Swordfish 40908 Ikon and Ebony Sharpener Replacement Blade, Silver

This sharpener is apparently old school strong and the best and I hope helpful I have done some research on these and other sharpeners because if you sharpen with the odd graphite pencil this cleans and lubricates the blade another alternative is use graphite as metal touching metal needs the odd help if you use it to cut the colored pencils

The swordfish icon manual sharpener is great and perfect for pasta pencils, they don’t snap my break and you get a really nice time. It’s the only one I would use after some trial and error

I use this for my pastel pencils. I do a great many animal portraits and use a mixture of soft pastels and pastel pencils. Pastel pencils are not easy to sharpen properly with many sharpeners, but this doesn't break the pastel and sharpens to a great point for detail work. I wouldn't use anything else now.

After regularly purchasing these amazing blades for my pastel artwork, all of a sudden they're not working properly and each replacement is blunt that I've been sent. I'm being forced to look elsewhere. Have complained to Amazon who are now investigating.

This was recommended (after I had bought 2 other conventional sharpeners for pastel colours!) I got this sharpener blade in a bundle with the sharpener which made the replacement blade almost free.It does the job but lost a star because when the tip does break it jams the mechanism and you have to disassemble the sharpener and manually remove the blockage before putting it back together. The shavings container holds a lot as the shavings resemble fine powder not big shaving flakes.

its brilliant that i have spare blades for my sharpener , saves the expence of buying the hole new pencil sharpener

Must have for pastel pencil users, if the leads are hard enough. Derwent pencil leads are too soft for it

As far as I am concerned this is the best rotary sharpener I have ever had, it will sharpen coloured pencils but what I like the most about it is, it will sharpen my pastel pencils without breaking them. Added bonus is that when the sharpener does start to dull you can buy a replacement blade without having to buy another full sharpener, I use it for all my pastel work and its terrific, highly recommend it.