Swingman wrote:

On 6/25/2014 11:51 PM, Gramps' shop wrote:
Reminds me of the instructor in my high school mechanical drawing class who was fixated on how well we deployed his technique in sharpening the lead in our mechanical pencils. We used small hand held sanding blocks and I wish I would have saved one of them.

Dayum! Had one of those teachers also. Our pencil leads had to be wedge
shaped, with a very particular taper, and we were graded on how well we
effected the proper shape, as well as maintained it through use.

Occasionally he would confiscate a pencil from a student and test it.

Can't complain though, it was when I began to realize the importance of
"details" in getting things right(write).

Not only did you learn to properly sharpen a pencil, but you leanred
the much rarer skill of using "effect" properly as a VERB. A rare
skill indeed.
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