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X-Acto 1744 Heavy-Duty Electric Pencil Sharpener, Black, 1 Unit

 
X-Acto 1744 Heavy-Duty Electric Pencil Sharpener, Black, 1 Unit
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X-Acto 1744 Heavy-Duty Electric Pencil Sharpener, Black, 1 Unit

3.5(84 customer reviews)
List Price: $64.49
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Description:

Classic styling with large shavings receptacle. Heavy duty motor for frequent use. Black

Features:
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Classic styling


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Designed for high usage environments


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Heavy duty electric sharpener


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Color: Black; Sold as each


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Heavy duty


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Comes in several colors


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120V - for North American use only


Product Details:
Product Length: 10.75 inches
Product Width: 5.0 inches
Product Height: 4.75 inches
Product Weight: 0.0 pounds
Package Length: 10.9 inches
Package Width: 5.0 inches
Package Height: 4.5 inches
Package Weight: 2.8 pounds
Average Customer Rating: based on 84 reviews
Customer Reviews:
Average Customer Review: 3.5 ( 84 customer reviews )
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121 of 123 found the following review helpful:

5Competing with PanasonicFeb 20, 2010
By Brian J. Jolley
I'm taking an art class for grad school and needed a nicer sharpener. Had two cheap ones I hated. The reviews seem to heavily favor a couple of Panasonic models, but nobody seems to have them in stock. The next highest rated sharpener was this one, and it had a couple positive reviews, so I ordered it.

Pros:
Weight: Doesn't get pushed back when you stick a pencil in it.
Weight II: The motor is heavy. It takes up about half the volume of the box. It feels like a substantial device.
Motor: Steady and reasonably quiet. Not jerky or wobbly. Doesn't strain during sharpening.
Sharpener: Shaves evenly and smoothly and won't eat pencils unnecessarily fast. Produces nice, long points.
Fit: Standard Prismacolor pencils fit neatly in the hole and won't wobble during sharpening. Seems to be manufactured with rather tight tolerances.

Cons:
Sucker feet: They prevent lift, but not sliding. They should have used regular rubber feet.
Static: The plastic has a tendency to get a static charge and makes shavings cling to the outside when you empty the shaving tray. Wipes up without much trouble.

Summary:
Pros easily outweigh the cons. It performs the way you'd expect a high quality sharpener to perform. I can't imagine I'd be significantly happier with a competing product.

48 of 50 found the following review helpful:

5Not a Pencil Sharpener, it is a machineMar 18, 2010
By Nicholas
I was a little hesitant to go with this brand as I had never heard of it. Also, at the the time of purchase, this product had only 9 reviews, although all were largely positive.

However, after reading "Truth and Justice's" review, I decided to try this one out. The sharpener is everything he/she said it was. By far, this is the most powerful sharpener I have ever used in my life and I have been in numerous office environments.

To address the complaint of one reviewer that the sharpener eats the entire pencil, let me explain my experience. I just got through a stack of about 30 pencils and my experience is this is dependent on the brand/quality of the pencil. For most pencils, this was not a problem at all and the sharpening came to a natural conclusion.

For a few varieties, it did eat up a lot of pencil, but i realized after a while that the pencils were sharpened long before and I did not always need to get that sense of completion. I would just take the pencil out after a few seconds. As I mentioned previously, this thing is a machine, and if you keep the pencil in there, it will keep sharpening it until you have nothing left. I view this as part of the positive experience.

I highly recommend this unit.

33 of 35 found the following review helpful:

5Heavy duty pencil sharpenerJan 30, 2010
By SLC, Utah
So far this has been an awesome pencil sharpner. I received it quickly. Most important it is durable, when I first received it all my kids were excited to use it. And of course one of them put the eraser end in first...but I was able to pull out the metal piece and it works just fine. Worth the money, wish I would have bought this before I bought the others.

51 of 60 found the following review helpful:

1Piece of junk -- and here's why.Nov 23, 2010
By A Reader
I use an electric pencil sharpener every single day of my life, for hours at a time. The one I've relied on for years -- a "lesser" X-Acto model -- started to grind and break lead, so I figured I'd splurge and buy a top-of-the-line X-Acto model. This is not, however, top-of-the-line.

1) The blades do not sharpen the pencil. Sure, they hone it into a sharp-looking cone like all pencil sharpeners do -- but they leave a substantial flat end to the point which is, by any draughtsman's standard, not at all "sharp." Maybe this defect was a problem only with the one I bought, but for $40 I would have expected that its main usage would have at least been tested. It is NOT a "sharpener."

2) Most importantly, however, the actual blades are recessed so far into the guts of this machine that you have to reserve 3-4" of pencil to hold before the blades even engage. I frequently use pencils down to 1" or less before I ditch them, so that means I'm losing 1/3 of the life of each pencil. The sharpener I'm replacing (and to which I'm returning, after I return THIS clunker) engage almost immediately upon insertion of the pencil itself.

Yes, this review sounds insane. But if sharp pencils are your life, then don't buy this extremely poorly-designed deep-action pencil-wasting "blunter."

21 of 23 found the following review helpful:

5Xacto by BostonMar 11, 2010
By Just Trying to Help "Product Guru"
When I was a kid, we had a boston electric pencil sharpener.

So you can imagine my happiness/surprise when I saw "Xacto by Boston" on the box. I felt better about my purchase already, because Xacto means nothing to me, really, as far as pencil sharpeners go. Seeing as how I had just spent a small fortune on a pencil sharpener, I needed something to make me feel better but I had already gone through several manual and one battery powered sharpener and I really needed something as good as the ol' Boston we had when I was a child.

Other interesting details from the box:
1) This supposedly has a receptacle size 7. The largest is a 10.
2) On a scale of 1 to 4, this one is rated for "heavy" use (a 3). The only higher usage is "continuous" (a 4).
3) It has a whopping 2 year guarantee.
4) The box also says "Auto-reset prevents motor burnout". we already used this feature. My kids sharpened about 50 pencils IN A ROW. it was soooo satisfying for them to see a perfectly sharpened pencil emerge each and every time they sharpened (even my wife's friend came by and wanted to sharpen a few). But, they overheated the poor sharpener. it stopped running. Sho nuff, the next day after it had cooled down it was ready for action again!

Overall, i have to say I was VERY unhappy to spend $40 to get a good sharpener, but this one has every indication of lasting a long, long, time.

I would rate this a definite BUY, once you gag down the almost $40 price tag. I wish I had bought it to begin with!

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