Drawing Pencil Sharpener PS09B

I use charcoal pencils, derwent and generals and I can't say enough about this pencil sharpener. I even sharpen my pencil erasers and it works great. I have had it for about three years and I only had one problem with the pencil eraser getting stuck but was able to take it apart clean it out and right back to normal. HIGHLY recommend this product.

Well, if you're like me, you've been looking for a decent pencil sharpener, for yard pencils, your mechalion, or your charcoals, your pastels, your colored pencils, soft lead like a folding b or softer, this thing puts it into a needle pinpoint sharpness, in the flicker. Die's flat, I have a oil base. White pin or pencil? It's so soft that you can barely sharpen it with a sharp knife. I stuck that sucker in there and I got such a fine pinpoint. You could use it to give vaccinations. So please tickle pink, if you need these perfect pencil sharpener, for long, fine point sharpness, this is the place to go beautiful colors, great price, and it's either USB or battery. Super cool. It's about four and a half inches tall, and it's got about a two and a half inch diameter, blue and black, really nice.You're one you'll be tickled bink it's cheesy the easy to empty out. And the lead is sharpened in such a way that it doesn't break real easy, it's really cool. I'm totally impressed with it. Alright, the power is plug or battery. Yippy

I was happy to receive this sharpener. I have another brand electric sharpener that I use but was unhappy with the way it treated my charcoal pencils. I looked it over, charged it up and threw in an old Ticonderoga I had. "Jeez!" I thought it ate the pencil to a nub! I pressed down until the motor stopped and pulled out the longest, sharpest lead I have seen! Concerned about how much pencil was consumed, I put in a new Ticonderoga. Again, beautiful, long lead. I measured against another unsharpened pencil and behold! It was just as long, end to beautiful end! I am going to have to get used to the long, elegant point that this sharpener leaves. The sharpener does a better job than I am capable, at this point, of using. I will though! I tried a brand new Blackwing Pearl. First on the stub setting. The wood was long and elegant and the lead was blunt. Going to the next setting, the wood was still long but the lead was not quite as stubby. Same with the third setting. The fourth click on the setting made the lead as sharp as I am used to. The sharpest setting left the sharpest of all and again, left the pencil as long as new, not consumed like it sounds. I used the pencil on some rough sketches and the point stays usable longer that before because of the length of sharpness. Beautiful! One criticism I would have is in the adjustment wheel. The indicators are not raised very much and are the same color as the plastic. Black. I remedied this by painting every other indicator and it seems easier to tell where I'm sharpening to now. The waste well opens easily for cleaning, and the clear window must be closed for operation in the interest of safety. The unit charges by a built-in USB cable and will work with the included power block or directly from your computer USB port. The cord rolls up very easily into its hidey hole. Handy. The Li-ion battery is replaceable through a screw held panel on the bottom. The unit is substantial and needs no second hand to hold it as it works. Very nice and also attractive. Oh, and the charcoal pencil? My Mars Lumograph, 8B has a sharp point at the end of a 3/4 inch lead. WOW! The Mars Lumograph is pictured. I highly recommend this sharpener and this company, Afmat. They are very responsive and have quality products.

