• Reviews around pencil (3.60 of 5)

    X-ACTO Ranger 1031 Wall Mount Manual Pencil Sharpener

    • My kids always have sharp pencils now and they never ask where the pencil sharpener is.
    • Great pencil sharpener.
    • great pencil sharpener
    • The handheld type always seem to break the point, right before the pencil becomes sharp
    • I was tired of terrible pencil sharpeners and trying to find pencils for my son to do homework
    • Worst pencil sharpener we've owned.
    • OMG, the pencil was sharp and long!
    • Sharpens the pencils very well and does not weaken the tip
    • I have the sharpest pencils in the land!
    • Great pencil sharpener!
    • Doesn't stick to surface for long, but it is a good pencil sharpener
    • Great pencil sharpener.
    • Razor sharp pencils.
    • I've only had it one day but this thing seriously sharpens pencils and fast to a perfect point
    • When you really need a good pencil sharpener, and you want one like you (or your parents) had when you were a kid, this one will fill the bill!
    • My kids love it (6, 8, 10) so now pencils are all sharp instead of worn out nubbings
    • Works great ---- put a really sharp point on my grandson's pencils for his school work.
    • Best pencil sharpener ever
    • My 4 year old son loves sharpening pencils with this
    • The pencil sharpener works great and was just what I was looking for and could not find locally!
    • technology, it still somehow senses when the pencil is sharp and at that moment the blades stop cutting
    • Recently the pencil sharpener lost its integrity and no longer sharpens pencils concentrically.
    • Twist your pencil a little in either direction
    • Finally a sharpener that works, forget those electric ones that chew up pencils off center and constantly break of the lead.
    • And sharp sharp pencils.
    • Best pencil sharpener that we ever purchase Do!
    • The kids love using it and are happy the pencils come out sharp and the lead hasn't been cracked
    • Every time you sharpen a pencil, you have to re-suction it!Needless to say, I'm on Amazon searching for an electric pencil sharper
    • I have ruined several new pencils this way.
    • This is a great pencil sharpener
    • It sharpens pencils well, but the vacuum mount doesn't work.
    • Needed a good pencil sharpener that I can take on the road with me
    • It pulls the pencil in like a starving beaver, and sharpens unevenly (one side of point is lead, the other side the wood touches the point).
    • This thing is great and makes "weapons grade" sharp pencils
    • Nice even sharp pencils.
    • Finally a pencil sharpener that works well!!
    • The best Damn Pencil Sharpener made
    • It is a reliable, great pencil sharpener
    • Fresh out of the box, and I can barely get a pencil sharp
    • Works well, and produces sharp pencil for our use at home!!
    • It's the perfect pencil sharpener
    • Hard to get a nice point, you have to twist the pencil just right while turning the crank.
    • It works and my granddaughter can sharpen her fat pencils too
    • This is a monster manual pencil sharpener, great for public use, all metal, sturdy, clean, sharp!
    • Also, the sizer ring does not stay firmly in place, so even if the hole WAS exactly the right size, the pencil would still shift slightly...same problem.
    • Great pencil sharper.
    • Does a very good job sharpening pencils
    • It's a friggin pencil sharpener and brand new out of the
    • It's durable so far bulletproof, I've yet to pickup a dull pencil since
    • a solid pencil sharpener.
    • it's not that the lead is off-center, as I know happens in some cheaper brand pencils) - you'll have to twist the pencil to make sure you get equal lead exposure all around the pencil top
    • My kids use it and it does a great job sharpening pencils
    • Sharp pencil tip
    • Have this on the wall and now we have sharp pencils every day!
    • If your kids use soft pencils and push too hard while sharpening like mine do, you'll probably have to run a narrow paper clip down into the middle to break up tips that snap off.
    • Impossible to sharp pencil
    • The pencil sharpener works great
    • Like other reviewers, I found that this sharpens pencils off-center (it did it on several brands of pencils,
    • Didn't want an electric around my kids because knowing them they would ruin every pencil in the house just having fun with it.
    • There is nothing like a good sharp pencil and there is nothing better than a good sharp colored pencil.
    • We were so sick of these electric pencil sharpeners with no power breaking our pencils and wasting our time.
    • Best pencil sharpener ever!
    • It breaks pencils instead of sharpening them
    • Do exercise restraint because if you just grind away, the pencil will be so sharp it breaks as soon as you start writing
    • For people who sharpen pencils of all sorts like crazy
    • We had a pencil sharpener like this for years.
