Vintage Pencil Sharpener Restoration & Modification
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- For a long time I've wanted to restore one of these old hand cranked pencil sharpeners. Restoring mechanical items is always so interesting and this type of vintage sharpener are beautiful. The sharpener was very rusty and it didn't sharpen pens very well so it was in need of a restoration. This pencil sharpener is made by Boston but I'm not sure what year it is. Possibly from the 1940's.
I started the restoration by removing rust from rusty parts with rust remover. The shiny part on the shell has not really rusted but the rust on the surface is probably from the other parts so I didn't put it in the rust remover. That part I first polished, but I found out there was a little corrosion damage on it anyways so I went back and sanded away most of the damage and then polished it again.
After rust removal there was still some paint left on the parts so I used paint remover and steel brush to remove the paint. Then the parts were re-painted black.
Because the blades seemed dull I decided to try to sharpen those with acid bath. I used vinegar. When the blade is in vinegar it will corrode a little which will leave the edge of the blade sharper. I left the blades in vinegar for maybe 2 hours. This same technique is used to sharpen files.
The metal part on the handle only needed some polishing so I did that. And the wooden part was first sanded to remove some whatever was left of paint that had been there and then waxed.
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No music, no voice, just the sound of a talented person cleaning some random thing up and making it work again. Perfect
And that's all you need.
Talented?
Everyone can do this...
andre92h Maybe, but he actually does it, and we have not yet seen what you are capable of doing...
midei where can i show you?
Gosh I remember being so eager to be the kid that emptied the shavings into the trash.
Why did I want to grow up. Something so small gave me so much enjoyment
I loved being the one to empty the pencil shavings but you could never get the bit of them out
@@samp.1418 I distinctly remember getting my fat hand stuck in it and everyone laughing at me 😂
Bella Capulet also hitting your knuckles against the wall every time
When you're a kid, you're excited to grow up so that you can have the freedom to do what you want, when you want. The catch is that by the time you have that freedom, all the things you once wanted to do no longer bring you joy.
It made me.
The friken.
Happiest.
I was lucky enough to get those days when I had them.
I'm 18 dude lol
Wasted time when I was a kid sharpening pencils and now I'm wasting time as an adult watching a man sharpening a pencil sharpener
Master you are alive?
Did you use a pencil sharpener, or just your razor sharp fingernails?
hello Bruce Lee.
Mood
@@SoMooLand1nine7 vggh
I just remember destroying my knuckles by hitting the wall while using these lol
nobodyspecial saame
😬
Same here
nobodyspecial the memories that you just resurfaced
Yup
Did anyone else have sharpeners similar to that one in school? I’m only 21 and seeing this makes me feel old lol
I still have that one
These were everywhere in the 90's
Yes in every class room
Alex K i did.
They had them when I was a kid, and I'm 54. Why mess with a good design?
These videos have been so calming to me in the last few days. No stress, no chaos. Just restoring things to their best shape. Do you think rusty remove or acetone would fix the world right now?
You can smell that shaving case being opened through the screen.
Haha that iconic graphite + wood smell
firecrash6 sniff snuff
As it was pulled apart, I felt that spicy tinge in my nostrils like a ghost from the past. *shutter!*
To me it always smelled like armpit mixed with wood haha
The best smell ever. Tbh I would get a pencil shaving air freshener lol
I love that his vintage pencil sharpener is the same sharpener that I was on my classroom wall in 5th grade during 2010. It’s really making me feel my 22 years over here.
😂🤣
Had the same ones in my elementary school and I was born in the 60’s.
😂🤣
Classrooms are big on reuse. And not having sufficient upkeep for these to keep sharpening pencils with any form of efficiency.
Edit: sorry, forgive me, I'm just jaded and got used to the electric ones they had in schools for a short time before I dropped out.
Can confirm this is IDENTICAL to the ones used in the classrooms in the 80s as well. They are truly timeless!
The satisfaction of seeing clear rust remover pouring out of the bottle...it was about time for a new one huh!? 😉
New year new bottle. Not really but the last few times I've only needed a tiny amount or I've had really dirty parts so I used my old bottle because this stuff is reusable to some extent
I appreciated the safety feature put to opening this product! Great way to protect our children!
