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Posted: Oct 09 2014 at 9:17am | IP Logged Quote MarilynW

(Not sure this is the right forum)
Please would you recommend good sharpeners. I am so frustrated with trying to sharpen pencils. The only sharpener I like right now is the Faber Castell trio which I have had for years, mainly because it does our jumbo triangular pencils.

I need sharpeners for the following:

1.Ticonderoga HB #2
2. Waterolor pencils - Prismacolor, Derwent
3. Color pencils - Prismacolor Scholastic and Regular
4. Crayola color pencils
5. Prang color pencils

I really dislike the Prismacolor Scholastic sharpeners that I bought. Our old electric sharpener (12 years old) is horrible too.

Thanks for any recommendations.

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Posted: Oct 09 2014 at 9:26am | IP Logged Quote SallyT

Following with great interest.

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Posted: Oct 09 2014 at 9:46am | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom

I will try to track down the better sharpeners around here, but the ones that work best for colored pencils I have found are "artists" sharpeners, not scholastic. Though, I do keep a bunch of inexpensive ones around that the kids have free access too, though they have to pay me if they lose it and want a new one.

We are so lucky that our house was previously owned by a school principal. It came with two vintage wall-mounted school sharpeners! They are simply the best for regular pencils, though I will not allow the boys to use them for colored since I think they will mess it up.

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Posted: Oct 09 2014 at 6:55pm | IP Logged Quote MaryM

The ones that have consistently gotten the best reviews here through the years:
Boston Ranger 55 Wall Mount Pencil Sharpener for wall mount

Lyra 2-hole pencil sharpener for handheld

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Prismacolor pencils are picky. There is a specific Prismacolor sharpener sold by Prismacolor - but it is just a KUM metal sharpener inside. That is what we use - just the plain KUM handheld dual sharpener.

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Posted: Oct 10 2014 at 9:21pm | IP Logged Quote Mimip

Ok, I know this is going to sound crazy but I bought a bunch of cheap pencil sharpners at the Dollar Treeand they are AWESOME! Might want to try it!

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Posted: Oct 10 2014 at 9:32pm | IP Logged Quote MarilynW

OK - I ended up ordering this one - it arrived really quickly. I have tried it on the big pile of the Ticonderoga pencils that my sons need for the PSAT next week - and it seems to be working well.

Maybe I need to have a separate one for pencils and one for colored pencils?

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Posted: Oct 11 2014 at 6:17am | IP Logged Quote CrunchyMom

I don't know about hand held sharpeners, but I believe it was here on these boards that I learned the colored pencils will ruin a mechanical sharpener, whether cranked or electric.

This is our current fancy sharpener, though we have a couple of others that work well, too, and I bought a dozen of these that the boys can buy from me if they lose theirs. They seem to work well since the boys have not complained, and I have not noticed that annoying thing where the tip of the colored pencil falls out.I pick up a lot of pencils and sometimes grab them in a pinch to write with, and I never find missing tips that were common with inferior sharpeners. I tend to shop for sharpeners from Dick Blick or Jerry's Artarama wahen ordering art supplies because artists are picky about their sharpeners.

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Posted: Oct 11 2014 at 5:55pm | IP Logged Quote Christine

This is our all time favorite sharpener. It comes as a one-hole and two-hole sharpener. It is reminiscent of the metal sharpener that I used in my high school art classes and does well sharpening ticonderoga and colored pencils. The children all like using it and are very careful about putting it back in a specified drawer so that it doesn't get lost. They know that if they lose it, they will need to use a different sharpener and they don't want to do so.

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