Both of them are gorgeous. I do think that the Høvel, have to come and live with me at some point :D Thank you so much for showing us these beauties :D
These have been advertised in my FaceBook feed for the past six or eight months. Thanks for the demo. I can tell that they everything that they are made out to be. You are so very fortunate to have been gifted a set. I would LOVE to have them but, sadly, just being a hobbyist with limited income, I can't possibly justify the expense.
Hi Bruce I have noticed seeing them on Facebook a lot, I thought it was just because I had reached out to them and obviously researched them as well, but they must just be running a marketing campaign at the minute.
I’m an artist working digitally and analogue. I use a very expensive French pastel pencil range. I have always used an exacto blade to sharpen them. It’s always been horrible results. Hovel seems like an answers to my prayers! It’s costly, but you do get what you pay for. For me, this is a solution to problems with trying and failing to find a sharpener that fits the pencil. Hovel makes that worry disappear, and to me that’s worth the money. Excellent review! Thanks very much for your insight 🧡
I really like the look of the iris, it's so shiny and fancy! The problem with a compass is the annoying hole that gets poked in the middle of the paper. The pencil plane is also really pretty but it looks like it would take an age to sharpen a pencil, lol.
😂😂😂 I knew when he started talking in the background anyone watching with a dog would have their little ears prick up, poor Penny. Koda was probably shouting for help to his fellow K9s in the art world “help me... this lunatic is back talking to himself in the living room, he scares me when he starts talking to himself and showing his pencils to nobody” 🤣😂🤣
These lovely products are good for just slowing down and enjoying the process of sharpening the pencil etc. I love the aesthetics of these items just fo sheer beauty. I think once one got used to using them there would be no more knarled pencils. Many thanks for sharing.
At 24:12 I was expecting James bond to come into the seen🤣 Just love the gadget stuff that has a vintage look, I hope the brass is not just a coating with cheap metal underneath, would be nice if they are solid quality brass, They also would both look great in bronze I would fill the numbers and measuring lines in with red or black acrylic paint to make them pop out ,
Absolutely beautiful pieces. Wouldn't they be gorgeous on the desk of an architect or illustrator or even a You Tube artist. 😁 What an air of panache. I looked up the prices and I'll just be buying a good electric one. I still don't know which one to get for colored pencils. Did you review electric sharpeners and I missed it? Probably did. Ahh well, so glad you are the owner of these two beauties. Love to the family. I know I am nobody to your daughter but I think of her. My daughter is your daughter. She is 38 now and she's beautiful and tough, but what a road we have been down. 💕🐕
Good and in depth review as always, I always enjoy watching your videos a lot! The Høvel is certainly beautifully crafted. I don’t use pastel pencils and as long as I have a good hand crank sharpener it’s perfectly fine for me. If I need a super sharp point, I go with a very sharp razor blade and I’m fine too. Sure, if you get the wooden stand that goes with the Hovel it’s far easier and possibily gives you the control over every single atom of the pencil you are sharpening, but I won’t definitely consider this a “game changer”. A nice tool by the way, I wouldn’t mind to have it on my desk!
I appreciate your videos, I truly do...but this time it took 11 minutes before you got to the point of sharpening. Could I kindly suggest even a 30 second intro that says for example: This is the sharpener, it works by running a razor blade over the pencil while safely protecting your fingers and do a quick few strokes, then go into the lengthy introduction. I have both arthritis and nerve damage in my hands and my right thumb is so distorted it is ugly and becomes very painful if I go over a couple hours with my pencils. I was excited to hear about this product, but I eventually just advanced it to where you started the demonstration. I hope you take this in the spirit it is given, you are such a nice young man and I love your accent that I would hate for you to think I am being mean spirited. I think my suggestion would increase the number of people who listen all the way through the video. I usually read your articles rather than watch the videos, but here I needed to see the example. I should win a prize for longest comment ever! Thanks!
I am familiar with planes, it was how you could plain a pencil without cutting your fingers off that I was interested in! I can't feel the ends of 5 of my fingers so I am super careful around sharp objects.
