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How do I sharpen our Prismacolors? My regular pencil sharpener (electric) doesn't work. Is there a special sharpener?
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My prismcolors came with a little metal sharpener. It works great, as long as we don't sharpen the pencils "too" much.
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Electric sharpener are not good for the Prismacolors as you have found. And I was struggling with regular hand sharpeners, too. I did some sleuthing and experimenting a few years back and posted in this thread.
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My curiousity got the better of me and I had to try it so I bought one today (love those 40% off coupons - I can justify anything!) Anyway it really is a very nice sharpener. It does a great job on the Prismacolor. It is smooth. I did the sharpening in a shorter amount of time - less fatigue to my wrist.
As was mentioned earlier the Prismacolors should be sharpened with a high quality hand-held sharpener. That makes a ton of differnece in the problems that were mentioned. Hand crank ones (like in schools) not good and some high quality electrics some people say are okay. Ours stinks and I don't ever do the colored pencils in it.
So back to the Prismacolor sharpener - it will make a difference. Funny thing is though, it is just packaged as Prismacolor. The actual sharpener is KUM. When you look at the sharpener inside the Prismacolor casing it is a KUM magnesium one hole sharpener so you don't have to buy the Prismacolor one to get the same thing. There really doesn't seem to be a difference in price either way - they are around $3.50-4.00 (before coupon  )
This site will explain why there is a difference in sharpener quality. |
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The pencil sharpener Mary referred to above is what we use. It's the only one that I've found to work well with the Prismacolor pencils.
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Huh. I've been sharpening mine with the electric sharpener. But I shouldn't be doing that? Whoops....
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Sarah M wrote:
| Huh. I've been sharpening mine with the electric sharpener. But I shouldn't be doing that? Whoops.... |
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Some high end electric sharpeners aren't a problem. Has it been a problem for you?
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MaryM wrote:
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No, it hasn't. I have an X-Acto. I don't think it's high-end. Here, let me see if I can find it..... Yup.
here it is.
They sharpen beautifully. I just hope I'm not damaging the pencils by sharpening them this way.
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Thank you! I will look for one of those hand sharpeners next time I'm at Joanne's or Michaels.
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Harmony Art Mom linked to a good video --
How to sharpen a Prismacolor pencil
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