I gave this wine opener as a gift to my husband for Christmas. He also received a handheld wine opener of a different brand from his father. Besides the fact that a piece broke off the second time we used it, it wasn't able to fit many of our bottles of wine because it wasn't tall enough, and out of three bottles we opened with it, it pushed the cork down into one of the bottles. When comparing the weight and sturdiness of the opener my father-in-law got my husband and the one I got, there was no comparison. Mine felt like I picked it up at the dollar store.