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Please try again.Please try again.In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Register a free business account Please try your search again later.Designed using the highest quality materials, Boston manual pencil sharpeners deliver both performance and reliability. Our manual pencil sharpeners feature carbon steel sharpened blades and sturdy construction. There are Boston sharpeners to handle a variety of different pencils, from composite, to hardwood - even crayons. The timeless manual sharpener designs by Boston are now part of the X-ACTO Precision Instruments line. This line brings the quality you remember, re-engineered for even better performance. The Boston KS Manual Pencil Sharpener is a traditionally styled pencil sharpener that mounts easily onto any horizontal surface. With an adjustable 8 hole pencil guide and the ability to stand up to continuous, heavy duty sharpening, this manual pencil sharpener makes a great addition to a workshop desk or tableAmazon calculates a product’s star ratings based on a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The model takes into account factors including the age of a rating, whether the ratings are from verified purchasers, and factors that establish reviewer trustworthiness. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading. Saying no will not stop you from seeing Etsy ads, but it may make them less relevant or more repetitive.Please update to the latest version. Both registration and sign in support using google and facebook accounts. Escape will close this window.Etsy may send you communications; you may change your preferences in your account settings.Learn more Please Log in to subscribe.Register to confirm your address.Well you're in luck, because here they come. The most popular color. You guessed it: black.
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This line brings the quality you remember, re-engineered for even better performance. The Boston KS Manual Pencil Sharpener is a traditionally styled pencil sharpener that mounts easily onto any horizontal surface. With an adjustable 8 hole pencil guide and the ability to stand up to continuous, heavy duty sharpening, this manual pencil sharpener makes a great addition to a workshop desk or table. The KS model features a brilliant metal finish, sturdy vacuum mounts, X-ACTO quality blades and a 10 year warranty, guaranteeing a precise, clean cut that won't cause a disturbance around the office or classroom. Our line of precision instruments features electric and battery powered sharpeners, knives, trimmers, punches, clips and staplers - all to meet all your needs from a company rich in both history and tradition.The classic classroom sharpener, the X-ACTO KS Manual utilizes dual hardened helical cutters to efficiently sharpen pencils to fine point tips. Its all-metal construction stands up to the wear and tear of student use, while the integrated mount and included screws allow for simple installation on a wall or desk. Sturdy and low-maintenance, the X-ACTO KS Manual Pencil Sharpener is designed to reliably serve schools.These hardened steel X-ACTO cutters offer 33 times longer blade life than a standard sharpener without regular maintenance.A die-cast metal base provides rugged stability, while a nickel-plated shavings receptacle withstands years of use.Adjustable for eight pencil sizes, this sharpener can handle everything from beginner pencils to colored pencils with ease. The manual crank operation is simple for school children to use.From cutting tools to everyday office supplies, X-ACTO creates quality, industry-leading products for teachers, hobbyists, professional designers and more.Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 In order to navigate out of this carousel, please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.
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Amazon calculates a product’s star ratings using a machine learned model instead of a raw data average. The machine learned model takes into account factors including: the age of a review, helpfulness votes by customers and whether the reviews are from verified purchases. Please try again later. Why didn't I buy this sooner?! I am an artist and have purchased what seems like every other pencil sharpener made and sold, and they all work to varying degrees but often times I've had to revert to hand sharpening with a utility knife. This is fine (and works for some things like charcoal or conte sticks) but it's especially tedious for wood or other pencils with casings. I've had a lot of difficulty successfully sharpening some of my pencils, which has now been eliminated with this X-acto sharpener. After mounting this to a desk surface (with the provided screws) I spent the better part of an hour sharpening all of my different pencils. This blade system doesn't marr and catch the casings, snap the tips, or otherwise destroy my expensive pencils, and sharpens everything into a sharp point, and the sharpening angle gives a nice long tip. The metal bin snaps open and closed, and holds quite a bit of shavings before needing to be emptied. It's all metal, and to me it feels very solid and secure. I had one extra-soft charcoal pencil have the tip break when I oversharpened it, and that is literally the only one that had a lead break on me, due to my error of being too aggressive with the speed. There is only one downside I have with this sharpener, in that the blades are positioned far inside the case, which means it is impossible to sharpen my stubby pencils, at least not without an extender or something to hold it. The Lyra pencil i included in the photo is the shortest pencil length I can sharpen. The other potential point is that this needs to be secured to a surface for use, so for people who are in love with their expensive wood desks this would not be ideal.
