Swordfish 40908 Ikon and Ebony Sharpener Replacement Blade, Silver

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.

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 the swordfish iKON for my pastel pencils (Pitt and carbothello) they are very damaging to the blades and you need to remember to sharpen a graphite (preferably woodless) pencil every 4-5 pastel pencils, this keeps the blades lubricated.Eventually though your blades are going to give out, you will notice that the pencil is no longer drawn inside as you turn the crank. I've been replacing the whole sharpener until I found these little replacement blades.Very easy to replace and work perfectly.Very happy that I no longer have to buy a new sharpener and can just replace the blade unit.

Sharpens my pencils well.

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 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

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

Bought as my sharpener had stopped working properly. I use it to sharpen pastel pencils which are not kind to the blade. This replacement works great and my sharpener is now back on form!