Comments about Koh-I-Noor Pencil Lengthener:

I bought this to use with colored pencils more than anything else. I own several colored pencils of different brands, shapes, and styles. None of them fit in the lengthener. It's too small for all of them. In fact the only pencils I can get to fit in it are standard #2 pencils that my son uses for school. For me, it's totally useless.

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This thing is great! My softer pencils became "unusable" so quickly, but now I can comfortably use them down to the nub. Very cool and recommended.

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My pencil extender of 20 years finally broke, the other one is still going. I can't think of anything I've owned that lasted that long

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This product allows us cheap skates to use a pencil until it is soshort it falls out of the holder. I can now use all of the pencil.

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I like the smooth, sturdy feel of the wood and metal (though it's quite light), and it seems like it's well-made enough.

It fits normal everyday pencils, Staedtler sketching pencils, and Derwent sketching watercolor, and Graphitone pencils (basically their hexagonal-barrel pencils and thinner pencils) . However, my Derwent charcoal pencils and drawing pencils cannot fit at all (round-barrel, thick for pencils). I have some watercolors (General's Kimberly) with metal endcaps, and that metal is just intrusive enough that it makes them too thick to fit in these pencil lengtheners as well, so if you have pencils with a similar design, keep that in consideration.

The metal opening can open and tighten slightly to accommodate different width pencils, and locks in place securely with a metal ring-thing that you push up to tighten around the top. It fits most pencils, it seems, just watch out for the thicker ones and ones with any peculiar endcap designs. Overall, it does its job well and I think these can last a while.

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I've been using these extenders for years and with the high cost of pencils this is a must have. You can virtually use ALL your pencil lead with this tool!

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The item was small with little to no chance of damage but was packed in a way too big box. I find packaging of this sort a big waste of money, a padded envie would have worked in this case. But you are not alone as many co's have this same problem and I find it rather disgusting. The product is great...no problem there and I do thank you for that.