This thing is nothing more than a wood dowel with two rubber hand grips slid over each end. Because the hand grips are loose and can spin on the dowel, the thing doesn't even work right, especially with heavier weights (you're just turning the hand grips and the weight isn't rising).The nylon cord just has a small wood peg attached to it's end. It DOES NOT have a substantial-looking bar to hold the weight as the picture indicates (and which was also the reason I chose this model). The only way to attach a weight is to simply run the cord through the hole in the weight and tie it with a knot!And the price? The dowel, the grips, and the nylon cord couldn't have cost the "manufacturer" more than about one dollar. Some might call it "premuim pricing." I'd call it a rip.