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All of the furniture in my basement studio is old, cheap, and covered in marks, paint, or chips anyway so I didn't really care about drilling holes into any particular surface. This has an awesome 10 year warranty for high-traffic use, so I can't see needing to buy another pencil sharpener (ever).I'm not sure if my coloured pencils or the sharpener are culprit of the leads constantly breaking it doesn't seem to happen with regular pencils though. I had expected something sturdier, the casing is quite light and it regularly falls off when touched or lightly bumped. I had hoped my 6 year old would be able to use this as he does the one in his classroom, but its become very apparent its safer for me to do it. I only have two children to worry about I can't imagine having this with the mess and possible safety concerns in a class of young children. I had really been looking forward to this so it has been quite disappointing. I honestly would have returned it had it not been an extraordinarily busy month of birthdays and Christmas. From the other reviews I read I almost wonder if mine is simply a dud.Biggest con - there isn't one. The only plastic I could find on this is the little grip on the end of the handle. The body is made of cast metal which means if it breaks, you can't weld it. I'm not even sure if glue would hold it. However, for the price, it doesn't matter. This will sharpen any size pencil and makes a wonderful fine point. It comes with three screws to attach it. We attached it to a board and then clamped the board to my art cart. That way I can move it elsewhere when needed. It's a definite best buy.This unit is not as robust feeling as the old Made in the USA versions. Some elements of the metal feel a bit flimsy. However, it does not get daily use, so should last the rest of my days. Ps to mount the unit, you need to remove the shavings container and expose the screw holes.
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After spending half an hour trying to sharp my woodless PROGRESSO pencils and didn’t get much luck with it ( 2 middle pencils) with regular sharpener, I started to look for a good one. All the reviews stating about its excellence - absolutely truth. It took me 10-15 sec for each pencil. I am still amazed! There is question if it can be used without screwing to the surface - yes, definitely you can.We bought this bright silvery little guy to replace it, but subsequently fixed the other sharpener too. Both get used now. This X-Acto must be mounted on a desktop surface, rather than vertically on a wall. We have a heavy piece of plywood under our computer printer, and we screwed the X-Acto sharpener base onto that. It quickly becomes a very likeable little tool. Of course, if it ever did jam, it would be simple to unjam. The big electric one took an hour or so of fiddling. I recommend this sharpener as a good friend for your desktop.You need to put screws into the three mounting holes in the base, but one hole is partly blocked by the crank handle. With only two screws in place, the sharpener was not solidly attached. I had trouble getting the third (very small) screw in the hole.Very awkward. Couldn't the manufacturer design the base to be a little larger to make mounting easier. Now that it is finally securely fastened, the sharpener does an excellent job of sharpening pencils of various widths.My children dropped it once and the pieces came apart but it proved easy to reassemble. We've had it for 4 years now and despite lots of use, and some mistreatment, it still works perfectly.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Works well with a variety of pencils but not with charcoal or very soft pastel pencils.
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The Faber Castell and Carbothello pastel pencils can be sharpened easily as they are relatively hard. The Conte pastel pencils however will tend to break as the leads are too soft. It also sharpens coloured pencils, graphite pencils and watercolour pencils. The odd colour will tend to break off eg some cobalt blues tend to be brittle. If a lead breaks off the sharpener won't work properly and you'll need to disassemble it with a screwdriver (a Phillips head screwdriver) which only takes a second, then get the broken lead out by tapping the barrel against a hard surface. The barrel and helical blades need a bit of a clean every now and again with a stiff brush anyway. All in all, well worth having and very good value.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Pero es muy practico y ahorra tiempo en el afilado.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Ce produit a exhausser tous mes souhaits. Le fixer a un support rend le tout tres solideSorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Este si que es un producto que recomiendo plenamenteSorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Saca punta a los lapices de una manera facil y rapida, con un resultado muy bueno. Es el tercer sacapuntas a manivela que pruebo, y con diferencia es el que mejor resultado me ha dado. Es un poco mas caro que los otros dos que tengo, pero desde luego vale la pena esa diferencia de precio. Totalmente recomendable. El unico inconveniente que le veo es que hay que atornillarlo a la mesa.Sorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again Recomiendo para alguien que se dedica a trazar y dibujar o para una escuela. Lo unico que note es que se necesita aplicar algo de fuerza para girar la palanca.Sorry, we failed to record your vote.
