I got tired of using the cheap little plastic ones that left you with a tiny tip that usually broke off when you got to use it

What can I say but this is the type of pencil sharpener I had as a kid back in the dark ages...and these pencil sharpeners still vastly out perform the cheap plastic sharpeners that the kids get tons of these days.

This replaces a cheap plastic handheld sharpener, (the second one), and I’m a college student/single father of two elementary age boys so it’ll get plenty of use.

Love having this as opposed to the cheap little plastic sharpeners that continually break your lead

Must have for the garage shop, use pencils all the time, got tired of the little cheap plastic things and bought a REAL pencil sharpener, like the ones I remember from school, Does a great job, so sharp you need to be careful not to poke a eye out, seriously they can poke a hole in your shirt pocket.

Better than the cheap plastic ones.

Works great and love that it is metal and not a cheap plastic sharpener.

It does beat out the cheesy plastic hand held sharpeners.

Even the most cheap Chinese plastic sharper would give you a better result

Cheap Plastic and does not sharpen well

We went through 100 frustrating little plastic handheld sharpeners before getting this for our homeschool family

Those cheap little plastic sharpeners always broke the point off and had to try many times just to get something that I could write with

I broke two electric sharpeners over the last 4 years,and don't use pencils much....these X-Acto sharpeners are built with ALL Metal Parts...no chintzy plastic gears,etc

That said, I do like black and silver, and the plastic seems sturdy enough, but all metal would have been a 5 star.

Have had many battery operated sharpeners as well as hand ones, nothing beats the school-type sharpeners

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This doesn't really bother me as I don't sharpen a ton

If you mount it on a wall for use for turning the handle with your right hand, the basket dumps as you take it off

Works as long as you can turn it.

Disappointing as you really should not need to buy a pencil sharpener every few years.