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Why a Minneapolis neighborhood sharpens a giant pencil every year
Residents will gather Saturday in a scenic Minneapolis neighborhood for an annual ritual — the sharpening of a gigantic No. 2 ...
20-foot-tall pencil gets its annual sharpening
When is a pencil not just a pencil? When it’s on John and Amy Higgins’ lawn across from Lake of the Isles, is 20 feet tall ...
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Woodturning a Vase (Wood & Pencil Combination)
In this video I make a vase using colored pencils. I thought quite a bit whether to post this video or not, but here it is. The wood piece ended up looking pretty bad.
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Introducing a New Way to Make Pencils Woodworking Project
How to make 6-sided solid wood pencils. A brand new jig and technique invented by Andrew Klein that allows anybody with a few basic woodworking tools to make hexagon pencils out of scrap wood.