Product Description:
ALMOST GAVE UP: Over a decade ago I made a little Field Notes pencil sharpener. It was white with an olive imprint of the Field Notes wordmark logo. Simple plastic. I blasted through the couple hundred I had, and went back to re-order them, and they were discontinued or some shit. Which was kind of confusing. The world doesn’t need plastic pencil sharpeners, suddenly? So I went searching, hitting up all the usual suspect promo sources, and got doors slammed in my face over and over. So I gave up, a bit defeated.

Some months ago I was lurking around the dark corner of eBay, and came across some government surplus pencil sharpeners at a helluva price. I dropped in a shitwhack of them, got them out to Portland, then went and found a local pad printer to hit them a couple times with a little DDC ink. Of course, I wish I could’ve found them in orange, but yellow was the next best color.

They turned out great! I mean, it’s a pencil sharpener, y’know? And that’s nothing to write home about. But you can’t write home without a sharp pencil.

DDC THUNDERCLAP!!!

And that’s what we’re offering here. A 2-pack, just a weird glimpse into how to procure things, hit them with a little ink and give them new life. Stay sharp!

Product Details:
01. Simple, plastic pencil sharpener, in a set of two.
02. 1-color pad print of “Burly Black” on top and end of “Yonder Yellow” plastic sharpener body.
03. 1" (W) × 5/8" (H) × 3/8" (D) in dimension.
04. The product of a lucky eBay search!
05. Yellow. But the good kind.
06. Manufactured by some government vendor, somewhere. Who knows. And we’re betting, made in the U.S.A., like all the other government surplus stuff.
07. In stock forever.