The pigment bit in the colored pencil has a waxy base that will build up and jam/get stuck in the sharpener. Graphite doesn’t. It can be used as a lubricant in some non sexy situations.
Call it “the self de-waxing pencil sharpener”, maybe put a battery in it and program a self cleaning/de-waxing cycle when a dedicated sensor detects wax build-up.
The “lead” is often softer and prone to breaking off, leaving a little cone of lead plugging the end of the sharpener needing to be cleared out by opening it up. A pencil sharpener for coloured pencils sharpens at a steeper angle for this reason
Seriously though, is there any reason to disallow colored pencils in a pencil sharpener? I can’t think of any problem they might cause.
The pigment bit in the colored pencil has a waxy base that will build up and jam/get stuck in the sharpener. Graphite doesn’t. It can be used as a lubricant in some
non sexysituations.nonsense, picking a lock is extremely sexy
Sounds like bad design to me.
Free to come up with a better one 😉
Call it “the self de-waxing pencil sharpener”, maybe put a battery in it and program a self cleaning/de-waxing cycle when a dedicated sensor detects wax build-up.
Or use one which uses a rotating shiv instead of a grating one. Never had wax buildup in a manual sharpener.
You have no idea how fantastic the oblivity of your reply is.
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The “lead” is often softer and prone to breaking off, leaving a little cone of lead plugging the end of the sharpener needing to be cleared out by opening it up. A pencil sharpener for coloured pencils sharpens at a steeper angle for this reason