4048 Жыл бұрын

I love pencils. I can erase my mistakes and learn from them and start over.

@HammerWrench Жыл бұрын

Excalibur would occasionally call out to me. Harkening me to break my lead purposefully. I’d incline and would set out on my quest to lead my peers to watch, as I every so delicately honed the perfect point. After we shared a few moments, I would promise Excalibur that I would return the next day and once again witness his craft.

@AenesidemusOZ 3 күн бұрын

Not to forget the ultimate use of pencils honed by Excalibur Maker - swordfights! Albeit with small swords; we were but small people.

@AenesidemusOZ 3 күн бұрын

I've just discovered, by reading these comments, that I just be one of the few remaining that write in cursive (Using a pencil or pen - does that mean I'm bigraphial? No judgement.) everyday. Voluntarily! I love the flow of the words when using cursive, as opposed to the stutter using block letters.

@MrsRamos678 Жыл бұрын

I learned about corners from a young age because of those sharpeners. 😂😂

@wessleycoleman3014 Жыл бұрын

Light weight miss cursive. Just because a letter to a lady in cursive made her feel special! Oh the good old days.

@SCDriver-Leo66 7 ай бұрын

OMG HALIRIOUS! PENCILS stick well in soft ceilings tiles & flesh! LOL Gen Xer school teacher here! LMAO 🤣

@old_timey_prospector 9 ай бұрын

Getting up to go to that little corner of the room, stretch your legs for a few seconds, take a look out the window if you were lucky, ground yourself with the scent, sound, and tactile feedback of that lovely little machine... I swear, it was like the gradeschool version of a smoke break. Or soda break, if you prefer. They both suck for you.

@mikelegros2467 Жыл бұрын

Maybe, just maybe you should have taken him fishing or taught him how to draw. Just messin with ya. A couple of years ago I was carrying a cassette tape for some reason and a younger fellow at work tried to make fun of me for still having an Ipod. Even after I showed him he still had no clue. Love your videos. I'm 49, born in 74 so everything you say just seems like common sense.

@staticinwonderland Жыл бұрын

I'm sitting outside Aberdeen proving ground after leaving the job laughing my ass off after a long ass night 😂

@rontucker8389 Ай бұрын

Wow. I’ve been looking for one of those for years. Best sharpener ever.

@DawnMK2023 Жыл бұрын

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say he's never seen a fishing reel; his eyes are too glued to his screens.

@TDSgeek Ай бұрын

My father has one of those mounted on his workbench. I've told him many times that in his will that of all his positions that I would like that one perfect tool I would like that most of all. I'm a carpenter and handyman and they don't make them like they used to!!!

@LC-1748 8 ай бұрын

Ha ha you left out the part where we would sharpen our pencils like daggers and poke each other with our freshly sharpened pencils. 😂

@ginaheller333 Жыл бұрын

I have my Dad's and I like to use Dixon Ticonderoga #2 pencils to this day!

@kokocaptainqc Жыл бұрын

and each time the lead was broken inside we would grind that pencil all the way to try and find a solid part remaining

@cski4048 8 ай бұрын

Prefer the time period I grew up in. Shopping bag book covers, putting your favorite rock bands on the covers. The 70's and 80's, no better time to have your childhood.

@VictorRomeo1917 9 ай бұрын

have one of those in my classroom and i tell the kids (highschool), it either eats your pencil or makes a John Wick pencil - and share a smile with those who get it. (really does make John Wick pencils!)

@susanhaertel294 5 ай бұрын

I really miss the old days😢

@babyrocasmama 11 ай бұрын

My GenZ child does know cursive! She also knows the difference between a pencil sharpener and a fishing reel. She's an artist, so I must keep her in an endless supply of fairly expensive colored pencils, markers, paints, canvases, drawing paper/sketchbooks, etc., and a good pencil sharpener is essential. She caught her first fish at age 7, using a stick, fishing line, and a hook. She then was introduced to fishing technology. She said she liked the stick better. 😂

@justinsharp678 Жыл бұрын

Oh how I long for the days of old.

@michaelkeyes3856 11 ай бұрын

Them excalibers would outlast todays automobiles

@loraann54fi10 4 ай бұрын

I have one of these mounted on my roll top desk. It gets used a lot just for fun.

@terririmmer4706 Жыл бұрын

I remember standing at the pencil sharpener one time and I had this really mean teacher. While I was standing there sharpening my pencil she said, "You've got two left feet at the pencil sharpener." I didn't know what she was talking about but I never forgot it every time I saw one.

@donk026 Жыл бұрын

We still have a paper shopping list in the kitchen and both my girls must write their food requests in cursive. Not completely lost art, but I've had to ask what word they were attempting to write

@chuckthompson4610 Жыл бұрын

My friend and partner in crime in middle school got a frog leg jammed in the pencil sharpener. He too was unwise as to it's true power.

@brookms4037 2 күн бұрын

Thank you, I really enjoy your work. 😂

@mactireliath2356 Жыл бұрын

I have a classic pencil sharpener, purchased at an Antique Mall (…) affixed to my desk side, next to a collection of Black Mirado No. 2’s.