    • This is the best pencil sharpener I’ve ever had
    • Today's pencils sometimes have the lead slightly off center...and it that's the case, the sharpener may not stop when the pencil is sharp
    • I thought I was using crappy pencils, so I finally ordered Paper Mate Black Mirado pencils.
    • Perfect so far sharpens pencils in a few turns
    • It only needs a few turns and the pencil is sharp
    • Mounted this in my garage and it just seems like you can't get a pencil this sharp without one of these.
    • Crank Crank Crank = Perfectly sharp pencils
    • It sharpens pencils like a champ.
    • awesome pencil sharpener, sooo sharp and much more efficient than an electric
    • Great pencil sharpener way better than the electric jobs this thing puts a needle point on the end of a pencil
    • I found this and now am happy with my sharp pencils.
    • This one has such sharp blades that you can grind pencil down to nothing if you just kept cranking.
    • Best pencil sharpener we've
    • this has made homeschool so much easier, no more searching for the missing tiny pencil sharpener, because its right there on the wall..very durable stands up well to my kids great product great price
    • Nice pencil sharpener.
    • Had no problem sharpening the pencils
    • Beats the little manual pencil sharpeners that don't work for long.
    • Overall a nice pencil sharpener
    • Wants to suck the pencil in.
    • It worked for what I needed it for, but after getting this new sharpener, my pencils have never been so sharp
    • I took the advice of others and twisted the pencil as I was sharpening it
    • This is the best pencil sharpener in the world
    • However, if you awkwardly turn it counterclockwise (to the front), it gives you a nice sharp pencil.
    • Gets the pencil sharp with just a few cranks.
    • The materials used look good and sturdy, my problem is that it is always opening (silver part form the black part), I just can't use it:( Any time I turn the handle it opens and I can't secure pencil because I have to hold both parts of the metal body for it not to fall apart
    • Best pencil sharpener EVER!
    • Sharper literally eats pencils
    • the sharpener works best... the pencil will rotate and sharpen evenly on each side.
    • This thing brings back old memories of sharp pencils
    • breaks my pencils, Argh
    • Good build quality and super sharp blades mean pencils are sharpened and ready to go almost immediately
    • Best manual pencil sharpener period.
    • Light and efficient, perfect pencil point!
    • it works in the shop to keep pencils sharp
    • It seems if the pencil is loose at all, it will naturally sharpen somewhat off center every time.
    • Sharpening is now a piece of cake and the pencils are really sharp
    • When first got it it sharpened pencils great.
    • Fantastic pencil sharpener
    • Perfect pencil point.
    • Great pencil sharpener
    • Perfect pencil sharpener
    • Sharp pencils
    • Either the pencil lead or seems to be stuck inside and now pencils not get sharpened at all
    • Perfectly sharpened pencils like back in the old days before electric sharpeners
    • I wish I would have bought this last year instead of spending nearly $50 on automatic pencil sharpeners that killed over after hardly any use
    • I will say this makes the most consistent and most satisfyingly sharp pencil every time
    • Has dual cutting blades and like most of them that only have one it sharpens the pencil to perfection definitely a great pencil sharpener .This vendors description of the item was spot-on would definitely recommend this vendor
    • Great sharpener but the pencils are deadly sharp, my sons smashes them down a bit to make writing more comfortable and less like carving
    • excellent pencil sharpener
    • Sharpest pencils for my kids who seem to need the sharpest for homework...
    • Still worth the money and the kids have sharp pencils again.
    • I ground up an entire pencil without even pushing on the eraser end.
    • Great pencil
    • This pencil sharpener works great!
    • The five year old knows how to work it and all the pencils in our house are sharp
    • Very good pencil sharpener
    • The pencils get so sharp with a really nice tip
    • For people who sharpen pencils of all sorts like crazy
    • This sharpener hardly sharpens at all, just grinds down the pencil
    • Do exercise restraint because if you just grind away, the pencil will be so sharp it breaks as soon as you start writing
    • Finally a pencil sharpner that works great
    • . and after having bought crappy electric pencil sharpeners for 4 times the amount, I bought this for only $10
    • Great pencil sharpener
    • This is a terrible pencil sharpener
    • Sharpens pencils well.
    • 3 turns and very sharp pencil
    • Gets pencils very sharp, but quite unevenly
    • The smallest hole looks like the golf score card pencils would sharpen just fine, the largest would do well with the chunky pencils for small children.
