That is very true. I have accidentally ruined a few kens doing the sharpener method. Use sandpaper instead.
Tried it once. If you want your spike to cone out looking like a crisp, sharpened pencil tip then that's what you'll get. @Allison Koenig's idea probably will work best, especially if you usually glue the spikes on your damas. It helps but eventually the glued spikes will dull down too, a fine grit sandpaper to smooth it all back into shape will be better before you glue it back up again.
you can use a pencil sharpener, you just have to sharpen at a certain angle, otherwise your spike will end up looking like a pencil. I used to use one before I got sandpaper
you have to use a hand pencil sharpener not one of the cranking ones, that sweets tutorial is wack. The spikes come out way too long with the mechanical kind. That being said, I still just prefer sand paper.
It's a really bad construction joke I was pulling. I was hoping that someone had heard it before. When someone is new on the job/new to the trait, they ask them to grab this "material" stretcher if something was cut too short. Because the person is new they look for this stretchier that doesnt exist. And that's the joke. For example I'm a LV electricitan and when we get new apprentices we will ask them to go grab the "cable" stretcher to see if they will fall for it and waste time looking for it.
i work in kitchen and we do similar things, i got the joke right away. i usually send new guys to get me a left handed spatula or the ice mix from the restaurant across the street
I work on natural gas pipelines and we get kids with this ALL the time and it is hilarious. "Hey man, can you go in the back of that truck and grab the pipe stretcher, it should be beneath the copper magnets?" Twenty minutes later they walk over all confused.