Features:

  • Premium quality sharpener ensures you never have a "dull" moment in the office, at school, or around the house!
  • Metal sharpener with secure screw-on lid prevents accidental opening
  • Assorted colors adds a fun surprise to every order
  • Blister card of 1 sharpener
  • Each sharpener is compact and portable; perfect for a pencil case and work-station
Buy one, don't even think about it

Sharpens pencils crazy good. I used other brand that I find in art stores and some usually do a good job but this one just blew them away. Would definitely recommend, because it's so inexpensive too :D I uploaded an example of the average sharpened pencil after using this sharpener.

Convenient and efficient little sharpener

We have an old fashioned hand crank sharpener mounted in the garage but I never bother using it for just one or two pencils which is all I ever really need to sharpen at once. So I usually wind up using pencils that have a very dull point. I happened to notice this little item as I was filling a recent shopping cart and added it without thinking too much about it. Now that I have one, I think I need to get several more to keep in desk or pencil drawers in various rooms. This sharpens all types of pencils including my fabric marking pencils, nail whiteners, watercolor pencils, eyeliners and, of course, the common # 2 lead pencil. The cap screws on securely so I don’t have to worry about it coming undone and creating a mess if thrown into a drawer without being emptied.

Amazing!

When I bought this little German sharpener here on Amazon many crossword puzzles ago, I skipped writing a review for such a small, inexpensive item... but you know what? Using it last night for a couple of seconds, putting another perfect point on a pencil, I realized that this is absolutely the best functioning pencil sharpener I have ever owned! No fancy motor or anything... it just does what it's supposed to do, perfectly, every time! :-))

Staedtler vs Prismacolor Scholar manual pencil sharpener comparison/review

A terrific, well-built, and easy-to-use manual pencil sharpener. I prefer it to the Prismacolor Scholar Colored Pencil Sharpener (at about the same price) because the Staedtler has a screw-on lid whereas the Prismacolor Scholar has a snap-on lid. More importantly, with the Staedtler you can hold the pencil in one hand and simply rotate the sharpener, rather than trying to spin the pencil. This makes manual sharpening much quicker and easier. Both units do an equally good job of sharpening pencils.

One of the best little manual sharpeners around

This is one of the best manual pencil sharpeners around. What I like about it is: 1) The all metal design of the sharpener "body." It sharpens because the metal blade is screwed into a metal body that holds the blade in place against the pencil while sharpening. Other manual sharpeners have a metal blade screwed into a plastic body. With use, the blade in plastic body sharpeners always loosens because the plastic eventually wears away around the screw that holds the blade in place, and, 2) The plastic shaving holder screws on and has enough threads in the top to keep the container closed while you are holding the sharpener. Most other manual sharpeners of this style snap on. They inevitably pop loose during sharpening spilling shavings everywhere. The screw on body is just a better more secure design. I purchased my first in college during a drawing class. I just needed something I could afford to sharpen pencils. It lasted under constant use through college. In fact, it lasted for years until recently, when my children got hold of it. The sharpener still sharpens, but the sharpener body broke free of the cap rendering the shaving container useless – so I bought another. It works just as well. Today, I am purchasing 4 more: one for each of my twins and 2 to hide away, because I have come to understand that my children can, and will, break anything that is not made completely of metal.

Great! Sharper than electrics. It's pricey and you can NOT chose COLOR. You get one only.

