🖊️ El Casco M-430CN Pencil Sharpener: Black and Chrome with Base Side Load Review

the best pencil sharpener in the world, very beautiful! It's more of a sculpture than an instrument, beautiful even when not in use.

This is a very expensive pencil sharpener that broke after minimal use. The company does not offer a way to contact anyone to correct this.

Overpriced, decent score for writing but not for drawing. It is better to take the much cheaper Dahle 133 and modify it (about a minute's work) to achieve an unmatched result.

In the tenth chapter of his book How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical and Theoretical Treatise on the Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Lathes, Angle Craftsmen and Civil Servants, David Reese of El Casco 430 as "an outstanding example of engineering art".

I write a lot of sheet music on paper with pencil. It is important for me to have a sharp pencil with a long lead. I use it so often that I decided to treat myself. This is the tool I use for work so I can justify it. It looks so beautiful on my desk that I feel rewarded and pencil sharpening is a pleasure. Every situation is different, and many brands of pencil sharpeners cost a few hundred dollars less, but for some users, that's a luxury.

This pencil sharpener is absolutely beautiful I have never seen anything so wonderful and with such great craftsmanship it was amazing to do it easy to hold it in your hands. But this is for writers. This gives you the absolute best pencil tip to write whatever you need. It has a very blunt tip and is not suitable for drawing, that's why I bought this sharpener, but there's no way I can draw with a pencil with such a blunt tip. My pencil needs to be as sharp as possible to get the desired…

My pencil sharpener is great for sharpening pencils. However, there are a few things that hold it back from being a great product. There are burrs on the collet that holds the pencil. This burr bites into the pencil when sharpened, leaving an ugly scratch that goes through the ink on the pencil. I was able to file the ridge and improve it a bit. The chip collection box was bent and had to be straightened. The rim of the box should have a rough edge so you can sharpen the lead further. The edge…