Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I used this to sharpen my Prismacolor Verithin pencils. The blade is very sharp, almost too sharp, it splintered the lead on my pencils (see photo). I tried a cheap pencil sharpener on the same pencils and it didn't do that to the lead. I used it on my Prismacolor Soft Core pencils and the lead broke 5 times. I used my cheap pencil sharpener on the same pencil and the lead stayed inside the pencil. For both types of Prismacolor pencils, the wood splintered where it meets the lead, but it could be the cheap wood case Prismacolor uses. Overall, this pencil sharpener is sharp but not dramatically different in quality or results than other sharpeners. I compared it with a cheap dollar store pencil sharpener and it performed about the same so that doesn't say much about its quality. I gave it 2 stars for sharpness because I can use it on my Crayola pencils without splintering the wood or the lead, I took away 3 stars for the flaws I mentioned above.