I think perhaps the Iris would fall into this category but definitely not the Hovel. The Hovel is an incredibly effective tool, when I very first seen them I thought the same as you, but using the Hovel was so easy. For Pastel pencils I have used Stanly Knives and Craft Knives all of which make a mess of the barrel and it is very very easy to push a little too hard and snap the core. With the Hovel the blade protrudes as far as you allow it abs thus prevent the mess and cores snapping. As for the price, again I thought the same as you, but if you look on Amazon or other places, to buy a really good sharpener, and I am only talking hand held sharpener, you can pay up to £30. Once you look for a good hand crank or electric sharpener you are then into even bigger money. My only issue with the electric sharpeners, and of course I haven’t used them all so can’t comment too much, but in my experience they really eat away at the pencil. With the Hovel you have the precision to simply refine the core to a sharp point without touching the wood barrel. I completely agree that they are expensive, but as I said in my written review, how many times do we hear or say ourselves “they don’t make them they way they used to” or “They don’t build things to last any more”? I hear it and say it pretty often with almost everything. With these products they are going to last, they are not going to break, warp or anything like that and will probably be passed on to grandchildren. I love on the bread line financially speaking, living with our belts tightened so much it’s causing a hernia 😂😂, but if I am using pencils like the Luminance, Lightfast etc all expensive pencils, I want them to last and get as much from them as I can. I have to say, I really think the Hovel is a tool that can do that.
Beautiful pieces of workmanship. My limited talents wouldn’t justify the purchase. I get tickled by Koda. He reminds me of when my children were small and telephones ☎️ were tethered to the wall. It seemed like they always wanted to demand my attention during an important call. Koda knows when your attention is fully occupied with something and he wants to recapture some of it.
I’m with the dog in the background - I found the plane demonstration agonizing! It’s a hard no for a pretty but ridiculous tool. I do want the Iris however.
I wish I was you my friend if that was agonising for you, you have lived a pretty sheltered life, which I envy. The Iris is awesome I use it all the time, as for the sharpener, I use nothing else for pastel pencils, it is by far the best tool I have to sharpen pastel pencils to a fine point without shattering loads of the core.
This is obviously a fine piece of art. Considering that they are tools for Art. But they would be Best suited as a gift for an architectural drawer for someone who is doing great at his job an is a well established business. It's not something I myself would own. Just too pricey for my tastes.. but they sure are beautiful ❤️💋
For me, these are conversation pieces, but functionally,, a little short of average I think. Money better spent on an exacto knife and a simple compass.
I think that was only because I used an unsharpened pencil a brand new one. I think we’re the Hovel shines is maintaining a sharp point to your pencil with little effort and hardly touching the barrel. It does take a while to whittle a completely unsharpened pencil, as it does with a craft knife, but I think the Hovel prevents a lot of waste from the pencil. When I am drawing and we CP artists always need a really sharp point to get into the tooth of the paper without damaging it, I use an ordinary sharpener just to refine the point and I might need to turn it two or three times, which is still a fair bit of the barrel, but with the Hovel, it’s real easy and like I say you can return a sharp point without even touching the barrel. But I completely agree with you, Koda has far too much to say for himself, I’m convinced when I make my videos he screams for help because he thinks I am talking to myself and showing pencils to nobody 😂😂😂
Personally I’d use a stanly knife, or other sharpener, to start a pencil off, and use this to refine the point, and shave it while working with it. I feel using it to start off a new unsharpened pencil is a waste of the blade - needlessly shortening its usefulness.
I completely agree with you, ordinarily that’s what I would use it for and I mentioned that in my written review, but when doing reviews I try to demonstrate the best and worst, the hardest and easiest etc, I think if I just refined a pencil core which you are bang on the money, that is where the Hovel really shines, someone would have said I should have tried an unsharpened pencil. Swings and roundabouts. I’ve learnt the hard way when doing reviews that I am not going to please everyone nor am I going to get every thing right but I try to make the reviews as detailed as I can and before I actually sit in front of my camera I spend about two days, anticipating what others would want to see the product do, writing a list of questions I would ask to see the product do and try to anticipate what you guys would like to see the product do
@@TheArtGearGuide I've watched a few reviews and your results seem to be so much better than many I've seen. Many seem to take a lot of wood off the pencil - which is fine if that's what you need, but your finish looked much more refined.
