Swordfish40908 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

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

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.

I repeat order this item, and more often than not I’m sent a faulty blade that either doesn’t turn, doesn’t fit or is completely blunt. I require this item for work, and it would be really great if you could send me functioning replacements and not faulty unusable ones. Beyond frustrating.

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!

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.

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