The compass is comfortable to hold and is well packaged for the practical use. Completely impractical are the small clamp mounts for the mine and the tip. The particles are made of plastic with a metal screw. Our daughter has the Mine 1x tried tighten, then the thread was broken the circle there. In a plastic-metal combination logic, it always wins the metal. Although the package is not a replacement tip in, but spare mounts. Man raises because of a cent spare part off the whole circle. Totally impractical for children!