🖍️ Faber-Castell Double Pencil Sharpener Metal: Ideal for Colour and Chalk Pens Review

This is a very well made small metal pencil sharpener. Works very well with colored pencils and watercolor pencils. If you buy Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils, you need to buy several of these sharpeners. Albrecht Dürer watercolor pencils are slightly larger and do not fit in a normal pencil sharpener.

I love this little sharpener workhorse! The blades are very sharp and the two sizes are convenient to use in one handheld device. I use this sharpener for my Faber Castell Polychromos, Faber Castell Albrecht Dürer pencils and Derwent Coloursoft and Derwent Artist pencils. What I love most about this manual sharpener is that it only cuts the thinnest wooden shell off the pencil, which makes me very happy because it prolongs the life of my expensive pencils.

Very expensive. Note that the total markup is 700%. You can find them at an art store for between $2.13 and $2.49, and God knows art stores don't come cheap. Faber-Castell sharpener is simply great. The "color" side is for colored pencils (including watercolor pencils), charcoal pencils, and pastel pencils. The other side is designed for any graphite colored pencils. My general recommendation: buy them at an art store. Buy it from Revain as a last resort. If a seller sells 3 sharpeners for $9…