✏️ M+R Magnesium Specialty Sharpener: German-Made Excellence at its Finest Review

First of all, be careful. This is a non-returnable item. Second, the description on the website says this product is made in Germany and the box says "Magn.many" made in .many. It's not the whole word, Germany. This is a scam. The metal part of the sharpener is very, very light and cheap and already changing color. This is clearly not a German product. The word Germany is written on one of the three blades. Obviously different parts are made in different countries. I am very dissatisfied with…

I use an M+R magnesium sharpener to finely sharpen the Palomino Blackwing pencils. Blackwings are made from hard, aromatic cedar wood, rather than the typical soft sawdust compound that most of today's cheap pencils are made from. Blackwings also use hardened Japanese graphite, which is harder to sharpen than most other pencil leads. On a new pencil, I first make a taper with an old-fashioned rotary-blade wall sharpener. Once the end of the new pencil is tapered but before the lead is…

This is my second sharpener from M&R. The first was a round copper sharpener shaped like a washer. It was enough for me to believe in this brand so I bought it in this elusive hunt for the perfect sharpener. The pens I use are Prismacolor Premiere and Verithins, Faber Eco, CastleArt, Dixon and a few other sets that are similar in color. Draft for Prisma. These include pens with round and hexagonal shafts, as well as with oil and wax leads. The sharpener worked with all pencils. Let's start with