@waynethompson1115 11 ай бұрын

Ah yes the pencil. Useful nearly everywhere and it didn't need to be charged. You didn't even need an Excalibur 5000 to make it work. You could sharpen it on the sidewalk.

@karlsquire8148 Жыл бұрын

You are the best buddy.

@JesusMontiel-gu5um 10 ай бұрын

Teach and spread the word across our lands , everyone should watch these videos.

@michealspry2561 8 ай бұрын

There was one time i sunk Excalibur into someone.😂 in front of the teacher i left my mark that day.😂😂and didn't even have to have my daily visit with the principal.

@thomasboyd72 Жыл бұрын

Remembering the big blue pencil

@ImTheDaveman 3 ай бұрын

Sadly in my school, we had to use the Drunken Merlin 560-XX model (circa 1965). Sharpen the pencil as we may, it would break the lead off and inevitably transform our lengthy pencils., cowering stumps.

@AenesidemusOZ 3 күн бұрын

😂😂🧙‍♂️🍻

@tamarackgaming 7 ай бұрын

I live in the house I grew up in. Upstairs still has one of those screwed into the bookcase that my father put there about 48 years ago. And yes, it is sad that the youngster doesn't know the difference between a pencil sharpener and a fishing reel.... if there is failure GenX has to own, it's that even one of our grandchildren doesn't know this. [edit] Just remembered this, ever get a pencil that was made so badly that the lead was broken so badly you couldn't sharpen it? Get it to a perfect point and as soon as you used it, the little piece at the end just fell out on to the paper?

@cteal2018 Жыл бұрын

I wrote out a sentence the other day in cursive... My child thought it was elvish of some kind

@silverthorngoodtree5533 Жыл бұрын

I would put my pencil in at an angle to give it a flat surface with a point. Great for cursive to make those sweeping letters like L, G, J. Memories.

@richardweidman7193 Жыл бұрын

Pencil wars with our #2's!✏✏✏

@walterkoziol3822 Жыл бұрын

Now, the only cursive the generations after Next-gen need to know is their signature.

@shibosuru 7 ай бұрын

My mom still had one in her house until last year. Cracks me up kids don't know what they are

@kevindonaghey8483 Жыл бұрын

I still have one of those sharpeners

@muneebaha.6453 Жыл бұрын

Best 30 sec break ever!

@lorettacarroll6015 Жыл бұрын

Somehow in every classroom the thing was always way to close to the wall it was mounted on. So you bruised your knuckles constantly sharpening your pencils.

@pskarnaq73 Жыл бұрын

What of Lawn Darts, O Wise One? We are eager for thy tale!

@jasonallred244 9 ай бұрын

Funny and sad at the same time. Back in my day we would try to break them with putting anything that would fit. Never broke. LOL

@darcychurch9749 Жыл бұрын

I still have and use one in my home

@tiffycurtis1844 3 ай бұрын

Nope .... take me now smight me oh mighty smighter. 💀

@foncywoolsocksiii923 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for bringing awareness.

@artfuldodger978 Жыл бұрын

My son's learning how to write in cursive in the second grade. That or he's playing a game of connecting all of the letters together.

@pamweese7678 Жыл бұрын

My husband has one hanging in the garage.

@agoodsoulwhocares87 Жыл бұрын

Pencil sharpener, & my no.2 or no. 4 # pencils had lead.

@rogerdeese2491 Жыл бұрын

Interactive games of war on paper.

@donniedays1655 Жыл бұрын

You taking me back! 🤣🤣

@Raiden4019 11 ай бұрын

Cursive is, as the name implies, incredibly cursed. Speaking as a tail-end millennial who was around for cursive to still be drilled into us in elementary school only for it to become completely irrelevant by the time I had a diminutive ASUS laptop for highschool, the only thing I can credit cursive for is giving me a passable signature, and early-onset arthritis.

@UpstateNick 10 ай бұрын

As a child, I did not understand why I had to learn how to write in cursive. Aside from my mother, I did not know any adult who wrote in cursive. I was certain that learning “new hieroglyphics” as I called it, was as pointless as learning how to play the recorder. 40 years later, I still believe that my teachers simply ran out of things to teach, so they filled the remainder of the school day with cursive and recorder lessons.

@libralove6042 Жыл бұрын

And us gals would break our pencil tips on purpose, so we could show off our cute outfit, in hopes our crush would notice us 😅😅😅 I still proudly own and use my beloved Excalibur 5000 💞 Built to last 💪

@josephwurzer4366 2 ай бұрын

Great keep this up!

@pennydink72 Жыл бұрын

Oh and don't come in with a big pencil.....Babyyyy you get to adjust it!!! Oh my gawd!

@karend8404 11 ай бұрын

My classmates were often in trouble for sharpening their pencils for too long. OK - I did it too.

@littlesmith4593 Жыл бұрын

Love it!🙃🙂🙃

@Orncaex Жыл бұрын

I seam to be born in a weird time frame. Old enough to use Analog, and I was there when things turned digital and am comfortable with either. Is this why I can't learn new languagees? Already hit my cap?