Useful when picking pins fell down. Consistent, vigorous, it fulfills its role of bloodhound tracking pins and needles run. With its plastic case, it takes its place in the sewing box, and sometimes perform unusual tasks. Having lost a small magnet on a painful finger by making a tomato sauce, I realize, and in desperation, I appeal to the magnet. I moved carefully on the pizza ready to go into the oven, and Trac! The fugitive was hiding in the sauce! A great relief and demonstrate the effectiveness of iron-with-horse. I do not use it every day, but when I use it, it is there, ready to help.