Schlbuditz Ooooo yea. Give me that satisfaction!!
does anyone know what the rust remover is called?
@@kadingast7344 I don't what he uses, but there are many alternatives: carbibles.com/best-rust-remover/
I have determined that you are the best restoration channel. No voice, no music, no sounds other than the sounds of pure restoration. I love it
This can’t be vintage because if it is, I’m old.
Thinking the same thing. I'm only 47 and this is the pencil sharpener I had in grade school, high school, and at home. Only difference was, I remember having a small wheel on the insertion side (with 3 choices) that you could choose what size pencil you had.
Great sharpener! Great video!
You’re not old, you’re vintage!
I’m only 19 and I had one at my primary school.
Gregg - Only 47? Average age of DEATH is 78!
If you are lucky you have another 30 years. But not of QUALITY.
We should take a serious look at Logan’s Run.
We're all old here lol
Love how you restored this to its old glory. I just had flashbacks of school sharpening my pencil at the end of my teachers desk. Mrs. Layba was the best 4th grade teacher! She’s the one who made me believe I was smarter then ppl treated me. I then became an A student until senior year. (Bad summer...more like bad life choices). Thanks to all the dedicated teachers out there!!!
I really like to watch this before bed it just makes me calm
I do it every night beforr sleep 😊
No bs commentary, no beating around the bush, Just right to work! Love it!
I remember these in elementary school. Sometimes I would purposely break my pencil lead just so I could walk up to the front of the classroom to sharpen it. A tiny exercise of freedom in an otherwise strictly controlled environment. Times were simpler then.
I was the entire opposite. I was too shy to get out of my seat for almost anything and hoped that everyone had left before I done it. It's why I packed my pencil box full of sharp pencils and prayed to God neither of them would break. I don't know why but it felt like going to the principal's office everytime I needed to do something trivial like that.
I remember having a few in classes that were shot and would shred more than actually sharpen a pencil.
I hate it when it sharpens the wood part instead of the lead. Teachers will never understand why I've bin at the sharpener for almost 5min
branden8045 theultramangofighter true that’s why I don’t want to sharpen my pencil when I need to
Been*
Why does that sound dirty
😂 I just gave up and didn’t learn at that point I’d come home havin a bad day
Yeah like "You've been at the pencil sharpener for awhile, why isn't it sharpened yet?" "It keeps breaking!" "Then go get another one. I want to start class soon" Which is why I like mechanical.
I got one of those, still works too. I never thought of using vinegar to sharpen the cutters. I used a superfine diamond sharpener and tediously went over each ridge. Vintage Boston sharpeners are well made and this one you restored should serve you well for many years
I'm an artist and the older pencil sharpeners work so well! They sharpen without removing to much, which= perfect in my opinion!
We use smaller versions of that
"Hey can I sharpen a pencil?" "Just one second, let me get my drill."
🤣🤣🤣
Lol
Me: browsing blockbuster movies: "meh, nothing good."
TH-cam: "Wanna see a guy restore an old pencil sharpener to it's glory days?"
Me: "You're goddamn right."
Same
You Son of a Bitch, I'm In 👉
Jacob Miller I can hear the enthusiasm
what a dumbass and evil comment/
@@TheresaPowers How do you get "evil" from that comment? Geez.
this sharpener was stunningly well made. It can serve its purpose decades ahead!
So I'm watching this, get to the end, and I'm like "How does attaching a piece of wood to the handle will make it work better?". Then I see the drill and my mind says "OH..."
Othervise you will forget what you needed to write or draw while you sharpen the pencil
I also smiled when I saw the drill.
I read your comment first before watching the video, and I was like what is he talking about? then I see the wood and the drill and was ohh now I know what he was talking about!
RooskiWolf same
I don’t get it
Whenever I clean my George Foreman grill I like to pretend I'm restoring it 😂. I'm addicted to your videos, keep up the awesome work!
😂😂😂😂 that's great!
I do the same thing with my launp, each week.
LOIS
Laundry, darned autocorrect
smooth flex, I appreciate it.
It's time to "restore" the refrigerator and closets.
Had these in every room when I was in primary! Miss the smell of freshly sharpened pencils! SO miss the 1970's!!
a school in my town still has these and they are working perfectly fine! amazing to see someone like this so dedicated to just fixing random crap, doesnt even matter what it is.
