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Rees also just penned a book about his craft, How to Sharpen Pencils, and is wrapping up his book tour. David Rees, author of the new book 'How to Sharpen Pencils' shares his equipment and technique, using Palomino Blackwing pencils. You may have even seen this logo on our products: David Thomas Rees (/ r i s / 'reece' born June 22, 1972) is a humorist and cultural critic.He first rose to prominence as a cartoonist whose best-known work combined bland clip art with 'trash talk'. AMA Request: David Rees, Artisanal Pencil Sharpener. We’ve always been ardent supporters of the no. AMA Request: David Rees, Artisanal Pencil Sharpener. So I thought it was cool to combine those two technologies, like a really old method of communication, the pencil, and a really new method of communication-social networking and the Internet.” It’s like he gets us. Because pencils are really kind of the opposite of the Internet, anyways.
#DAVID REISS ARTISANAL PENCIL SHARPENER MANUAL#
“I thought it would be cool to use the Internet to send people pencils in the mail. Deep in New York’s Hudson River Valley, craftsman David Reesthe world’s number one 2 pencil sharpenerstill practices the age-old art of manual pencil sharpening. 2 wooden pencils again, it really made me kinda despise mechanical pencils and the people who use mechanical pencils, and the people who brag about how their mechanical pencil never needs sharpening.
It’ll make you want to become best friends with him. How did Rees get into this rare profession? Check out the video below from Paper magazine. Just as that venture is surely no joke, John Hodgman assures, us in his foreword to the book. Rees has been making waves in the pencil world since opening his Artisanal Pencil Sharpening business in 2010. Rees also showcases his craft for parties, festivals, and even cruise lines. David Rees was kind enough to send us a review copy of his new book through his publisher, and we were eager to devour and review it.
2 pencils that are shaved down and encased in plastic tubing by Rees himself (each pencil is $15). So when we heard that political cartoonist David Rees would be at Pete’s Candy Store in Brooklyn on February 13th offering tutorials on artisanal pencil sharpening, we thought it was a. His business, appropriately named Artisanal Pencil Sharpening, offers no. The lost art of sharpening pencils has been rekindled, more so set afire, by David Rees-who traded his political clip-art-cartoon career to become a pencil-sharpening craftsman.
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