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Please try again Voy a comprar otroSorry, we failed to record your vote. Please try again. I hate to think how much electricity I wasted with the electric one over the years. X-ACTO is a great brand and every desk ought to have one, but it doesn’t have much to do with Boston sharpeners, and it shouldn’t be on a Boston sharpener. That being said, it was made in China, and I would certain have paid a few more dollars for it to be made in the U.S. The joy of using a pencil is not just in the writing with it, but the whole process.I would love to see research on how many American houses still have manual sharpeners. We found a great photo of an old Boston sharpener from the excellent office history website www.officemuseum.com. The site has all sorts of great history on old office products, including some of the other old brands of pencil sharpeners, including A.B. Dick, Jupiter, Webster, Lakeside, Climax, APSCO, Babcock, McDivitt, Beebe, Everett, Graffco, Dima, Iduna, Olympic, Dixon, Gem and others. Boston made great pencil sharpeners, we still have some of their model KS in our school from 20 years ago and they can sharpen a new pencil in under 8 seconds. Unfortunately, nowadays there are very few companies that make pencil sharpeners, and there are very few alternatives for teachers. A teacher decided to make his own pencil sharpeners and sell them on ebay. Now, hundreds of teachers are buying his pencil sharpeners in place of the garbage put out by Boston, X-acto, Hunt, and whatever other name they are using. (Just as an aside, you can tell what kind of company they are when they have to sell the same pencil sharpeners under 3 different brand names.) I am fully frustrated by the things made over seas. I am one that has made things in the orient and imported them in my company. Some are good but not like USA good. Come on folks buy American lets get the USA back on its feet.
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PS I ran into this site trying to find a USA built sharpener while I cussed at the Xacto one we have. First I read all the reviews of sharpeners on amazon. I came to the conclusion then that my only hope was to find a vintage one. I was contemplating several vintage Bostons that looked to be in excellent condition and was looking for more hints on which might be best or which might be best avoided when I stumbled on this site. Boy was I glad I did! It all sounds wonderful and I put in my order immediately. Thank you! My son’s teacher will also be getting one this year for Christmas. I can’t wait to get them! I may have to start a small collection of them. Shhh. Don’t tell my husband! It works, but not as well as I remember. Wish I had the old one. Speaking of old ones, I inherited a Pilot 402 stapler, the one into which you insert the staple row into a slot on the open top. It probably dates to the ’50s or earlier. I accidently left it at a Post Office. This one looks like a pterydactyl and runs like a Rolls Royce. Thank God for honest PO guys, who really did not want to give it up. Maybe I can will it to someone.The only one that actually worked for me in the classroom was a Panosonic. (It lasted over 3 years!!!!) And then our U.S. representatives don’t represent the American People in getting our jobs back into the U.S. and companies in production here. Do you wonder why so many people are out of work. Any ideas anyone? You should all look up the history of Westclox on the internet. Do you remember those great American made clocks. So sad.It could happen to all of our manufacturers. It is poorly constructed ie the indexing hole doesn’t line up with the hole for the cutting head.It literally grabs the lead and rips it off after sharpening, thus having wasted the last (and next) 10 minutes of your life. These days, I’m utterly disgusted with the quality of their products. I have gone through three of them in as many months.
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I got on ebay and bought a couple of used and abused vintage Bostons and they have really been a great investment. They will last forever and were made with durability in mind. I sent all my old ones to the trash.The closest I could find in performance was the Carl sharpener, but it’s still not as good as the Boston. It lasted us for two years, (three people using it) but is starting to go. To its credit, two years means that it has lasted FAR longer than any other pencil sharpener we have bought for our homeschool, including a few very expensive electric ones. That said, the table clamp didn’t last long, it won’t “pull” on recycled newspaper pencils, and it is now starting to sharpen the pencils off-center (leaving a strip of wood up the side of the lead). I think I’m going to break down and buy a used Boston on eBay. It’ll be twice the price of the Carl, but I have a feeling it will last us through the remaining decade of homeschooling and justify the extra cost. I have used nearly every kind of lead sharpener devices known to exist, such as, electric, hand operated, knife and files and I can assure you that the vintage USA made Boston wall-hung pencil sharpener will consistently produce the perfect pencil point.There is also a Bostonette. Both sharpeners perform flawlessly. Something about holding a Ticonderoga wood pencil that is indescribably special. If I have done my research correctly, the Hunt Company went out of business or sold their electric sharpener line to to a Chicoms around 2009. Question. Is there a reference source availabe that a serial number for a Boton sharpener can be entered to find out the approimate date of production of the unit? But I would like to avoid the loud grinding sound it makes.Whenever I sharpen a pencil, it only sharpens one side of it. In other words, after sharpening, I look at the point, and on half of it I can see the lead, and on the other half, all I can see is wood.