    • I use it in my shop and find myself touching up the pencils much more often now, which leads to better cut lines.
    • This is an excellent pencil sharpener
    • Does it sharpen pencils well?
    • finally a good pencil sharpener and the price cant be beat
    • Difficult to operate, shortens pencils excessively.
    • It Sharpened fine at first but it soon only sharpened one side then it would only "eat" the pencil and break the lead on almost every attempt.
    • I posted photos of before and after, with the sharper pencils being shown are only after 3 to 4 crank rotations
    • Great for oversize round pencils I use for woodworking.
    • Sharp pencils!
    • I am using it to make sure i have super sharp pencils when I do my woodworking.
    • Nice sturdy pencil sharpener.
    • Nice pencil sharper
    • Bought one for my wife to replace a crummy one that pretty much destroyed pencils, It worked so good that I bought another one for my basement workshop.
    • Tired of dull pencils
    • Does a great job sharpening pencils with only one or two turns with the handle.
    • Great pencil sharpener
    • Great pencil sharpener!
    • This is a monster manual pencil sharpener, great for public use, all metal, sturdy, clean, sharp!
    • Gets our pencils nice and sharp every time.
    • Superb pencil sharpener!
    • It eats pencils like a hot knife through butter
    • Great pencil sharpener.
    • Great pencil sharpener
    • don't have to go looking for a pencil sharpener battery one don't work for the
    • Angel-5 Pencil Sharpener and I am happy with that I don't need to hold
    • I bought this for my wife to use sharpening her expensive artist pastel pencils and was very disappointed
    • I still would rate the sharpener as very good because the tips are relatively sharp, the sharpening action disengages consistently when the pencil is sharp, which only requires a few turns, and performance is consistent
    • The kids love using it and are happy the pencils come out sharp and the lead hasn't been cracked
    • Best pencil
    • Even sharpens those cheap-o holiday pencils the kids get from their friends at Christmas and Valentines Day
    • This pencil sharpener works very well.
    • The pencil sharpener works great
    • This pencil sharpener works very well.
    • Gets pencils really sharp and that is what we need
    • The pencil sharpener itself is excellent and exactly the long-lasting, smooth pencil sharpener you remember from childhood
    • Nice sharp pencils and lots of size range.
    • This always sharpens by soft lead pencils without breaking the lead like the crappy sharpeners do.
    • I immediately began sharpening pencils, (lead and colored), and it never missed a beat.
    • Great pencil sharpener
    • Sharpens pencils well .
    • Every kid should have one of these in his bedroom, I attatched it to the wall next to his desk so he can't claim he doesn't have a sharp pencil.
    • These are the greatest pencil sharpeners!
    • This works very well sharpening pencils to a precise point easily and quickly
    • This is the second one I bought because I think this is the only pencil sharpener that works right and sharpens different width pencils to boot
    • Everyone needs a stable pencil sharpener that doesn't need batteries.
    • Decent pencil sharpener that gets the job done.
    • It no longer sharpens at all, just drags the pencil in at an angle, and either spins ineffectually or catches on the pencil and chews it into splinters
    • This is a great pencil sharpener
    • 1) You have to constantly press pencil to sharp it, otherwise it can't know how much of pencil went inside unless you put some kind of mark in pencil
    • This X-ACTO KS Manual Pencil Sharpener works very nice.
    • This X-ACTO KS Manual Pencil Sharpener works very nice.
    • It's a pencil sharpener that doesn't work
    • Pencil sharpener works like a charm
    • Best pencil sharpener I have ever owned
    • Nice metal pencil sharpener
    • Although it will sharpen regular lead pencils, it won't sharpen colored pencils or oil pencils.
    • The greatest pencil sharper ever.
    • Doesn't sharpen straight and housing doesn't hold securely and routinely falls off when kids are sharpening pencils.
    • Today the kids shared a pencil to do homeschooling since both the electric and manual sharpener are broken
    • My children love sharpening their pencils at home
    • I used small sharpeners and electric ones and they all broke the pencils
    • This is a great pencil sharpener.
    • I recommend this pencil sharpener works great.
    • I grew up with crank arm pencil sharpeners and they still are the BEST pencil sharpeners made.
    • Traditional pencil sharpener that works perfectly!
    • The first one that is big enough is too big, causing the pencil to shift and break the lead.
    • It worked for couple of days fine but suddenly started to break pencils
    • Not a dull pencil in the house!!
    • If you like pointy sharp pencils, this is your dream come true
    • In my opinion it is the best pencil sharpener on the market today.
