I was disappointed with this sharpener
353189
I was disappointed with this sharpener. I thought being it was a Prismacolor Premier Pencil Sharpener it would sharpen my Prismacolored Pencils well but it didn't. It's just a regular small cheap sharpener in a big case. I could've bought the sharpener part in the dollar store & gotten the same sharpening results, it was breaking many of my pencils so I don't use it anymore
2909428
Returned after one use. It seems petty but I was so annoyed that I spent like $8 for special colored pencils online, and they wouldn't sharpen. Every single time the tip broke off, so I used them once and they were like half way to the nub afterward. Terrible quality
147887
I bought this to use at home to sharpen pencils for my elementary age sons. I sharpen maybe one pencil a month and this sharpener died before a year was up. You also had to rotate the pencil while sharpening to get an even point or the wood would still be covering part of the point.
356590
I bought this about 3 months ago for my home office. I sharpened at max 2-3 pencils a WEEK. This thing is now dead as a doornail and will not sharpen anything. I even tried plugging it into other outlets in different rooms. When it did work, it was huge and heavy. The door that opens for dumping shavings is flimsy and awkward. It never sharpened my pencils evenly. One side always had wood where the lead should have been exposed. Perhaps I bought a dud, but I know I will never again buy this product. For the price, I expect to get at least a few years of light use out of it. NOT pleased.
672327
I have no idea why this has so many good reviews unless I just received the "lemon" of the batch. It does not create a long point at all! (Yes, I did the two stages correctly.) But a standard old pencil sharpener does better. It will languish in my drawer unused.
884893
This pencil sharpener is terrible. From the first day that I received it, it sounded as if the motor was going out. I thought it was new, but maybe it was refurbished. Too much of a headache to return it because I threw away the packaging so I am stuck with it.
3317414
Spend the extra $10 on a nicer one.  First off, this sharpener is tiny.  You need to empty the shavings after sharpening 3-4 pencils.  Second, it does sharpen, but it seems to shape the lead into a square instead of a point.  When I keep sharpening, it then breaks.  Third, it's overpriced for what it is.  This is at best a $5-$7 value.
822262
It is too small and do not like the type of sharpness it creates.  I used colored pencils.
3517258
I had a Boston Sharpener that looked just like this one.  I had had it for 20 years and it worked really well.  Finally it gave out and I got this one which looked to be pretty much the same thing... I think Xacto even bought out Boston.

It isn't the same but like everything now a days quality is in decline.  I think I'd have had to pay $50 or $100 for the same quality unit as I had had before... and I just didn't have that kind of money to spend on a pencil sharpener that I may or may not like if you know what I mean.

The motor just does not feel as powerful.  It takes longer to sharpen a pencil.  It says it has an auto shut off and it does but it is not as easy to tell with this model as it was with my other one... it's a very subtle sound and feel on this one.  This one gets hot faster than my other one so I can only sharpen 7 pencils before I feel that I need to stop and let it "rest" before it overheats and stops running.

I also note that the pencils don't seem to get sharpened all the way on one side, you have to twist them half way through a sharpen to make sure all sides get sharpened to a point if that makes sense.

So while I am disappointed with the quality I think this is the best you are going to do for the price.  If you want better quality you will probably have to pay extra for it.
4464512
I was looking for a cheaper replacement to the wicked edge.  So far I have not been that successful with a sharpener.  The clamp device could be improved.  Blade slips out from the clamp from time to time.
2275492
not the best, hard to sharpen, really big, wish I could return it...
249948
This sharpener is not as good as the one I bought before. It is difficult to insert a pencil and kind of loose feeling. The first one was amazing. I hope they correct the manufacturing to it's original excellence.
4927654
This was a disappointment, not a sharp knife and does not keep an edge if sharpened.
1925920
I wouldn't buy this again. It works ok, but it's not really better than the stock sharpener that came with my Primacolors.
178529
I decided very early on that I would rather use my diamond sharpener, wet stone or a few other things that did a better job. Didn't do the job for me.
4162282
This gizmo sounded like a great item to have so I decided to take the plunge and buy one.  I was very disappointed.  After sharpening one very good knife, I noticed a lot of etching along the blade of the knife - not nice!  I cut a tomato with ease, but the next job was a piece of raw meat - I could have gotten further with a butter knife.  Maybe it's great if you don't have a steel (most good knives do not need to be sharpened very often, just steeled), but I would prefer to stick with the old method.  When one spends $200-$400 for a knife, that etching of which I spoke earlier is not nice.  It might be your cup of tea but it left me tepid.
1330268
I ordered two Bostitch pencil sharpeners for my classroom last year. They were quiet for about 2 weeks and then started getting louder as students used them. Mid-year the sharpeners stopped sharpening pencils all together. They advertised that the pencils sharpened within seconds; however, we tried several times and it never became sharp. I was very disappointed since I had paid a decent amount of money for them. I won't use them again..