This is how we used to show off outfits and shoes back in the day !
I think Puchito puchito means that this sharpener used to be on teachers table, so whenever you needed to sharpen a pen, you went to the front of the class and then everyone saw your outfit and shoes.
OutiKoo ... and laugh at you for trying to sharpen a pen....
ok boomer
I pooped in your DIAPER grow some pubes kid
i love that little typo
"These are teh blades"
its so cute
Omg. Wait Teh isnt a thing for a blades???
Geez
and my dumbass thought it was the term for the blades lol
Are you implying that he makes typos on purpose to make himself seem more approachable to viewers?
@@elijaha773 i just said it was cute jeez
cant even make opinions or compliments anymore smh
Gives me big MySpace vibes
Love that every time you open up a "new" jug of MC-51, it's covered up with insane amounts of dust.
Just now saw this video. I worked at Hunt Mfg, back in the 90's before it went to China. We built the Speedball model among others. In my department we punched out most of the steel parts you see in the video. I personally used to cut the thin oval chrome-plated strip between the two end pieces. It was done by hand because tissue paper was sandwiched between the metal, protecting it. The two end pieces and the handle arm were punched out by automatic punch press. The shafts and blades were machined out of bar stock and the base was cast from alloy and painted the shiny light gray you can barely see in the video. The other parts were chromed in house, a VERY smelly dept. We made many different models of sharpeners, mostly the kind that rotated for different sized pencils. We also built the X-Acto knives. All of our stuff was marked "Statesville, NC." Very nice video, gave me many good memories and flashbacks to an earlier time.
I love it when you renovate tools; it's nice to see them getting used in later videos
Never in my life have I seen one of these look that beautiful!
I like reading any newspapers that people use as protection.
So imagine the surprise, when it was in Finnish.
Torilla tavataan, and so on.
Itse aavistelin jo rust remover rasiasta ja rupesin etsimään netin kautta samalla. Sitten huomasin sanomalehden ja arvaus osui oikeaan.
Just cause schools still have them doesn’t mean that particular one isn’t old lol
Yeah, it’s a simple good design, no reason to change it.
I had one of these EXACT ones about 10 years ago
"They say this car is vintage when we still have cars today"
The ones in my old school are probably almost as old as this one tbh
I have one from the 80's
And yes it looks just like this one
I love the fact that after the pencils were sharpened, the wood leading up to the graphite tip was smooth, not all chewed up like the pencil sharpeners my old teachers had lol
I have one of these in my basement. Works great, original paint is in great condition and still pretty sharp. Nice to know that if I ever want to restore it, it can be done! The black with the polished metal is sweet!
everytime i watch these asmr restoration vids, i feel like i can just listen to the sounds as i'm taking a rest.
I've got one of those that I recovered when my father died. I remember using it as a kid back in the early 70s... I'm gonna have to give it a new life! Thanks for the inspiration!
Reminds me of the ones at all my grade schools, though those had a disc with holes on the side (to let you sharpen pencils from small size to normal to bigger ones)
It's why I had a small pencil sharpener with me all the time since they always poorly sharpen my pencil and the handles make parts of my palm and fingers red and burned >:|
Same, except the time I was in grade school, they weren't usable. So we upgraded to plug-in pencil sharpeners.
That's the Boston Ranger 55. I bought an old one off of ebay for my shop. You can't beat the things for reliability and sturdiness. The newer versions aren't nearly as sturdy as the older ones. The older ones are all cast compared to the newer ones that are stamped metal.
Awww man...the sound of it takes me back to class when I was just a kid. We used to love sharpening our pencils on them things. They worked so well. You did an amazing job restoring it.
This truly is the BEST restoration channel on TH-cam!
Vintage Pencil Sharpener
Simple things that last more than a lifetime. I have the same EXACT sharpener that was my grandfather's and I still use it at least 3 or 4 times a week with no problems.
Ah, the memories. Every classroom in my elementary school had one bolted to the wall at student height.
Lucky
I was always too short for them :(
The drill getting put to it was probably one of the most satisfying things I've ever watched I think
“It’s a bit slow”
Makes it go faster
Turns on slow motion
😂
Who find restoration videos as satisfying videos?
the amount of fun you’re having at the end tickles me 😂
Back in the eighties, Boston sharpeners seemed to be everywhere in school.
