So scraping the paint off from under the blade was a worthwhile hack. When the KUM Stenographer was painted it was a piece of junk, but a $1 piece of junk. The KUM One Hole or Stenographer is another. Single hole long point sharpeners can be an exercise in frustration.
But this IS a $20 sharpener and as such it should JUST work. If this weren’t a $20 sharpener I’d fiddle around with it and attempt a scrape of the paint. I contacted Blackwing directly and they sent me a replacement blade. While my blade was sharp and didn’t break points it sharpened to a stumpy concave point. Sometimes a stropping revitalized dulled blades and sometimes it didn’t. The sharpener often didn’t work due to blades dulled by shipping the sharpeners loose in a large box. (Check out Brad’s review here.) This reminds me of the Pollux when it first arrived on the US shores, ahh so long ago in more innocent times. How does it work? If you get a good one, great. The BWOSLPS combines the shavings collection and sharpener all in one. Even better is a mint tin that contains a sharpener- as it can have some weight but also have something moving about inside. I’ve always been a fan of having a dual purpose fidget tool- a pencil sharpener or eraser makes a great option. That solid feeling makes me think of fidget toys and other detritus made to carry about with you that have no other purpose than to weigh down the pocket or to play with when thinking. Can anyone really argue that it isn’t? Hex and knurled and machined it’s all the things I love in a pencil or pen. This is a sharpener I never felt I needed to order.
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