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I have a high quality manual sharpener, the only problem is they don't mesh well with low quality pencils, if anyone's wondering why I included an electric sharpener for the purposes of this image. The top pencil s a pretty typical result with my manual sharpener, the bottom is an old boston brand electric sharpener. The manual sharpener has a tendency to pull the lead straight out of the wooden shaft and get jammed with wood shavings and bits of lead. No such problem with the electric model. Using cheap HB #2 pencils the results aren't stellar but they are imho acceptable enough to follow along with the plurality of written instruction from Loomis, Hogarth etc. and to that end I feel alright recommending them but pensive about recommending a manual sharpener as consequence. Of course, it really could just be this particular brand of sharpener and this particular brand of pencil don't get along, too.