What a brilliant video, I laughed so much when you hooked the drill up to it 😂😂 fantastic ingenuity thanks for sharing 👍
That was beautiful to watch, I love it! I've always had one of these around...at school, at home, now at work. The darn things last forever and they're so much faster than a tiny little hand sharpener or an electric one. I think I've run across just one that didn't give a good sharpening, and that was likely because it had been used hard over the decades. So watching this one be restored to give it new life made me a happy and made my day. Thanks so much!
90% of classes ive been in still use hand cranked
Well, we have a smaller version of the hand cranked sharpner
Cause they are reliable so the ones you see aren’t like this but are newer and more reliable
This man never coughs or sneezes. We don't even hear him breathe. He brought asmr to another level.
there was one video, where he sanded a lot and very fast and very ... hm.... obsessed. you heard him breath. oh my...
You say its vintage but I swear I can go to my old high school and find the exact same one still mounted and neglected.
Oh my gosh, sooo satisfying. I have a slightly different one on my wall ( plastic cover). Loved this and loved the upgrade!
I'm an engineer by trade, currently working in automation maintenance, but I like to tinker when I can. Big 3DPrinter fanatic more than anything now, but motorbikes, cars, and odd bits.
These are nice finds you work on and you do a terrific job love watching your video's when I have time, its nice to see how simple yet effective pieces of tooling were, even technical parts are much easier to work on / clean / repair.
Better than the throwaway mentality of today.
I’d love to have a restored one of these on my office wall. Sharpening pencils was the highlight of my day in elementary school 😂
I have to admit something that I am ashamed of...
I skip to the end after the first minute or so to see the finished product. Not all the time or anything but some day's I have very little patience.
I apologize for that because you have obviously spent many hours working hard to bring life back into these items. I still very much appreciate your work. Thank you for sharing your talent with all of us.
Edit : I just wanted to be honest.
we forgive you!
Ah, the knuckle buster 3000. Great video
One of these was attached to the wall in my parents house when they bought it.
Whoever lived there last is my kind of man.
I sold my house 4 years ago, and there was one attached to a door frame in my basement. I left it there for the new owners to enjoy. I sharpened my pencils on it when I was a kid.
Hey Dude,
I really want to pay you my respect, for restoring all those forgotten gems out there. I Also want to say, that you improved yourself in style and also in tools and in general. I am always happy ti see that there is a new video, of you restoring what you could find
had one of these in my childhood home. loved it. sharpest sharpener ever!
My workplace still has one of these in a bin somewhere. Fairly certain it’s the exact same model and brand (I had opened it out of curiosity, and all the internal parts, including that hex ring, were the same as in this video).
Me: I need to sleep at least 8 hours everyday.
Also me at 3 am:
Also me: I'll just watch one more 20 minute restoration.
8 videos later: BUT HE STILL HAS TO FIX THIS LIGHTER!! I CAN'T SLEEP UNTIL HE DOES!
Plz stop
@@ohmeganerd ?
Currently me right now.
3 am?
Amateur. 6 am for me.
Walking up to these to “sharpen” your pencil, just to show off your outfit to the whole class.
Good times
Did you really do that? 😄
Wat, never did that
Hell yeah.. I remember my first day of 6th grade in my denim mini skirt, new pink Chuck Taylor high tops, swinging my strands of cheap 80's Madonna inspired beads, chewing a big wad of Hubba Bubba. I thought I was the sh*t walking up to the pencil sharpener. Im pretty sure I had the sharpest pencils around.
"Vintage" I thought it was pretty standard, I still have one stuck to a post in the basement. I wonder how long it took the engineers to figure out the best cutting angle on the blades.
I'm 22 years old and I remember these in my elementary/middle schools. The nostalgia is real.
OMG I remember these when I was a kid at school, they did a great job of sharpening Pencils
This video comes with cherished good memories from childhood. ❤
Edit: Sharpening the pencil so faster takes away all the fun.
i love how much fun they’re having with the finished product lolol
I've been on a binge watching you restore stuff, you are really good at what you do 👏 I miss being in school and sharpening my pencils with these sharpeners.
