BlackwingDesktop Sharpener

Look, let’s keep it a buck fiddy. When it comes to pencils, the diminishing returns begin immediately. There is no deference here. This sharpener does exactly what your 40 dollar hand crank sharpener is going to do. What justifies the price tag? Tolerances. It’s machined elegantly with soft curvatures and everything fits together snugly. It looks nice on your desk and doesn’t damage the lacquer on your pencils. Some people are under the false pretense that you need to hold your pencil in the hole while using the crank. This is incorrect. You place the pencil firmly into the hole and the mechanism self feeds as you crank. It’s priced for expectations, which you better have. This is a hype based product similar to what they did with the KUM long point sharpener. They made the exterior pretty and upped the quality marginally enough for you to talk yourself into buying it. Knowing all of this, I bought it. It’s self hype. I’m not bringing a chick in my room expecting her to look at it and think “damn I’m with big baller shot caller”. In this scenario I am the chick and I think “big baller shot caller” when I use it and find my pencil perfectly sharpened and unharmed at the end of the process. If you’ve got the money and are lusting after it then do your thing homie. Otherwise, stay on your grind and if you find yourself still wanting it in the future with the money to spare then go for it.

A bit overpriced for what it is and it arrived with a noticeable scratch.

The description says that it has two helix blades, but it only has one. Also the adjustment for the point did not do anything for me. If there was a difference it was very very slight! Way over priced!!! Should cost only about $30.00