Great! Sharper than electrics. It's pricey and you can NOT chose COLOR. You get ONE only. Don't think, buy. Overlook the above annoyances of price per unit and color options, because it's life changing. Like a good pencil BAG. ( I'm on my 3rd pencil bag this semester. I keep losing them. ) Note: if this was cheaper just a little cheaper I'd buy more of them. As it is, I'm buying another 3 sharpeners. Prince has been hanging firm at the square root of sixteen dollars since the summer. When I am in the ZONE with math or science (probably anything, I only take science and math), i need one always in reach. If you told me to chose between a calculator or a pencil sharpener on a test (idea being i'd still be able to write with the single pencil but it would be dull.) I would chose the pencil sharpener, pretty sure. Yes I would. And this would be the one! Other essentials: Here's my back to school shopping list. Get 3 times the notebooks and 3 times the pencils listed below. Should keep you for ONE semester only, then buy more pencils and spirals. Two pencil bags (different colors) and a pencil sharpener (nobody cares about color unless you want to keep track of who's is who's, so I do care. (Get a bright bag, so you can find it easily in your backpack.) Add some sticky notes to mark pages in books and note books and you will make the ragged test taking, diploma seeking, strung out all night student studier happy and productive. If that person is ypurself then all the better. (Don't forget to write your name and phone number on the pencil bag!) REMEMBER: Pencil bag, Pencils, Sharpener, Notebooks... and done. If you need a backpack grab a Jan sport Big Student. They are BIG and reasonably priced. BIG is key here. Need to fit lots of books and spiral notebooks. And folders. Yes you will need some folders. I do not have a suggestion for that. But here are the four things I mentioned and I HIGHLY recommend. Spirals: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001E6C08E/ref=crt_ewc_img_dp_1?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Pencil Bag: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07F2S2YG7/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=A2KYRCU2XBNR0X&psc=1 Sharpener: (this one) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D2PTCH8/ref=crt_ewc_title_dp_2?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER Pencils (Ticonderoga, no other) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006CSPZK4/ref=ox_sc_act_title_4?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1

Great

One of the best sharpeners I've used. Great quality the actual sharpener is made of metal rather than parts of it and rest plastic. The container is plastic

Okay for Colored pencils too!

My wife got this for sharpening colored pencils and so far it worked well. No broken colors. It's only beem day 1, though, so we'll see how it goes. The container is kinda small so you have to empty it out every 4 pencils or so. All in all, not bad for a manual pencil sharpener.

Top Quality, Manages to sharpen the cheapest Dollar Store Pencils without breaking them

As a child I was always a fan of Staedtler stationary items like their Noris pencils , fountain pens , mechanical pencils, drum and metal sharpeners etc .. I mean back in the day i distinctly remember that having Staedtler stuff was almost a status symbol . Hence when I saw that the Staedtler Drum sharpener who's design hasnt really changed since the 1990's from my school days - I was super excited to get them from my 3 Y.O son as well who just started going to Pre-K. USING IT - While I might be a bit nostalgic about this sharpener, but in reality it is no slouch . Even after all these years this sharpener met all our expectations in quickly sharpening pencils with little effort to a needle point without breaking the lead .. just the way I remember from school - If you've ever tried cheap dollar store pencils before , then you know how hard is to sharpen them without breaking their lead several times .. this sharpener has no issues dealing with cheap pencils .. it is that good - It is made of metal and the blade is ultra sharp which sharpens pencils with a very smooth feel and clean flower-like shavings , no matter the pencil quality - The drum design is pretty neat and can hold a lot of pencil shavings before the need to empty it FINAL THOUGHTS Overall if you are looking for a the absolute best , German made and engineered sharpener, then you cant go wrong with this one . The only downside/challenge to it is that since this is an Add-On item , to finding ~ $24 worth of other items to get it !

Finally, a pencil sharpener that just works

If you need a pencil sharpener, just buy this one and stop looking. This pencil sharpener is awesome, because IT JUST WORKS. I've used it on a few dozen pencils so far, and the points come out perfect every time. Sharp enough to write well, but not so sharp that the tip becomes fragile and breaks off as soon as you start writing. All the shavings are neatly collected in the container, and I've yet to have a tip break off and get stuck in the sharpener itself. I've tried probably half a dozen inexpensive sharpeners that I purchased at various stores, and for the most part, they all suck. I don't know why making a pencil sharpener that actually works is so hard, but there sure seem to be a lot out there that don't. The most common problem seems to be pencil sharpeners that over sharpen the pencil so that as soon as you begin writing, the point breaks off. Or even worse, the tip breaks off in the sharpener before you're even done (in which case, you then have to fish the broken pencil lead out of the sharpener blades before you can try again). With this sharpener, I get perfectly sharpened pencils the first time, every time.

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