Some American guy reviewed this and was extremely negative about it, basically because it was expensive. He seemed to delight in breaking the pencil leads by sheer deliberate clumsiness. Like any hand tool it requires care and skill to achieve results. By contrast the usual pencil sharpener is basically a machine tool with no adjustment - idiot proof. What surprised me was how he didn’t have a single negative review. I haven’t splashed out on one yet but if it works on Conte pencils which seem required sandpaper (and I have never mastered this) I think it would be worth the money. Have you tried charcoal or similar?
It's made in china so even tho its looks great for someone with a disability I want to support workers outside of china, I know I know... but honestly for one year I want to buy stuff that's not made in china I dont care if it's made in any other country just not china....I was hoping really hoping it wasnt made in china😥I think the iris is fantastic idea but is it also made in china????
I understand what you mean, Ive never necessarily tried to exclude buying from a certain country but I do try to buy from small local family based businesses if I can. But it is absolutely your right not to bug from a certain country and I will double check with the company as to where the Iris is actually made and get back to you.
i'm sure there are buyers for this, but my life is too short to spend that much time sharpening the pencil using the sharpener that costs that much. i'll better stick to my brass sharpener by dux.
I tried this sharpener( used the friend’s one) and own the Caran’s dache pencil peeler, this one it’s just beautiful useless item, caran dache is far more better for pastels, also keep in mind peace of metal with it’s beautiful wooden case cost you more than 70 pound. With all the respect which I have for this channel, I didn’t find this review very useful may be because it was free, and if anyone out there have to pay more than 70 pound.
Perhaps you missed the part where I mentioned I contacted the company to purchase the Hovel. I have to say, I get very little in the way of free products to review, in fact, the last free product I received other than the Hovel was the Black Widow Monarch Pencils and the Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Markers. Every other product since then I have bought with my own money. As I mentioned in the video and wrote in the written review, I contacted this company because I was requested to review the Hovel by over 150 separate emails over the course of a year and a half. I reached out to the company so that I could purchase the Hovel directly from them and when I reach out to companies to purchase products for review it is because they normally have like a press pack of information about the product. I am all for accepting critiques regarding the reviews I upload, the audio is bad, or the video quality is bad, I made a mistake on information etc. When I have received critiques such as this in the past I have taken them on board and changed what I could in order to please. However, I will not have my integrity called into action. You have basically said I gave a good review because it was Free. You wouldn't be further from the truth and as I mention had you listened to what I said in the video or read what I wrote in the review, you would know I A) contacted the company because a significant amount of subscribers and viewers requested I review the product and B) I fully intended to pay for the Hovel. Again, in the review I mentioned on a few occasions that I didn't even know they were sending the Iris.
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Both of them are gorgeous. I do think that the Høvel, have to come and live with me at some point :D
Thank you so much for showing us these beauties :D
These have been advertised in my FaceBook feed for the past six or eight months. Thanks for the demo. I can tell that they everything that they are made out to be. You are so very fortunate to have been gifted a set. I would LOVE to have them but, sadly, just being a hobbyist with limited income, I can't possibly justify the expense.
Hi Bruce I have noticed seeing them on Facebook a lot, I thought it was just because I had reached out to them and obviously researched them as well, but they must just be running a marketing campaign at the minute.
What a lovely piece.
I'm a Philistine and use an electric helical sharpener.
This is the best way to spend time sharpening pencils rather than drawing.
