That pencilpoint sharpener looks like an impressive beast...
Should you ever decide to take the chance of getting conned, and revisit the "Stewart" pencil pointer, please do shoot a short video of it working.
Jan, I have no need of going back in there anytime in the foreseeable future, and we both know of my seriously limited ability to put videos up on here, so I wonder if you might be placated to some extent by a couple of views while the "Stewart" was under construction?
If that may be the case, then I'll hope you can enjoy the following:




These photos were fairly late phase assembly and finishing. I likely have some earlier phase photos as well, and will post some of them up if I stumble across them. There were many other machines and mechanisms that I created, greatly modified, or otherwise worked on while there, so if there is any interest in such strange machines, I could post some of those photos as well.