Antiques Roadshow meets Survival Comms. I love that self-feeding feature. Have never seen that before, very cool! My only concern (he said facetiously) is how much RFI that produces when the teeth are in motion, like a spark-gap. If you can get in a screen-room and put a spectrum analyzer next to it, that would be interesting to see what it looks like. Haha

I purchased that same pencil sharpener years ago for the exact same purpose....I also purchased lots and lots of pencils and paper. I also have the same model manual Underwood typewritter I learned to type on. Old school will rule!

I have 2 of the Boston manual feed sharpeners. Mine have to be screwed to a wall or bench, but they work great!

Mine, when you open it up say's to oil the holes on the back of the shafts so I just pull the pincher on the one side and then put a few drops of 3 in 1 oil into those shafts. Works flawlessly. I did get tired of holding it down, while simultaneously pinching and pulling and inserting a pencil though so I drilled out the little rivets holding the base on, enlarged the holes slightly and screw mounted it to my workbench.

We've got one very similar to that one hanging on the wall next to our dining table! Except ours is one of the usual Bero Chicago Apsco Sharpeners. Very cool that you have your name on your pencil. I had pencils with my name in elementary school because a couple of kids kept stealing them!

Nice! I've never seen a self feeding model! I might need one in my life!