I’m an artist working digitally and analogue. I use a very expensive French pastel pencil range. I have always used an exacto blade to sharpen them. It’s always been horrible results. Hovel seems like an answers to my prayers! It’s costly, but you do get what you pay for. For me, this is a solution to problems with trying and failing to find a sharpener that fits the pencil. Hovel makes that worry disappear, and to me that’s worth the money. Excellent review! Thanks very much for your insight 🧡
I really like the look of the iris, it's so shiny and fancy! The problem with a compass is the annoying hole that gets poked in the middle of the paper. The pencil plane is also really pretty but it looks like it would take an age to sharpen a pencil, lol.
It's pretty and I think it would be a lovely gift but too fiddly for me to use regularly. Btw my dog Penny was trying to get to your dog Koda lol!
😂😂😂 I knew when he started talking in the background anyone watching with a dog would have their little ears prick up, poor Penny. Koda was probably shouting for help to his fellow K9s in the art world “help me... this lunatic is back talking to himself in the living room, he scares me when he starts talking to himself and showing his pencils to nobody” 🤣😂🤣
These lovely products are good for just slowing down and enjoying the process of sharpening the pencil etc. I love the aesthetics of these items just fo sheer beauty. I think once one got used to using them there would be no more knarled pencils. Many thanks for sharing.
The Hovel pencil plane is a artwork on itself! And the Iris...it's amazing! Thanks for the review, much appreciated ❣️
That Iris is beautiful 🥰
At 24:12 I was expecting James bond to come into the seen🤣
Just love the gadget stuff that has a vintage look, I hope the brass is not just a coating with cheap metal underneath,
would be nice if they are solid quality brass,
They also would both look great in bronze
I would fill the numbers and measuring lines in with red or black acrylic paint to make them pop out ,
Absolutely beautiful pieces. Wouldn't they be gorgeous on the desk of an architect or illustrator or even a You Tube artist. 😁 What an air of panache. I looked up the prices and I'll just be buying a good electric one. I still don't know which one to get for colored pencils. Did you review electric sharpeners and I missed it? Probably did. Ahh well, so glad you are the owner of these two beauties. Love to the family. I know I am nobody to your daughter but I think of her. My daughter is your daughter. She is 38 now and she's beautiful and tough, but what a road we have been down. 💕🐕
Good and in depth review as always, I always enjoy watching your videos a lot!
The Høvel is certainly beautifully crafted. I don’t use pastel pencils and as long as I have a good hand crank sharpener it’s perfectly fine for me. If I need a super sharp point, I go with a very sharp razor blade and I’m fine too. Sure, if you get the wooden stand that goes with the Hovel it’s far easier and possibily gives you the control over every single atom of the pencil you are sharpening, but I won’t definitely consider this a “game changer”. A nice tool by the way, I wouldn’t mind to have it on my desk!
The concept makes sense. Dang it, now i want one. Id place it next to my other vintage hand planes.
Very beautiful and cool, have not seen these items before, thanks for the review!
I appreciate your videos, I truly do...but this time it took 11 minutes before you got to the point of sharpening. Could I kindly suggest even a 30 second intro that says for example: This is the sharpener, it works by running a razor blade over the pencil while safely protecting your fingers and do a quick few strokes, then go into the lengthy introduction. I have both arthritis and nerve damage in my hands and my right thumb is so distorted it is ugly and becomes very painful if I go over a couple hours with my pencils. I was excited to hear about this product, but I eventually just advanced it to where you started the demonstration. I hope you take this in the spirit it is given, you are such a nice young man and I love your accent that I would hate for you to think I am being mean spirited. I think my suggestion would increase the number of people who listen all the way through the video. I usually read your articles rather than watch the videos, but here I needed to see the example. I should win a prize for longest comment ever! Thanks!
Sorry my mistake I just assumed that the title Pencil Plane would explain what the product was.
I am familiar with planes, it was how you could plain a pencil without cutting your fingers off that I was interested in! I can't feel the ends of 5 of my fingers so I am super careful around sharp objects.
The sharpener would be ideal for delicate prismacolors and someone with patience.
Thanks for the review Harry! I remember Peter Draws having a very different experience with this sharpener, so it was interesting to hear yours.
