[DanielDudley]

Yeah. I sharpen a carpenter's pencil to resemble a marking knife. I'm not going to say the guy is clueless, but anyone who feels compelled to make the comment FOAD about pencil sharpening needs an attitude adjustment. A marking knife, utility knife or exacto is what you use for accurate marking. A pencil sharpened like that will wear off the point on the first mark.

A knife will make hundreds, if not thousands of accurate marks and lines, to well under the hundredth of an inch, and a pencil sharpened like a marking knife can sharpen itself while drawing straight lines against a square or ruler, and there is a specific technique used to do that. Draw one line down, one line up, Flip the pencil and repeat seemingly ad infinitum. When you see how the pencil wears from using this technique, it will further inform you as to how to sharpen a pencil for marking and drawing lines.

OCD can be compelling, but it is often uninformed. Enlightenment requires willingness, not willfulness.