Product Description

The first electric sharpener designed for classroom use. The School Pro features a quiet, heavy-duty motor which sharpens wood, composite and recycled pencils. It also includes an extra large shavings receptacle. Its multiple-diameter dial fits regular or thick children's pencils, and its automatic pencil stop prevents over sharpening. Manufacturer's 2-year warranty. Assembled in the U.S.A. Back to Menu

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2402 in Office Product
• Color: Blue/Grey
• Brand: X-Acto
• Model: 1670
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 5.68" h x 8.00" w x 8.50" l, 3.40 pounds

Features

• Designed by Teachers
• Produces a sharp, but rounded point.
• Quiet heavy duty motor

From the Manufacturer
Made to withstand constant sharpening, the Boston School Pro Electric Pencil Sharpener is an ideal choice for school or office use. This sharpener is designed with an X-ACTO steel cutter to provide a quick point without oversharpening, and features an adjustable dial to accommodate both primary and standard pencils. This sharpener comes backed by a 2-year warranty.

Customer Reviews

Looks good, functions so so
I am in the design field, using color pencils a lot. I noticed this well advertised sharpener and it seemed like a nice piece in the pictures on-line. The unit I got is made by X-Acto and has 5 pencil size options and a nice big bin for shavings.

So I bought one to replace my cheap 20 year old sharpener, which cost $18- twenty years ago.

The large bin is nice. But I do have major problems with this unit.

1) Stub results. The angle of sharpening is not sharp enough. A large cutting angle means you have to sharpen more often and have less freedom with drawing with your pencil (sideways). Anybody that claims that a fatter sharpening angle is less dangerous for kids is really not telling the truth, a sharpened pencil is a sharpened pencil. There is no excuse to have such a poor angle, perhaps the mechanism isn't that good a quality. Anyway, trying to draw expressively with stubs is annoying and interrupts the creative process.

2) The pencils never seem to hit right on center, leaving this annoying off-centered wedge down the exposed sharpened graphite point. I have to shove the pencil in at a some angle to try and get it to sharpen on center. Never works right. The wood wedge down the graphite also means more frequent sharpening and interferes with the creative process.

3) My inexpensive 20 year old sharpener is more powerful than this X-Acto sharpener. It sharpens faster and has a narrower sharpening angle.

Conclusion? I don't recommend this piece, it is well below mediocre, in fact I would call it substandard. I'm giving my unit to the kids as I can't return a dirty used piece.

This is a LARGE sharpener
I bought this sharpener because we have a large collection of very thick color pencils which require the largest hole on this sharpener to sharpen. This sharpener works fine.

However, I was rather surprised by its large size. It is twice as tall as most of the electric sharpeners one sees in offices and homes, and it is wider and heavier.

Love It
I loved my Boston School Pro. The kids in my class were forever griding away on my old fashioned crank sharpener, and other teachers were contantly complaining about their loud electrict sharpeners that would quickly burn out on standardized testing weeks. With the Boston School Pro, teachers came to my room (or sent kids to my room) to sharpen pencils for the Stanford 9 test. There is a audible difference when students pencils have achieved ultimate sharpness. No more wasting time at the sharpner!