Thanks Harry..great review...
Damn, Harry now I have to get one. Thanks I'm a nut for those kind of things
Both are beautiful but I doubt they are for practical use. More for decoration and therefore more of a gift item especially at the cost.
I think perhaps the Iris would fall into this category but definitely not the Hovel. The Hovel is an incredibly effective tool, when I very first seen them I thought the same as you, but using the Hovel was so easy.
For Pastel pencils I have used Stanly Knives and Craft Knives all of which make a mess of the barrel and it is very very easy to push a little too hard and snap the core. With the Hovel the blade protrudes as far as you allow it abs thus prevent the mess and cores snapping.
As for the price, again I thought the same as you, but if you look on Amazon or other places, to buy a really good sharpener, and I am only talking hand held sharpener, you can pay up to £30. Once you look for a good hand crank or electric sharpener you are then into even bigger money. My only issue with the electric sharpeners, and of course I haven’t used them all so can’t comment too much, but in my experience they really eat away at the pencil. With the Hovel you have the precision to simply refine the core to a sharp point without touching the wood barrel.
I completely agree that they are expensive, but as I said in my written review, how many times do we hear or say ourselves “they don’t make them they way they used to” or “They don’t build things to last any more”? I hear it and say it pretty often with almost everything. With these products they are going to last, they are not going to break, warp or anything like that and will probably be passed on to grandchildren. I love on the bread line financially speaking, living with our belts tightened so much it’s causing a hernia 😂😂, but if I am using pencils like the Luminance, Lightfast etc all expensive pencils, I want them to last and get as much from them as I can. I have to say, I really think the Hovel is a tool that can do that.
Beautiful pieces of workmanship. My limited talents wouldn’t justify the purchase. I get tickled by Koda. He reminds me of when my children were small and telephones ☎️ were tethered to the wall. It seemed like they always wanted to demand my attention during an important call. Koda knows when your attention is fully occupied with something and he wants to recapture some of it.
I’m with the dog in the background - I found the plane demonstration agonizing! It’s a hard no for a pretty but ridiculous tool. I do want the Iris however.
I wish I was you my friend if that was agonising for you, you have lived a pretty sheltered life, which I envy. The Iris is awesome I use it all the time, as for the sharpener, I use nothing else for pastel pencils, it is by far the best tool I have to sharpen pastel pencils to a fine point without shattering loads of the core.
id love to have just to put it on my desk and look pretty.
This is obviously a fine piece of art. Considering that they are tools for Art. But they would be Best suited as a gift for an architectural drawer for someone who is doing great at his job an is a well established business. It's not something I myself would own. Just too pricey for my tastes.. but they sure are beautiful ❤️💋
For me, these are conversation pieces, but functionally,, a little short of average I think. Money better spent on an exacto knife and a simple compass.
Lol. I agree with your puppy. That was alot of work to sharpen a pencil O_o so it is a no for me. But thank you for review of these. I was curious.
I think that was only because I used an unsharpened pencil a brand new one. I think we’re the Hovel shines is maintaining a sharp point to your pencil with little effort and hardly touching the barrel.
It does take a while to whittle a completely unsharpened pencil, as it does with a craft knife, but I think the Hovel prevents a lot of waste from the pencil. When I am drawing and we CP artists always need a really sharp point to get into the tooth of the paper without damaging it, I use an ordinary sharpener just to refine the point and I might need to turn it two or three times, which is still a fair bit of the barrel, but with the Hovel, it’s real easy and like I say you can return a sharp point without even touching the barrel.
But I completely agree with you, Koda has far too much to say for himself, I’m convinced when I make my videos he screams for help because he thinks I am talking to myself and showing pencils to nobody 😂😂😂
I appreciate your thorough review as always. Thanks for bringing it to our attention but it's a no for me.
Nice paperweight. I'll stick with ones that work. I'd rather spend my time with the point to the paper.
