Westcott 16244 iPoint Orbit Battery-Powered Pencil Sharpener for Home and Office, Black

I bought this pencil sharpener 6 years ago for $14 at Costco. I was thrilled when it lasted over 6 years as that was a fantastic value. Very durable yet lightweight and the size can easily be stored in a cupboard, drawer or desktop. I was bummed I couldn’t find a replacement that plugged in, so I had to purchase the battery operated one. I received it today, and I actually received three for the price of one. Hoping someone will reach out to me if this is a shipping error. I don’t want bad karma, but I couldn’t find an email to correspond with shipper directly. Great value if I am getting 3 for the price of 1, but not so great that I have to buy batteries. Either way this brand and sharpener are fantastic and I hope this one has the same life as the first one purchased years ago.

This is a sharpener recommended by my favorite greeting card designer, who also has her own product line. I bought the sharpener that requires batteries as I could use it anywhere. It sharpens to a sharp point in literally a couple of seconds. I had to watch a video to understand how to empty the shavings, but once you know how it’s easy. It doesn’t hold a lot of shavings, so you do need to empty it frequently. It also requires 4 AA batteries. Since I just received it, I can’t report on the length of battery life. I would highly recommend this product.

Awesome battery sharpener, although a lot smaller than expected. A friend of mine bought one and loved it, so I decided to get one too, but hers is much, much bigger than the one I received. Otherwise, same design and name. Weird. I have expensive artist colored pencils that I am terrified to put into any old sharpener, afraid they will chew them up to nothing and still not leave a good point, but this sharpener will only need 1-2 seconds of your pencils time to spiffy it up. Its equally as good for my kids' Crayola pencils. I'm glad I bought it! Titanium Bonded blades stay sharper longer • Features auto sensor shut off • Includes EZ-view shaving reservoir • Innovative new design • Manufacturer's limited one-year warranty

I bought the plug-in version of this a couple years ago and love it. Finally - sharp points! I bought this battery-powered one for our colored pencils It also sharpens pencils nicely, but it grabs onto the wood in a weird way. While sharpening, you have to hold on tightly to the sharpener and the pencil so that it doesn’t spin. (Very tricky with short pencils.) You get a nice sharp point, but it sometimes eats at the wood so the point sticks out a bit. This seems to happen more to the colored pencils than regular ones. (We use a large variety of colored pencils, not just the ones shown here.) With colored pencils, we get a lot of broken tips stuck in the sharpener - that’s the nature of colored pencils. The lead inside breaks easily when they’re dropped. One of the benefits of this sharpener is that although it won’t sharpen any pencils when there’s a piece stuck in it, it’s fairly easy to fix. The clear part and the sharpener are easily disassembled so you can access the broken tip. Overall, this sharpener does the job, and I’m satisfied with it, if slightly disappointed that it doesn’t sharpen the wood as smoothly as its electric counterpart. (Although maybe the quality of those have changed as well.)

Even Gina K uses it!

This sharpener has been absolute garbage from the moment I opened the package. Worthless. The blade doesn't cut, it grabs. Thus it takes a herculean effort to hold both the pencil and the sharpener for it to rotate. Every lead breaks off in the sharpener and I've had to open it up, per pencil, to dig out the stuck lead. It eats pencils like candy because there is no such thing as the auto-stop working on this one. Surely this is a defective product because it seems asinine to produce such a sharpener as a workable product. I have a 20yr old pencil sharpener that my son used when he was in elementary school that works better than this. This is the last Wescott product I'll every buy.

While it may be small, this pencil sharpener sure packs a punch. An amazing pencil sharpner which is capable of sharpening colored pencils and has an auto stop feature to prevent oversharping, a feature normmally only found in higher priced pencil sharpeners. The only downside About this sharpener is that you have to empty it out often due to the small storage space. Compared to sharpeners at this price I would consider it the best due to the fact that it has auto stop. I would recommend the sharpner to anyone who is need of a affordable but reliable sharpener.

I recently forgot my iPoint Orbit pencil sharpener at my granddaughter’s house. I told her to just keep it and I would get me another one. This way I’ll have one in both places! I love the way it sharpens and how fast it works.

Brilliant pencil sharpener, works well, expensive but a solid pencil sharpener and worth it.

I like the size of the unit, and it does a nice sharp point, easy to clean out. Good buy !!!

Gives a very nice sharp point

Ho scelto questo prodotto dopo aver cercato in rete il "migliore" temperamatite per matite colorate (quelle che usano i miei figli a scuola), e l'ho acquistato nonostante il prezzo elevato (circa 20 euro) trattandosi di un prodotto di importazione dagli USA. Dopo aver temperato bene circa 15 matite ora è praticamente inutilizzabile: la "testina" che dovrebbe temperare slitta quando inserisco una matita, e di fatto non tempera nulla. Product selected after extensive research for the best sharpener for colored pencils (those which my kids use at school), and purchased despite the high cost (about 20 euros) being imported from the States. After having sharpened about 15 pencils now the "head" which is supposed to sharpen "skips" whenever I insert a pencil to sharpen, and as a matter of fact it does not work.

Me gusta este producto, tiene buena potencia, fácil de limpiar y saca la punta de lápices limpia y afilada. Recomiendo usar baterías recargables para reducir costo.