Hunt School Pro Heavy-Duty Electric Sharpener

Not good for school, not continuous

Strengths: Pretty colors

Weakness: It is not reliable

This pencil sharpener lasted five weeks in a second grade classroom in St. Paul, MN. Now it overheats in five minutes. The kids tested it and it failed big time. The teacher does not approve, I am sure. This is not a good product and I do not recommend buying it at all.

By Jeepers2000 - Feb 20, 2008

IF I COULD RATE IT A ZERO I WOULD.

Strengths: None

Weakness: Motor Blow Out In Two Months, Poor Workmanship, Falsely Advertised

My Exacto Boston School Pro Pencil Sharpener rating needs to be ZERO because it is a ZERO. We live in a school district that still send to the classroom and endorses the hand crank pencil sharper that screw on the wall. This is a bad idea in the classroom especially when you have 20-25 students in the class room, lined up to sharpen their pencils in the morning. The students would spend 30...
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My Exacto Boston School Pro Pencil Sharpener rating needs to be ZERO because it is a ZERO.

We live in a school district that still send to the classroom and endorses the hand crank pencil sharper that screw on the wall. This is a bad idea in the classroom especially when you have 20-25 students in the class room, lined up to sharpen their pencils in the morning. The students would spend 30 minutes in the morning just to sharpen pencils. This product is advertised as SCHOOL PRO that teachers endorsed, “SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR CLASSROOM USE. THE ONLY KID-TESTED, TEACHER-APPROVED ELECTRIC PENCIL SHARPENER” so I thought it would be a good idea for my daughter’s class, what a mistake.

I bought 4 of them for second grade classes in the building, and kept one for my home, as when it is homework time we need pencils with 3 children in the house. They were all loud, would only work for 5 pencils then shut down for at least an hour, and after only 2 months of use they all completely broke one after another. The motor would quit working and internal mechanism failed. When I gave out the pencil sharpeners I was hailed as a hero but when they broke I was scorned. I used their return policy and got all new pencil sharpeners, but the replacements all broke within 2 months also.

What I have learned from this experience is only buy a commercial grade sharpener for a class room, ask around, do research on what you are buying, read the reviews and believe them they bought it so that person would know. I had read bad reviews on this product, but I thought that person just got a bad one, but when it happened to me, I felt taken advantage of. I paid $40 each for the 5 I bought totaling $200 what an expensive lesson. If I could rate it a ZERO I would. This pencil sharpener is junk, don’t waist your money.

By msmartin - Sep 10, 2007

tried it twice

Strengths: quick and quiet

Weakness: blunt and broken pencils

First one I had within three months was only sharpening down one side of the pencils. They replaced it and within 4 months it was sharpening the pencils, but somehow it would break them about 1/4" down so when you would go to write it would fall out. Certainly not worth the money.

By hmiddleb13 - Jan 27, 2006

Boston School Pencil Sharpener

Strengths: Large holder for shavings, multiple pencil sizes, cord length

Weakness: Became dull after about 7 months, breaks pencil lead (graphite) when dull

I returned my first one after about 7 months because it was breaking the pencil lead (graphite) when sharpening inexpensive pencils. Boston replaced it with an E-ACTO. It became dull after about 7 months and is now breaking pencil lead again. Can't use it and Boston tells me there is no way to replace the blades.

By swovem - Dec 13, 2005

No Repair Parts

Strengths: It sticks well to counter

Weakness: Goes out of adjustment very quickly

This unit sticks well and hold a lot of shavings. The automatic start is operated by a thin,small spring when a pencil is put in, it pushes on a lever that will move and activate a micro switch to turn it on. This Spring Breaks very easy and then the Pencil Sharpener stays on! A metal piece of metal that acts as a auto-shut off gets out of adjusment very easily and then the pencils get sharpened...
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This unit sticks well and hold a lot of shavings. The automatic start is operated by a thin,small spring when a pencil is put in, it pushes on a lever that will move and activate a micro switch to turn it on. This Spring Breaks very easy and then the Pencil Sharpener stays on! A metal piece of metal that acts as a auto-shut off gets out of adjusment very easily and then the pencils get sharpened either too far, on the side etc; This unit is not even made in the USA. I've tried to get parts and I was told "You can not get parts for these." THESE BOSTON PENCIL SHARPENERS (model #1670) ARE JUNK. Schools should stay away from these. With the spring breaking while nobody is around it could over heat. THIS COULD BE A FIRE HAZZARD...

By anonymous; - Sep 17, 2005