BostitchOffice QuietSharp 6 Electric Pencil Sharpener, Heavy Duty Classroom Sharpener, Size Selector with 6 Different Sizes, Perfect for Classroom and Homeschool Use, Blue

Great sharpener for the price. Fast, sharp, versatile for many types of pencils. Seems well built. Looks nice too. Plug into wall so no batteries needed. Sharpens just right.

this works great it helps t keep pencils sharp for all of us

Works great

Works well, but was surprised how large it is. Takes up more room than I prefer!

Definitely worth the money for classroom use! It sharpens well and is very versatile for different pencils.

This pencil sharpener works great! Very easy to use, just plug it in, pop the pencil in and it goes to work. We have been using it daily for over a month and have not had any issues with it at all. The shavings container is huge and holds a lot of shavings, so we haven’t even had to clean it out yet! So far, this pencil sharpener seems much more durable than any of the ones we have used in the past. It is also quieter than your average pencil sharpener…but it does still have a motor, so it does still make noise, it is not silent. This was a great investment for my 5th grade classroom.

I will admit I was a little put off by the size of this product. The picture makes it look much smaller than it really is. However, let me start by saying that we used to be one of those families with the little hand held sharpener, or maybe we would from time to time find ourselves with a battery powered one. Our children (8 and 5) have just come into both being prolific artists and schedulers. Now that we've moved passed crayons we find lists and stories, sketches and doodles all in their new favorite pencil.With the shear volume of content these two kids have started to create we could not keep up with small sharpeners. Pencils would be dull, broken or nubs. The kids would sharpen them until they were either 1 inch long or their fingers hurt. We'd often see just one side of the pencil sharp while the other remained protected by wood. And the shavings... Don't allow me to start on the fact that though our two children understand the concept of sharpening your pencil over the trash can, they can never truly accomplish the dream. We would find shavings all over our floor, and when we had sharpeners with shaving tanks, they would inevitably come loose or come off when dropped, spilling shavings around our kitchen. At one point I was forced to just sharpen pencils with my razor cutter to just get a good point... NO MORE!!The Stanley Bostitch QuietSharp6 is a miracle worker. It sharpens pencils to a Katniss Everdeen razor arrow head tip every time! The shavings tank is HUGE and slides out, so as not to be dropped. The unit has suction cups on its base to keep it from moving while the kids press their pencils into it and you would think that the sound of all this grinding would be like the floor of some early 19th century industrialists mill factory, but instead it is quiet and quick. Before you are even remotely upset with the sound of its high power motor, it's done! The best part, is that it doesn't over sharpen, so the kids can not nub pencils in seconds like they used to. I would highly recommend this unit if you have a child (or more) that produces lists, sketches, stories and doodles at a rate that would make the NY Times jealous.. Once you have this unit you'll never understand how or why you did things the "other way".. I love this unit and FYI, it does colored pencils just as easily!Give someone in your life the power of use pencils again by sharpening pencils quickly and easily and not spending their time whittling like a wood carver, or twisting like they have a 33 inch screw that needs to go into a 40 inch piece of wood by hand..

I needed an electric pencil sharpener that could sharpen fat kindergarten pencils. I have a hand crank one from classroom friendly supplies which is awesome but not when I need 100+ pencils to sharpen. So this sharpener is bigger than I thought which is ok. I started to sharpen my pencils but they didn’t go in easily. I had to shove them in. There is a tab that has to be pushed down for the pencil to go in all the way. It felt like I was going to break this thing that’s how hard I was shoving. Well it’s because the pencils are new. It’s not a problem to sharpen dull pencils because they are shaped to push the tab in gradually. I couldn’t get a picture to show you. So I ended up starting my fat pencils in the crank sharpener just to get them angled and finishing in the electric sharpener- that made it much easier to insert. Anyway I needed to dump the shavings. Now it looks like the drawer is huge but alas it is not. When I pulled it out a lot of shavings fell out. The back of the drawer is shorter than the front so shavings will always fall out as the drawer is pulled out. And the suction is so good I had to pull it pretty hard so shavings got everywhere. So now I know and you know too. Minus 1 star for the mess. I ended up sharpening about 132 big fat pencils fairly quickly so I would recommend since it didn’t take 3days with the hand crank.