Product Description Portable and cordless for easy use anywhere. Razor blade mechanism for sharpening wood pencils. Automatic start and stop. Runs on four AA batteries, not included. Black plastic case.
don't waste your moneyJune 22, 2010 Sunshyn just about every time i've ever use this thing it pulls the lead out of the pencil and clogs the sharpening device with said lead. you have to take it apart and dig out the lead and then grind away another inch of pencil to compensate for the lead that fell out. if you are very lucky you only need to waste about 3-4 inches of pencil to get one point.
excellent product for the priceJune 18, 2010 N. Cuddy Not particularly high tech, but works great. Have to hold the base firmly when sharpening, but it makes a nice point without taking too much off. Compact and portable.
Doesn't work!May 22, 2010 Vincent L. Verrone(NJ USA) I put new batteries in this and it really doesn't sharpen pencils. Not enough juice to get job done. What a waste.
average...get what you paid forMay 21, 2010 Nick Alec(Ny,Ny) This is a battery powered pencil sharpener. It uses 4 AA batteries. It doesnt seem to use up batteries too quickly which is good. The container that holds the pencil droppings is quite small so you will need to empty it often. The thing i like most about this machine is that it is small and it doesnt take up much room. Unfortunately it doesnt do its job very well. Firstly any cheap pencil will break with this sharpener. I tried some of those cheap coloring pencils and they all broke. Now on to regular pencils, sometimes it sharpened them properly (maybe 20% of the time). Other times(30% maybe) it sharpened it, but not enough as the lead in the pencil wasnt properly shaved away from the wood surroundings. Even if you put it back it to sharpen it, it wouldnt. The rest of the time (50%) it sharpened the pencil but too much so one side of the wood was shaved off to much and the other wasnt shaved off at all. I tried various ways of using this machine: not putting in the pencil to hard, putting it in as hard as possible. Think i will just go back to using my manual sharpener, takes effort but atleast it gives me a properly sharpened pencil.
WRONG PICTURE SHOWN!May 20, 2010 Janet(Rochester, NY, USA) You will NOT get the sharpener pictured above. You will get a small, black, plastic sharpener, that does not have any option for different diameter pencils. Very disappointing.
Amazon offered to refund $2.50 for the error, which ends up being about the price that you can get the small black one for at other stores.
The battery compartment is lined in cardboard, and the battery compartment in very hard to close once you put the batteries in.
BUT, it runs like a charm, so I guess I'll keep it.
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