    • Sharpens my stack of dull broken pencils perfectly!
    • Good pencil sharpener.
    • I prefer using pencils
    • Our pencils are constantly broken.
    • It sharpens pencils like a boss
    • Great Pencil Sharpener!
    • Finally I was able to find a great pencil sharpener.
    • It harms the pencils in the grip, and manufacturing quality is regular
    • good and durable, grindes pencils quick, and sharp..
    • This pencil sharpener works good, but it eats a lot of pencil to get it sharpened, my electric pencil sharpener uses less pencil to sharpen
    • Now I always have a sharp pencil.
    • FINALLY.... sharp pencils and not all chewed up like a beaver got ahold of
    • Even with cheap pencils it sharpens them to a smooth point, and it's easy to tell when the pencil is sufficiently sharpened as the handle starts to turn more smoothly
    • I purchased this because I needed a durable pencil sharpener for my 2 boys, and I couldn't be any happier
    • Pencil sharpener like you had in school
    • After a few times of usage, the sharpen started to cut my pencil in an wield angle and completely not usable.
    • Fantastic pencil sharpener however the suction cup isn’t great...the suction breaks after a few cranks of the handle.
    • Wow.. what a mechanical pencil sharper
    • Heavy duty enough, and does a fantastic job of sharpening without breaking the lead (even in the cheap off center Walmart pencils).
    • Hands down the best pencil sharpener I've used in years!
    • Haven't tried it with a new, blunt-end pencil yet.
    • Best pencil sharpener
    • Great pencil sharpener!
    • so I'll always have a nice, well-sharpened pencil for layout.
    • Three spins of the handle and you have a sharp pencil
    • Best pencil sharpener I’ve used since I was in high school.
    • Sharpener works great, sharpens pencils very nicely and easily.
    • Very uncomfortable pencil sharpener
    • The internal mechanism is not concentric with the inlet hole causing the pencil to be sharpened unevenly, albeit sharp
    • excellent pencil sharpener
    • I have just begun pulling the pencil back out about halfway through and twisting it and reinserting to make sure that it gets sharpened evenly
    • I purchased it because I was making coloring books for my grandchildren and they needed a good sharp pencil
    • Best pencil sharpener!
    • Great pencil sharpener.
    • As pencils never are obsolete, I decided to buy one of these
    • This is an excellent pencil sharpener
    • Great retro pencil sharpener
    • We have purchased at least 3 electric pencil sharpeners that barely worked and broke after a few months
    • You can see the pencil getting sort of sucked into the sharpener and 2 or 3 turns and boom, super sharp, every time.
    • Works well on different sized pencils including those Kindergarten size 1 pencils
    • Then I sharpened two pencils before it broke
    • The one.....the only.....pencil sharpener that works right.
    • but it sharpens the pencil at too long of a slope (guessing ~12 degrees), making the tip super sharp and thin (might as well get a mechanical pencil)
    • Finally found a pencil sharpener like the ones in my old school days.
    • Makes pencils super sharp super quick.
    • A pencil sharpener that actually WORKS!
    • A really nice pencil sharpener.
    • Best pencil sharpener.
    • Finally a Pencil Sharpener that works
    • It ruins the colored pencils by breaking off the inner core
    • Totally awesome at giving nice crisp points and laying waste to unsuspecting pencils.
    • Best pencil sharpener I have ever owned
    • To get the ideal sharpened pencil for me it was a matter of how much pressure to apply on the pencil while cranking handle
    • He is very very happy to finally find a pencil sharpener that works as well as the ones produced long ago.
    • Nice little manual pencil sharpener.
    • Can't beat the adjustable pencil diameter and the double-barrel sharpening
    • This unit is very flimsy, poorly made, and worse - the blades just chew up the pencil, instead of those nice clean shavings the old grade school version made
    • It eats pencils (even good-quality Ticonderoga pencils).
    • This thing sharpens pencils like a beast
    • It even works on cheap dollar store pencils that kids get from school all the time
    • I also tried it on several cheap pencils and, unless i held them just right and applied considerable pressure, results were also poor.
    • Not a dull pencil in the house.
    • Great pencil sharpener
    • Sharpens pencils well, but is a pain to screw in to the table or wall because of the placement of the screws
    • A GOOD OLD FASHIONED PENCIL SHARPNER
    • Hands down THE BEST pencil sharpener on the planet
    • So hard to find a good manual pencil sharpener, this one works perfect.