Answer (1 of 7): I use an x-acto knife because I find sharpeners break the lead. I remember finding a sign taped up in my local art store a number of years ago stating that “pencil sharpeners send spiral fractures up the graphite of the pencil”. I can't speak to the veracity of this statement, bu
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