I grew up with the one on the right, and taught with the one on the left. The wall-crank one was better: it takes any size pencil, even the fat red ones, it’s quieter, and it gives you a nice long break over by the coat closet rather than <5 seconds up front at the teacher’s desk.
Yeah, I absolutely grew up with that one on the left…
I think I bought the one on the left at some point in my life.
Thankfully the one on the right looks like it pre-dates the ones we used in elementary school…
The one on the right looks fancier than the ones we had in elementary school
They were manual sharpners that had this handle you would spin clockwise.
Definitely those were in every classroom when I was little, but my dad had one of these bad boys at home, I remember the weird ears things on top.https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/de84e279-3106-42b0-b17c-fe61283e73fb.webp
Maybe that upload didn’t work? https://2.bp.blogspot.com/_5u-TAdbgVIw/TT7gIPo5ppI/AAAAAAAAAac/TYnIyahumvk/s1600/DSCN5578.JPG
I would just feed pencils into it until they were tiny stubs.
That’s a risk you run when making a fun pencil sharpener…
I grew up with the one on the right, and taught with the one on the left. The wall-crank one was better: it takes any size pencil, even the fat red ones, it’s quieter, and it gives you a nice long break over by the coat closet rather than <5 seconds up front at the teacher’s desk.