+ICHTHYS Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Where can I buy small pencils (like from putt-putt golf) and small pencil sharpners online? I can't find any local and my Google skills must be lacking because I am striking out. Quote Link to comment
+Ballooner Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I steal mine from the golf pro shop Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 If you have a Staples or Office Depot, they sell the golf pencils. Quote Link to comment
+Zzyzx Road Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Sharpeners, same place...I am using all of my daughter's school pencils - too short for her to use well, and they sometimes have an erasre left. I just make sure I don't use the ones with her name on them! Quote Link to comment
+ICHTHYS Posted January 19, 2006 Author Share Posted January 19, 2006 Staples! Great I have one of those here, but never thought to check them. Thanks. Quote Link to comment
Koosh Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Tis easy, just take a regular yellow pencil and cut it with a sharp knife. I do it like this, get a folding knife and close it about halfway. Put the pencil on the inside of the hinge, and then just push down firmly on the blade, as if you were closing it. It'll cut the pencil cleanly every time. And as for sharpers, these little guys are perfect. Get them almost anywhere, grocery stores, office stores, stationary stores. Quote Link to comment
+Zzyzx Road Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Some places like school supply houses (ours is GW School Supply) have bulk bags of 50 or so of the little sharpeners...or they are really cheap - like buy a bagfull... Quote Link to comment
+Ambrosia Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 Tis easy, just take a regular yellow pencil and cut it with a sharp knife. I do it like this, get a folding knife and close it about halfway. Put the pencil on the inside of the hinge, and then just push down firmly on the blade, as if you were closing it. It'll cut the pencil cleanly every time. And as for sharpers, these little guys are perfect. Get them almost anywhere, grocery stores, office stores, stationary stores. I do that too, but I've found the golf pencils to work the best. Regular pencils tend to have their lead break or fall out much easier than golf pencils. I don't think I've ever seen a golf pencil lead fall out. If you cut them in half, they are the perfect size for a film canister. Quote Link to comment
+Monkey Toes Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I steal mine from the golf pro shop I steal mine from the Putt-Putt. Quote Link to comment
+Night Stalker Posted January 19, 2006 Share Posted January 19, 2006 I use a saw and cut up normal size pencils into smalled ones. Sometimes I get into trouble if they happen to be one of my daughter's. Quote Link to comment
+MtnGoat50 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I think I've tried all of the above at one time or another. I remember getting some golf pencils and thinking it would be neat to have pencils with my geocaching name on them, so thats what I did. It makes a simple, cheap and useful signature item. I leave a few in each cache I visit. Quote Link to comment
+GIDEON-X Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 (edited) The little sharpeners I found at the 99-cent store they came ten on a card............. Edited January 20, 2006 by GIDEON-X Quote Link to comment
+PDOP's Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I think I've tried all of the above at one time or another. I remember getting some golf pencils and thinking it would be neat to have pencils with my geocaching name on them, so thats what I did. It makes a simple, cheap and useful signature item. I leave a few in each cache I visit. I've been looking for these too. How much were they? Quote Link to comment
+StarBrand Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I think I've tried all of the above at one time or another. I remember getting some golf pencils and thinking it would be neat to have pencils with my geocaching name on them, so thats what I did. It makes a simple, cheap and useful signature item. I leave a few in each cache I visit. Me too Can't remember for the life of me where I orded them from but I know it was like $37.50 for 750 of them. Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 The little sharpeners I found at the 99-cent store they came ten on a card............. But how much were they? Quote Link to comment
+MtnGoat50 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 PDOP's Posted on Jan 20 2006, 07:56 AM I've been looking for these too. How much were they? I paid $42.50 (including shipping), from Write-on-pencils.com, for 5 gross (720) which was the typical minimum every where I looked. This was the best price I could find on the web. I believe it was about $10 more to add erasers. It looks like StarBrand found a better deal I'd be curious where his came from, although I don't think I'll be needing any very soon. Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 at Oriental Trading Company...$7.95 for 72, they don't require a sharpenr and they have caps (which save wear and tear on ziplock bags in caches). I buy lots of stuff from these folks for my classroom and for caching, and they frequently offer free shipping if you place an order for $60...which will set you up with pencils and swag for a while... jamie Quote Link to comment
+sbell111 Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 at Oriental Trading Company...$7.95 for 72, they don't require a sharpenr and they have caps (which save wear and tear on ziplock bags in caches). ... What do you do, saw them in half? Quote Link to comment
+nfa Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 at Oriental Trading Company...$7.95 for 72, they don't require a sharpenr and they have caps (which save wear and tear on ziplock bags in caches). ... What do you do, saw them in half? huh? I don't understand the saw comment They don't require sharpeners because when the lead in front is dull, you take it out, poke it in the back, and a new lead with a sharp point comes out. They don't tear up ziplocks as much as regular pencils do becuase they have a cap so the sharp end doesn't poke the corner of the bag. jamie Quote Link to comment
koz Posted January 20, 2006 Share Posted January 20, 2006 I steal mine from the golf pro shop I steal mine from the Putt-Putt. i steal mine from lottory stands Quote Link to comment
+Beffums Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 oriental trading (see above) also sells large bags of decent pencil sharpeners for cheap. We got a bag of about 60 sharpeners for about $3. they were small enough that I put together an altoids tin cache (in several bigs to prevent rust - relax) that had the log, the "this is geocaching" a golf pencil, the pencil sharpener, and the rare earth magnet, and still had enough spare space for several spare baggies just in case (ok, I'm water-paranoid). Only problem I had was that the sharpener and the rare earth magnet "liked" each other. For the pencils, if you are not into thievery, then Staples or Office Depot or the like is the best I've found. At staples, 144 golf pencils was about $5. (but they aren't the really really cool personalized ones above) Quote Link to comment
+The Roaming Gnome Posted January 21, 2006 Share Posted January 21, 2006 putt-putt Quote Link to comment
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