Possible Clues:

• Generous sort welcoming writer in Whetstone?
• Implement to make a pointed tip, of a pencil perhaps
• Whetstone, e.g
• Confine dons giving person bladed item
• Steel pans beginning to rattle here, confusedly
• Knife or pencil improver
• Distributor carrying writing implement that's wielded to make a point?
• It makes a point or edge
• Device for making a point?
• Docked dog new to Queen, a type of pointer?