Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A terrific, well-built, and easy-to-use manual pencil sharpener. I prefer it to the Prismacolor Scholar Colored Pencil Sharpener (at about the same price) because the Staedtler has a screw-on lid whereas the Prismacolor Scholar has a snap-on lid. More importantly, with the Staedtler you can hold the pencil in one hand and simply rotate the sharpener, rather than trying to spin the pencil. This makes manual sharpening much quicker and easier. Both units do an equally good job of sharpening pencils.