Carbon Hill, Ohio (AP) -- If there's one thing Paul Johnson knows, it's how to keep things from becoming dull.

The Ohio man collects pencil sharpeners and has so many he recently had to expand the museum of the little gizmos that he opened five years ago.

The 83-year-old former minister now has 3,200 pencil sharpeners housed in a shed on his property in Carbon Hill, 52 miles southeast of Columbus.

Johnson's wife had thought he might like collecting little metal cars, so she bought two for him after he retired a quarter century ago. But he focused instead on the pencil sharpeners built into the cars.

He can now sharpen writing implements with everything from the Eiffel Tower to a gorilla head.

Johnson explains his hobby as "something to do."

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