And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
My grandfather had a old school pencil sharpener hanging inside the cellar door. Many times as a kid would search high and low in the house looking for unsharpened pencils just to use it.
I still have one just like that. The rubber in the attaching mechanism is old and brittle, won't hold vacuum against any surface. I should strip that off, drill four holes and mount it in the garage. Only problem is I use pencils mostly in the house these days. I have a plastic pocket sharpener for those. Maybe I should just toss the whole thing.
Still have one on the corner of my work bench, gets used regularly.
ReplyDeleteI got the wall mounted one in my wood shop
DeleteMine is more than 60 years old, gray, wall mount, and the best part: it has the levers to pull the rotating disc out for drafting pencils.
ReplyDeleteMy granddaughter’s school room still has on the wall.
ReplyDeleteI can smell that picture.
ReplyDeletenice one DTW
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather had a old school pencil sharpener hanging inside the cellar door.
ReplyDeleteMany times as a kid would search high and low in the house looking for unsharpened pencils just to use it.
I keep a plastic pocket version in my toolbox and the kitchen junk drawer.
ReplyDeletePut some lead in your pencil, boy.
ReplyDeleteI still have one just like that. The rubber in the attaching mechanism is old and brittle, won't hold vacuum against any surface. I should strip that off, drill four holes and mount it in the garage. Only problem is I use pencils mostly in the house these days. I have a plastic pocket sharpener for those. Maybe I should just toss the whole thing.
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