Does anybody know how to adjust a KS so it will sharpen correctly. Please advise. Thank you. I find them at estate and yard sales. I learned how to date these vintage sharpeners. 1) Remove the debris bowl from the sharpener. 2) Look inside the base of the sharpener. 3) You will see a two digit number (i.e., 55). 4) That is the year the sharpener was built. The is, 55 is 1955. The guys who change the date code each year had fun with it. The is because some of the dates, have one digit, and sometimes both, in reverse (as seen in a mirror). I am assuming older ones are of better quality, as well. Thanks Mark. We had a Boston sharpener at the front of the room (had to walk past the teacher to sharpen your pencil. Iowa consolidated their schools when I entered the fourth grade, So I then had to go to another, larger school after that. That next summer they tore the old school building down and my dad helped in it destruction. I went along with him one day to watch. I found the Boston in some of the rubble (I knew it was from our room because it still had crayon markings on it. I have had that pencil ever since It is now on the wall of my wood working shop. I never new how old it was until I found out where the date stamp was. It was made in 1937 and it still works perfectly. That makes it 79 years old! I know the one I have is at least 59 years old.The old Boston sharpeners were great, you could take the cutters out and replace them. Now they are being replaced several times a year, cheap junk that doesn’t stand up in a classroom. What a waste. One with the conventional variable hole size and one is a pinch feed. I was going to put one in the basement workshop and one in the barn shop when my wife dropped the mint vintage pinch feed and broke off one of the “ears” that you pinch. I am going to try and repair this but I’m not much of a welder and I don’t know if this is pot metal or something better. Wish me luck. Both of these sharpeners are like brand new!

I remember them from private school; every classroom had at least one KS sharpener. As I progressed through the years and grades, from elementary to middle to high, the only thing that remained the same was those indestructable Boston pencil sharpeners. Each classroom had the same sharpeners through the years, and I don’t ever remember one ever becoming dull. This iconic sharpener was a well-engineered and well-built product. I even had one mounted on my desk at home. I don’t know whatever happened to it, but I know it never once failed me. That old KS sharpened many No. 2 and No. 3 pencils to a fine point. Due to the apparent lack of a good Boston KS at the time, I had to revert back to the tried and true handheld pencil sharpener (basically a sharp blade mounted in a piece of high-impact plastic with a tapered opening. It’s better than nothing, but I wish I still had my old Boston KS from my youth. Unfortunately, when I sold my old desk several years ago, the Boston went with it. Oh well. It has been torturing me for a couple years, as the blades have become dull, and it was butchering pencils, not sharpening them. I went to an office supply store looking for a Boston KS like I remember from school. It seemed like an exorbitant price for something made in China. It works great so far and it won’t get beat up like in a classroom. Hopefully it will work for awhile, but I’d rather it was made in USA. I’ll move it to the workshop and (gulp) seek a replacement for upstairs. Maybe Germany has something to offer, as German handheld sharpeners are generally excellent. After 20 years, I’m promoting it from the basement closet to the top of the stairs. Just like the one I grew up with in the ’60’s. Ahh, nostalgia! Didn’t understand then but do now. The colored pencils have a little wax coating on them and would plug up the sharpeners. Miss the smell of the chalkboard eraser cleaners that was in a spray can.I am still the proud owner of such a beautiful piece of memory.