I've been drawing for almost three years now, that's a lot of broken charcoal pencils from sharpening. I've been looking for a long point sharpener for a while now. This product is interesting, it's not quite there for any of my purposes...but it's so useful I still like it. I draw with two primary points: needle (for charcoal and graphite) and beveled (for charcoal and conte). This product cannot do bevel points, but I doubt any electric sharpener will be able to. It also cannot do a good needle point, and again, I'm not sure an academic needle point is possible, if only because of breakage chance on extraction. What this product does well is give an acceptable, quick point. I wasn't sure the sacrifices were worth it, but being able to keep in the flow and just pop my pencil in the sharpener is very useful. I brought it to my current work-in-progress, a skull study, just to play around. I'm doing this in the Watts style, which requires a bevel point for softer lines, and it cannot do that. So I paired the electrically sharpened conte pencil with a manually sharpened conte pencil. This worked fairly well, using the electrically sharpened pencil for hard lines and switching to the beveled point pencil for softer work. Not as nice as having both in the same pencil...but that's where the value is in the sharpener. As my tip went on the electrically sharpened pencil, I just popped it in the sharpener and was back to the races, vs having to spend a few minutes and break my concentration to hand sharpen the beveled pencil. A couple notes: be cautious removing the sharpened pencils, it's easy to break the thin, soft leads. Also need to be careful inserting a pencil, as the unit auto-engages and can break the lead while inserting. I only had this happen once (on extraction) on several tests of slightly soft (2b) pencils. Given the frequency of breakage with manual sharpening, this is a money saver! Be sure to get this model if you need to accommodate larger diameter pencils, such as conte. I'll attach a photo of my initial test sharpening, the pencils from top to bottom: 2b graphite, 2b charcoal, 2b carbon, 3b conte, 2x2b conte, conte sanguine (this one broke at the very tip on extraction, user error). Pros Convenient Minimally acceptable length Can accomodate a conte pencil diameter Works well for softer, larger diameter leads Cons A bit pricey for build quality Easy to break pencil lead when extracting from sharpener Not a correctly sharpened pencil for academic drawings Doesn't work as well with thinner leads and pencils Bottom line: Consider the limited use scenario I outlined. This probably isn't going to be your primary way of sharpening pencils unless you already use a standard sharpener. It is incapable of providing the two very popular academic points (bevel or needle). However, it is a convenient addition to the workbench if you just want something to crisp up a point without breaking your flow.

Update #2: I am upgrading this to 5 stars because I haven't had any pencil breakage for over a year. I now believe that the pencils I was using at the time of my first review were faulty. I reverted to my old pencil brand, and I'm no longer experiencing the issues that caused me to give the product a lower rating. -----Update: After posting my review, the company reached out to me offering a full refund, even though I didn't ask for one. I respect that the company is paying attention, and that they take criticism seriously, and I hope they address the issue I pointed out in my review. I decided to up my rating from 3 to 4 stars, because my old blue model actually deserves 5 stars, and because the company is being more than fair by offering a full refund without asking for anything in return. I believe 4 stars is a fair rating, all things considered----- I bought the blue sharpener six years ago, and loved it. It worked really well for years, but, recently, I noticed that my pencils started coming out less sharp than before, so I thought it's probably time to get a new sharpener. This time, I ordered the black model. I thought the models were identical, apart from the color, but when I got the black sharpener, I saw that there are slight differences in the shape and the internal components. I didn't think it mattered, in fact, I thought they updated the product to make it better, but I was wrong. Not only is the new model inferior to the old one in terms of point sharpness, but it also keeps breaking my pencils. I don't know what's wrong with it, I tried charging it for an extended period, but, unsurprisingly, that didn't help. Clearly, something is different in the new model that makes it unusable. I'm thinking of just ordering another blue sharpener, but I can't trust that I'll get the same quality product I had before. I'm disappointed. It was a really good product, it's a shame they changed it.

I have owned several electric pencil sharpeners and after doing a lot of research and watching many videos I decided to give this sharpener a try. I am incredibly happy with my purchase. All the reviews I have read have been right on. This sharpener offers so many features compared to others in this price range. This is definitely a professional-quality sharpener. This company listens to it's customers and makes the recommended changes to make this the perfect sharpener for all pencils. It offers two separate holes to accommodate all pencils. It has auto stop when the perfect point is reached and prevents oversharpening which leads to lead breakage. It has five different nib options from an extreme point to a blunt lead. It really has covered all the options one would need in sharpening any pencil you would want to use. The only pencils it does not recommend you use with this sharpener are those with a soft core, although I have used it to sharpen soft-cored pencils without issue. I just set the nib to the lowest possible. I could not recommend another electric sharpener over this one. If you are on the fence on this sharpener, just get it. You will not be disappointed.

