The KUM Masterpiece sharpener can create the longest point of any hand-held manual pencil sharpener on the market. It features a machined magnesium body and a removable automatic brake. Once the brake is removed, you can sharpen (remove) a pencil's wood casing and expose its graphite core for shading, extended writing, and advanced graphite manipulation. Each masterpiece sharpener comes in a storage pouch with two replacement blades. Made in Germany