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Spent $60 on a 'precision' eraser shield and it was a total joke
I was working on a tight floor plan detail last week and my normal eraser kept smudging the lines around it. I saw this fancy brass eraser shield online, advertised for 'architectural precision,' and figured it was worth a shot. The thing showed up and the cutouts were so small and oddly shaped I couldn't even fit my pencil lead through them to see what I was erasing. I spent more time trying to line it up than I would have just being careful with a regular eraser. Has anyone found an erasing tool that actually works for tiny, crowded areas on vellum?
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olivia_chen351mo ago
Total waste of money. Those tiny slots are useless for actual drafting work. I just use the corner of a regular plastic eraser now, you get way more control. Sharpening the eraser to a point with a knife works better than any shield I've tried.
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rowan6661mo ago
Man that's so frustrating, I've been burned by those fancy tools before. What kind of cutouts did it even have? Were they like weird little slots or just circles that were too small? I'm trying to picture how a design that bad gets sold as a precision tool.
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