Pencil Sharpener with X-acto Blade

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So, with three kids at home, I'm always getting requests for pencils or to sharpen them. My kids seem to have a knack for making pencil sharpeners disappear, so I decided to take matters into my own hands and print some out. However, all the designs I came across required either the sharpener or the blade of the sharpener, neither of which helped me much. I picked up my trusty X-Acto knife and started manually sharpening a pencil, and suddenly it hit me - I had a few spare X-Acto blades with broken tips that would be perfect for this project. So, I spent the day designing a pencil sharpener that would use an X-Acto blade. All you'll need to print out this design is one X-Acto blade #112, two M3 nuts, and two M3 x 8 screws. I have to admit that my design isn't the smoothest pencil sharpener out there, and I did notice a big difference between an original sharpener blade and an X-Acto blade. The original sharpener blade only has a bevel on one side, while the X-Acto blade has one on both sides. I tried tilting the X-Acto blade to get it at a similar angle to the original blades, but it took several attempts just to get a half-decent job done.