Derwent Manual Helical Sharpener 2302001 Review

This sharpener creates long beautiful points on many types of pencils. However, the sharpener is temperamental about the kinds of pencils he likes and destroys those he doesn't like. As a general rule, don't put anything softer than 4B (or equivalent hardness for the type of pencil you're sharpening) in this sharpener, all it does is eat into your point. It sharpens Prismacolors and other high-quality crayons very well, as other reviewers have noted, but very soft-tipped crayons like Conte and…

Well, Derwent is fun again. I love it when a product arrives and is better than you expected. I'm new to the art industry now and am trying to learn as much as I can about how to get the best bang for your buck. I mean, we're starving artists, aren't we? I honestly didn't know there was so much caviar in art supplies. Why do you need a special sharpener for colored pencils and not for charcoal or a regular #2 pencil for everyday use? Well that makes a BIG difference and doesn't even get me…

This sharpener creates an amazing and beautiful point on typical wooden colored pencils and graphite pencils. I had HB pencils and a set of Crayola Crayon colored pencils. If you turn the handle four times, you get a very high and very sharp point. At first I thought it was too high and would break easily, surprisingly all the points held up. To make the tip less sharp, twist it twice, although this places a small slab of wood vertically on the edge of some pencils. I snapped it with my finger,