Heavy Duty Classroom Electric Pencil Sharpener

Quiet and works with most pencils. Sharpens fast and easy to clean shavings. Rubber feet keep it in place. Use it in my classroom and love it.

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 have a lot of odd pencils from various brands. I have been struggling with manual sharpeners. I decided to give the Bostitch a try. It was larger than I imagined. It still fits nicely on my small desk. It sharpens everything I have put near it quickly and like a boss! I have used a lot of sharpeners in schools and elsewhere but this one was the best sharpener I have ever used! I immediately had to write a review for a product that does what it is supposed to do! If we are just talking about sharpening pencils-this is life changing! I feel spoiled and lucky to have a sharpener that can sharpen so many types of pencil so quickly and quietly! My college age son said he had teachers with similar models. I could see a whole line of kids sharpening their pencils quickly. This made me silly. I told my son i love this pencil sharpener so much that I have to wonder where it's been my whole life! LOVE IT! I am so glad I decided to splurge on an electric sharpener, specifically this ONE! It was a great deal. I was originally going to buy just a quality manual sharpener to replace one I lost. I would trust this Bostitch sharpener around my best pencils. I wish every product could be of this quality! I am laughing because I never knew I could be this happy over a pencil sharpener!

I purchased this for use in my first grade classroom. It worked as promised, got pencils nice and sharp and was pretty quiet too. It stood up to high volume use for the school year. It stopped working from time to time when a colored pencil tip got jammed, but I was able to extract them and continue using the sharpener. I pulled it out again this fall for year two and it stopped working a few weeks into the school year. The motor died. I got another because I was very happy with the performance. This time I am very clear that it is not to be used for colored pencils. Halfway into the year it is still working very well. Looking at reviews, I can see that people have had mixed success with this product, but I have been happy with it when used as directed. Now I just need to find a good sharpener for colored pencils!

This is the pencil sharpener you want. It does NOT stall, even on larger round pencils. My old sharpener would stall with a regular size pencil; if you pushed on the pencil even a little. Stall, stall, stall. How are you supposed to sharpen a pencil with a sharpener that doesn’t work. It was such a pain to try to sharpen a pencil. Not mention the time wasted when I have work to do and am just trying to get a simple pencil sharpened. This sharpener is such a pleasure. It is powerful. With dual cutters it provides a nice needle point every time. I use regular size and the larger round size in my shop. This sharpener does a perfect FAST job of both. Shavings container is large so I don’t have to keep emptying it all the time. The base of the sharpener is metal. Solid, very high quality feel overall. Cost was a bit more but worth every bit. No more wasted time. Now I can sharpen my pencil and get back to work. I highly recommend this sharpener.

Before I buy anything, I do a lot of research on it. A lot. So this Stanley sharpener came to my attention. I needed for my 7th grade classroom and if I were ever going to invent something and check it for durability, I'd put it in a 7th grade classroom for about a month. If it can last that long, you can bet it'll last just about forever. I've had several manual sharpeners in my classroom, you know, the type you screw to the wall. They don't hold up. One was torn from its stem, the base still screwed to the wall. Another had its handle bent so much that when you went to sharpen a pencil, you'd have to crank it in an oval instead of a circle. I didn't really want to spend too much for a sharpener, since my classes have a "reputation" for how they treat prior sharpeners. But the Stanley LOOKED heavy-duty enough. And Stanley tools are pretty rugged, right? Besides, the only other choice that seemed like it might hold up was an Xacto one, but that was over $100! I am a school teacher, after all. So I bought this Stanley Bostich EPS12HC SuperPro 6. What sold me was that it could could take all pencil sizes and it boasted of a motor so rugged, that it actually had a FAN to cool it down! It had suction cups for feet to keep young 7th grade bodies that throw their weight against their pencils from pushing it off the table. It looked as if it could sharpen colored pencils too, something that always jammed other electric sharpeners. The only drawback I could see was it didn't really have an auto-stop feature, you had to "feel" it as being sharpened as you were sharpening your writing instrument. Oh well. Let's take a risk. This machine is the new Class Pet. It does everything it promises and more. The kids LOVE IT. I LOVE IT. It's fast and the blades are sharp. Why, because the container is see-through, the kids actually empty it when it gets full of pencil shavings too. They've gotten over grinding pencils down to stubbs. The only drawback is that it sometimes sharpens a pencil's wood along with the graphite, so that you either have to peel it away with a fingernail, or put it back in and twist the pencil. No big deal either way. I would DEFINITELY recommend this machine for you. It doesn't matter if you're not a teacher - I'd get one for my home even. Worth every red cent! UPDATE - 1 year later. OK, so as I mentioned above, if you ever want to check the durability of nearly anything, put it in a 7th grade classroom for a year. Here's the result of having the Stanley Bostich EPS12HC used by seventh graders for 9 months. At first, it was a wonderful machine: it sharpened pencils to a pin-point, it could handle colored pencils (something that would cause other sharpeners to bog down). But then Monica jammed her stub of a pencil into the sharpener and it got stuck. I had to use a paperclip to slide what was left of her pencil out from between the sharpening gears, after taking out the shavings bin and getting to the gears from underneath. But it was never quite the same after that. Maybe the blades grew dull; I don't know. What happens now though, is that when it sharpens pencils, it sharpens the WOOD around the point, bringing the lead AND the wood together to a sharpened spear. If you don't have fingernails to chip away the wood to get to the lead, forget using the pencil. Also, it seems to have given up trying to get colored pencils sharp. I'm not sure why this fine-looking machine is going the way of all pencil sharpeners in my classroom. I'll see if maybe its the blades that need replacing (after only ONE YEAR?!), but that seems unlikely. Stay tuned! Well, this is, I'm sorry to write, the final review on this pencil sharpener. It's given up the ghost and I've given up on it. So much so that I actually went out and bought a similar version made by X-acto. And I did not buy it from Amazon for the simple reason that, for less than $10, I could buy a one year, if-it-breaks-bring-it-in-and-get-a-new-one warranty. How can a 7th grade teacher beat that?! So, sorry, Stanley Bostich EPS12HC SuperPro 6, our relationship is now over....

Bought this for my mom’s classroom. She’s in love. Effortlessly sharpens her pencils. Doesn’t make a lot of noise. Easy to use and very sturdy.

Bought this for work and it is still going strong after a lot of use. Easy to operate and not as loud as some others. Works perfectly and well-made (quite solid)!

Excellent sharpener but is 110volt ONLY. Had to purchase a 110/240 v transformer before being able to use making it an expensive sharpener! Therefore not recommended for use in Australia.

Produit de bonne facture, robuste et efficace mais le descriptif n'indique pas qu'il s'agit d'une fiche électrique de type USA et qu'il faut l'alimenter sous une tension de 120V (en Europe la tension électrique du secteur est de 230V)

Es un sacapuntas grande, solido y silencioso. Tiene entrada para varios tamaños de lápiz, incluyendo triangulares. Funciona mejor que otro modelo chino que nos duró tan solo 4 meses en la casa y este es más barato. Muy recomendable aparato.

Producto de buen tamaño, no genera mucho ruido, fácil uso, gran espacio para la caida de la madera (viruta), comodidad para su uso escolar. Recomendación de supervision de un adulto cuando lo usen los menores. Tienen ventosas en la parte inferior que hace que sea mejor la estabilidad. La 6 opciones de grosor permite tener una amplia variedad de colores-lapices con excelente punta