Designer: Makers Cabinet
Materials: Solid brass
Origin: Designed in the UK, Made in Japan.

Høvel is a completely reimagined pencil sharpener—a precision pencil plane that lets you shape your pencil to any point you desire. Its innovative design prevents lead breakage, unlike traditional twist sharpeners.

About Makers Cabinet

In 2017, three designers left art school with a simple frustration: the tools they used every day were disposable, forgettable, and unworthy of the work they were made for.

So they set out to make something different. Not just better tools, but tools that felt like they belonged in your hand. Objects with enough honesty in their making that you'd want to keep them, repair them, and eventually pass them on.

Makers Cabinet believes the objects around you shape how you think and feel. A well-made tool changes the experience of using it — it slows you down in the right way, makes you more deliberate, more present. There is joy in that. And there is beauty in it too.

Every Makers Cabinet tool begins with a question: what would this look like if it were made to last a lifetime?

Hovel Pencil Plane