{"id":5915,"date":"2011-10-28T06:26:54","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T01:10:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-02-07T16:28:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T23:28:16","slug":"alvin-kum-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/alvin-kum-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin KUM Long Point Pencil Sharpener"},"content":{"rendered":"

The iconic battery-powered Panasonic KP-4A, my previous favorite pencil sharpener, is no longer sold in the US. As it happens, I had been growing increasingly disenchanted by the noise and poor job the device sometimes provides. So I started researching to see what was out there in the manual small sharpener space. After ordering about six different models, I settled on the KUM Long Point Pencil Sharpener.<\/p>\n

It’s different than other sharpeners in two respects. First, it has two holes: #1, labeled as such, trims the wooden barrel, and #2 hones the point. It also has an automatic brake built-in so you don’t waste time and lead after you’ve achieved a perfect point. Besides being silent and great fun to use, it produces a fantastically good point. There’s also a nice clear lift-up lid to easily empty shavings.
\n\"shaving
\nI’m not the first to recommend this, as it turns out Clive Thompson fell in love with the tool long before I made the discovery, calling it “the best pencil sharpener I’ve ever used in my life”. Mark Frauenfelder\u00a0featured Thompson’s love-in on Boing Boing<\/a> earlier this year, with not one but two videos in which the sharpener struts its stuff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dual pencil sharpener<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9923,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions\/9923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}