Ha "vintage pencil sharpener." Welcome to every single high school classroom.
Try elementary, haven’t gone to middle school so I can’t say but once I hit high school they went missing 😂
ytrewqmcnoggin It was all electronic pencil sharpeners in every class once I hit high school.
Christian D. Haha not even that for me, we all had to bring our own but I guess that was just our states problem
You do know that just because we still use something that it doesn't change the fact that there are vintage ones from way back when.
Our schools had hand cranks and electric because pricks would purposely break the tips off the pencils while using the electric ones, or snapped the pencils in half until you couldnt get them out, which ultimately blocked them and prevented use/broke them.
I used vinegar to sharpen worn blades in a sharpener with a similar mechanism (Dixon Enduro no. 20), and it worked very well. Never would have thought of that. Thanks for making this video!
I love this stuff, and used to just watch jimmy diresta. I'm so glad I found this channel and keep up the amazing work!
I’ve been binging these vids for a few days. And I was so surprised when the rust remover was clean and new!! It had gotten to the point of almost being black in more recent vids
Hi, love all your work and was curious if you ever sell or donate any of the pieces you restore? Your craftsmanship is so unique and oddly satisfying to watch 😊 👍
Very satisfying video, thank you for all that you do!
There was always that one (or 2) morons in class who would put this thing on sideways and let the shavings collect on the side rather than in the bottom of the container. Once built up it would cause the sharpener to sharpen unevenly.
So THATS why it did that.
This, except the whole class versus me and like, the two other well behaved kids
Who else got a chuckle at 14:11?
Very satisfying video.
I'm a subscriber now.
Imagine showing up to class with the drill to rev up the old sharpener?
Ah the memories of getting up during class to go and sharpen my pencil...
I love hand crank pencil sharpeners.
They sharpen pencils amazingly unlike the plastic ones. (hand held plastic pencil sharpeners that you can buy at walmart for 3$ or something)
Quick Mentions to the electric pencil sharpeners, they're pretty good too, better than plastic ones as well.
Good job colleague!!!
I love the contrast between the black and shinny
X-Acto still makes the Boston Model L just like this one. It's freaking EXPENSIVE! Over $100!!
dang, is something like that really considered "vintage" by now, I remember using one of those in highschool.....
There's something very therapeutic about the sounds from the buffer machines.
My mind: "what's he gonna do with the dri...
Oh...ok"
Let’s take a moment to recognize this hero for doing this at midnight to give us some solid content.
Damn, I haven't seen one of these since I was in school lol
Well this makes me feel ancient! This is the exact same pencil sharpeners that my elementary school and high school had all over the building. One in every classroom and a couple in the hallways. I was hoping you would have gotten rid of those casting marks near the mounting holes and handle.
“Vintage Pencil Sharpener”
Me, looking at my plastic pencil sharpener next to me: huh...
Remember those days in class where you spun it so fast, you end up hitting your knuckle lol. Wow. I haven’t seen one of these in so long. Actually beginning to miss things being around.
Odd Tinkering.
Where Pencils go to die.
:-D
I bought myself a Boston Model L sharpener in 1978 for my art pencils. It had a bright chrome finish. the one my grandparents had since before I can remember had a silvery-gray hammered paint finish, and was very heavy .
I haven't seen those since the late 90s to early 2000s. Elementary school.
When it comes to your videos I prefer seeing you clean/restore the entire part in a high-speed, rather than a lower speed and showing only part of the cleaning/restoration of the part and then a cut away. Just me tho, your videos are addictive.
Out of curiosity I looked up Boston model Ls and it looks like they're from the 1970s, actually
Later than that!
I remember having these stuck to the classroom wall in elementary and middle school (and I think high school too), and I'm only 19 lol. These are definitely still around. My little brother's classroom last year had one too, he was in 5th grade last yr.
Bye I’ll see u guys in 2 or 3 yrs when this is in everyone’s recommended
Your channel is my meditation app. Thank you.
"Vintage" bro we still have these that my school
Well they were first manufactured before you were alive dumbass
@@politicallyinaccuratetoast4757 ok boomer
@@Lucas8744-g7r Just because someone says something is old doesn't mean they're a boomer.