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Daily discussion thread: 🐨 Saturday, May 25, 2024 (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by Seagoon_@aussie.zone to c/melbourne@aussie.zone

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[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (5 children)

I'm taking the pressure off. No art, just sharpening pencils. That's my hobby now. /s

It also leads nicely into whittling and woodwork. If I had a slab of wood, glue and sandpaper I could even carve a handle into one end and make my own sharpening sandpaper block. I have some fence staples to hold the paper layers on. And then that could lead into making one for knives or making strops...

But no more physical hobbies or tools. I just run out of energy and drop them.

[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Have you found this guy on YouTube? Alphonso Dunn He also likes a whittled pencil. Also, he's got some good tutorial type videos.

[–] melbaboutown@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago

Nice, I'll take a look

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