Thank you, Erika!
The next step is to get it in photoshop and get some pixels wrecked...
I will definitely create an article the baby pencils.
For the sharpening... It depends on the purpose of the pencil, for example, you have an 8B pencil in your hand, really soft graphite. If you sharpen that with normal sharpener you will need to do it again in 5 minutes or less, especially if you put pressure on it to get darker values. Also, you get more coverage with knife sharpened pencils because the surface of the tip is longer. If you decrease the angle of the tip to the paper you get broader strokes. I use knife to shapen my soft graphite pencils, for hard pencils like 2H or H, I can use the normal sharpener cause we're not using these as much. Not all artists use a knife. Allen Williams uses the Boston sharpener. It's a personal thing. For now, this works for me, but if I get my hand on one of these Boston things I would definitely use it. :P
as you can see on the second picture, one of the pencils is not manually sharpened :P