The pencil tip shown on the product image is beautiful, sharp and long, but that simply isn't the truth. I sharpened a number of pencils the moment I received the product. None of them were able to get to that long and needle like tip. I double triple quadruple checked the nib settings and I was pretty sure I didn't make a stupid mistake. The next thing I tried was to put it back a few times, hoping that it'll sharpen the tip a bit more, but nope, a dull tip is the best I can get. Besides that, there are a few more problems. 1. regular pencils won't get to that long tip because the core is thin. Only pencils with thick core will get a long tip. For regular pencils you get an excessive amount of wood exposed with a small tip, making the pencil look really ugly. They actually have it in the product description, but I missed it. 2. The exposed wood part looks more like sanded down by a coarse sandpaper, than shaved by sharp blades. I need to use a piece of paper to get rid of the wood dust every time I took it out. 3. the core isn't evenly sharpened all on sides 4. it takes too long to sharpen a pencil

It breaks my charcoal pencils. Works great with regular ones, but I bought it to use with charcoal ones as the description said it would work with those. False advertising. :(

Solid helical cutter, beefy and sharp, handles pencils well (no broken leads experienced at all, yet, but then our pencils must be in good shape for that, too -- I avoid dropping pencils like I avoid putting them in a fire). Even at longest point setting, no broken or stuck leads so far. Another model, the "Long Point Sharpener," provides even longer --extremely long-- points on pencils (no broken leads on that one either so far), but this particular model, the "Artist Pencil Sharpener," has 2 different-sized holes you can switch between, accommodating some larger, beefier pencil sizes of ours. Overall, pleased with this one, and its sibling, the "Long Point Sharpener," especially since the only long-point sharpeners I've found previously, are small manual ones, fussy because you need to sharpen the lead in two separate steps using two separate holes, manually, hoping you used them in the correct sequence and didn't mistakenly mix up the order. (And of course the other manual method, doing it with a knife and hoping you don't press too hard or the blade doesn't catch too deep on the lead and just snaps it, since with a knife you're always applying force from only one side to an increasingly long, exposed and fragile unsupported bit of pencil lead.) So these sharpeners really do save us from the fussy, uncertain, and occasionally frustrating task of obtaining very long points. Yay electricity. What I wish for in these, is a full 'turret' option for all differently sized pencils, like on some other electric sharpeners we have. And one other thing even more -- that this and the "Long Point Sharpener" would both work when sitting on the desk, plugged in, as well (whether plugged into the mains using an electric plug, or USB recharging terminal). As it is, these sharpeners simply refuse to work when plugged in, charging, or even fully charged -- I have to unplug them them every time if I want a pencil sharpened. I consider that counter-intuitive and odd, even inconvenient. Why? Because If they're run down sufficiently to become sluggish, they obviously won't be able to sharpen anything -- but unlike many other rechargeable devices, which will perk up and give 100% performance as soon as they are plugged in, once you plug these sharpeners in, they do absolutely nothing, not even a recalcitrant hum until fully charged and fully unplugged. Odd. And somewhat annoying. There may be a reason for that, maybe some limitation due to the electrical / electronic circuitry design, but in that case it should be overcome and made so these work when plugged in and charging (like many other devices that manage to do that). Especially since electric motors give their maximum performance when fully powered to their capacity, and they tend to struggle when under-powered, as when the batteries aren't optimally charged. So that would warrant 4 (or 4.5) stars -- the 5th star I give because the company and seller behind these sharpeners stood behind their sharpeners 100% and looked after their customer well, provided excellent service and good communication. That's easily worth an extra star, I think. And the sharpener is well made, solid cutters, well centred (neither of them cutting in a lopsided way like some others I've used, not exposing more lead on one side and leaving lots of wood casing on the other), not breaking leads, and really providing a nicely sharpened long point -- that can otherwise be tricky to obtain at times, requiring extra care and slow, attentive manual sharpening, like walking on eggshells (not easy unless you're in your supreme Zen calm zone, without distractions or stress, fully focused, tongue sticking out slightly). Ah, right, they also work as regular electric sharpeners for shorter, more usual point lengths, since they're adjustable. (Just not very short stubby points like some pencils come sharpened from the factory, but that's mostly for shipping convenience anyway, rather then use, since those blunt points get very dull and thick very fast, within a couple of lines in use, done mainly to lessen the chance of those factory points breaking in transit or storage before reaching the customer, I would guess.)

Deja una punta bien larga que permite inclinar al máximo el lápiz y no tener que afilarlo tanto. Lástima que no llegue a hacer el “pincho” que necesito en la punta que si consiguen algunos sacapuntas convencionales.

It does what it says! Be prepared, this is a very long point, and best for leads that aren't too soft. But, since that is how it is marketed, 5 stars so far!

Product was as described and works well as described and shown in the you tube review of the product I found before purchasing.

fantastico!!!!