Personally I’d use a stanly knife, or other sharpener, to start a pencil off, and use this to refine the point, and shave it while working with it. I feel using it to start off a new unsharpened pencil is a waste of the blade - needlessly shortening its usefulness.
I completely agree with you, ordinarily that’s what I would use it for and I mentioned that in my written review, but when doing reviews I try to demonstrate the best and worst, the hardest and easiest etc, I think if I just refined a pencil core which you are bang on the money, that is where the Hovel really shines, someone would have said I should have tried an unsharpened pencil. Swings and roundabouts. I’ve learnt the hard way when doing reviews that I am not going to please everyone nor am I going to get every thing right but I try to make the reviews as detailed as I can and before I actually sit in front of my camera I spend about two days, anticipating what others would want to see the product do, writing a list of questions I would ask to see the product do and try to anticipate what you guys would like to see the product do
@@TheArtGearGuide I've watched a few reviews and your results seem to be so much better than many I've seen. Many seem to take a lot of wood off the pencil - which is fine if that's what you need, but your finish looked much more refined.
The Iris is nice. Would be a lovely gift for Norman Foster or a bougie design student. Is it manufactured in Britain?
Some American guy reviewed this and was extremely negative about it, basically because it was expensive. He seemed to delight in breaking the pencil leads by sheer deliberate clumsiness. Like any hand tool it requires care and skill to achieve results. By contrast the usual pencil sharpener is basically a machine tool with no adjustment - idiot proof. What surprised me was how he didn’t have a single negative review. I haven’t splashed out on one yet but if it works on Conte pencils which seem required sandpaper (and I have never mastered this) I think it would be worth the money. Have you tried charcoal or similar?
It's made in china so even tho its looks great for someone with a disability I want to support workers outside of china, I know I know... but honestly for one year I want to buy stuff that's not made in china I dont care if it's made in any other country just not china....I was hoping really hoping it wasnt made in china😥I think the iris is fantastic idea but is it also made in china????
I understand what you mean, Ive never necessarily tried to exclude buying from a certain country but I do try to buy from small local family based businesses if I can. But it is absolutely your right not to bug from a certain country and I will double check with the company as to where the Iris is actually made and get back to you.
i'm sure there are buyers for this, but my life is too short to spend that much time sharpening the pencil using the sharpener that costs that much. i'll better stick to my brass sharpener by dux.
I'm afraid it would really aggravate my carpel tunnel. Heavy sigh 😢
I tried this sharpener( used the friend’s one) and own the Caran’s dache pencil peeler, this one it’s just beautiful useless item, caran dache is far more better for pastels, also keep in mind peace of metal with it’s beautiful wooden case cost you more than 70 pound.
With all the respect which I have for this channel, I didn’t find this review very useful may be because it was free, and if anyone out there have to pay more than 70 pound.
Perhaps you missed the part where I mentioned I contacted the company to purchase the Hovel. I have to say, I get very little in the way of free products to review, in fact, the last free product I received other than the Hovel was the Black Widow Monarch Pencils and the Spectrum Noir Tri-Blend Markers. Every other product since then I have bought with my own money.
As I mentioned in the video and wrote in the written review, I contacted this company because I was requested to review the Hovel by over 150 separate emails over the course of a year and a half. I reached out to the company so that I could purchase the Hovel directly from them and when I reach out to companies to purchase products for review it is because they normally have like a press pack of information about the product.
I am all for accepting critiques regarding the reviews I upload, the audio is bad, or the video quality is bad, I made a mistake on information etc. When I have received critiques such as this in the past I have taken them on board and changed what I could in order to please. However, I will not have my integrity called into action. You have basically said I gave a good review because it was Free. You wouldn't be further from the truth and as I mention had you listened to what I said in the video or read what I wrote in the review, you would know I A) contacted the company because a significant amount of subscribers and viewers requested I review the product and B) I fully intended to pay for the Hovel. Again, in the review I mentioned on a few occasions that I didn't even know they were sending the Iris.
The iris is ugly streaked at the back, I don't think that is a life time product.