The sharpener was in my little 3 room schoolhouse when I started school in first grade. No kindergarden then, it was added few years later. Telling my age now. I sharpened many pencils on it and so did about forty others in that little schoolroom. Surly hundreds were sharpened from grades 1-6. My little sharpener stayed right there, just waiting for me I guess. I then went on to middle school and high school. Was graduated and after a couple of years took employment with school district. Even got to clean the the little school house I spent 6 years in. There I found my little baby discarded somewhere in the junk. I guess it was just waiting for me to rebirth it and so I did. I have said all this just to say what great quality the Bosten KS was and still is. I still own and use the little jewel, it’s moved with me to 6 different states and dozens of moves. I know it to be 73 years old and was in my grade school possibly 10 to 12 years before I even started school. This sharpener is still in use in my little work shop, doing its job just like new. It has some discoloration but still works perfect. What great memories I have from it. Know that’s quality. No, I would not sell it at any price. Hope you enjoyed this. My favorite sharpeners have to be those electric pencil sharpeners from the 1980’s. Like those panasonic’s etc. Those were epic! ?? I have had two for some time and they continue to work well. I am guessing the newer one was made over 20 years ago and the other is somewhat older and has a metal rather than plastic mount. I agree that they are not as rugged as the Boston models but both sharpen very well. And I agree that the vacuum mounts and the electric sharpeners are junk. I recently inherited two Boston pencil sharpeners from my dad. The model L likely dates to his youth (or earlier) in the 1920’s or 30’s. The KS is likely one he purchased in the late 40’s.

Both still work but the cutters are worn and neither cuts as nicely as the newer X-ACTOs that I have. That said, they will likely still out last the X-ACTOs given their more robust construction. Squeeze the ears, pull it out, insert the pencil, release the ears, and commence sharpening. It auto-feeds the pencil as it is sharpened! I still like using it now! I found one in a vintage shop, and based on what I read on from your comments, I learned how to check the date inside and it appears to be 1982.Thank you for the post. As I have aged particularly since the early 1990’s I have become aware of the gradual decline in brands that were the staples of my youth. Having been born in 1950, my early classrooms were filled with many of the same products that have already been mentioned here. As I became aware of the decline in quality I also became curious as to why and I began acquiring things that I had taken for granted. I collected and restored Parker 51 fountain pens, vintage Xacto knives and pencil sharpeners from Boston,Apsco and Dixon. Firstly let me say that you cannot blame the loss in the quality of the Boston sharpeners on Xacto as the are both the victims of a much larger player. One of my vintage Xacto manuals listed the address for the company as 440 Fourth Ave.That Fourth Ave. address as it turns out does not exist today because the city changed the name to Park Ave. South in 1959 to accommodate the Real Estate interest. I was also doing some restoration work on the early Boston Ranger pencil sharpeners and wanted to acquire some replacement knobs. After some early e-mails to the company in North Carolina produced no results I finally called the company to find out why they could not acquire parts for the products they still sold. As it turns out they do not even own the manufacturing facility that produce the pencil sharpeners.

It is now nothing more than a branding operation where they import fully assembled and branded units that are distributed directly to wholesalers. Just like Nike with shoes. They just order from the manufacturer in China and then resell. At about this same time I received a catalogue in the mail from a company named schoolfix.com. While going though the pages I came across what looks to be the exact same model KS sharpener but branded the Tiger pencil sharpener. This unit was replete with replacement parts which included replacement arms with knobs. So out of curiosity I ordered 6 and discovered that not only do the arms screw on to the vintage USA made Boston units but the knobs are dead on the same. More than likely that the Tiger sharpener is being made on the same former American manufacturing machinery as the Boston KS and Rangers once were. They can be sold under any brand name. This is all about marketing not manufacturing. The real piece of enlightenment came when I discovered that Boston and Xacto which are owned by Elmer’s are in fact themselves owned by Newell Rubbermaid, at present of Hoboken, NJ but soon Atlanta,Georgia. They are just a branding business with a stock price and can pick up and go anywhere at this point in time. Worst piece of mechanical crap I’ve ever owned.Thanks to everyone who commented in this thread. You can call them vintage, retro, legacy, classic and iconic. Keep up with these important national treasures here at BrandlandUSA.com Bring Back Nabs Powered by WordPress. Mounts easily onto any horizontal surface. Adjustable 8 hole pencil guide Boston manual pencil sharpeners deliver performance Carbon steel sharpened blades, sturdy construction Sharpens composite, hardwood, even crayons The timeless manual sharpener designs by Boston are now part of the X-ACTO Precision Instruments line. This line brings the quality you remember, re-engineered for even better performance.