Helix Oxford Metal Compass & Pencil, Navy Blue

Excellent product

It's great quality. It makes that noise...

Well, this is a ruler, so not a particularly glamorous thing to review .Someone elsewhere mentioned that he has never seen a ruler where the centimetres go in the opposite direction to the inches and how that makes the ruler useless. I have a couple of other rulers, both of which are laid out this way, and one of them is a sixty or seventy year old steel ruler, you know, from the days when a faulty ruler could cause your death or a world war:-). One of my sons also has a ruler laid out this way, and only my wife has one in her desk which has inches and cm going in the same direction. I can only asssume the other reviewer hasn't seen or used many rulers.Anyway, that said, this ruler is very lightweight, transparent (which is why I wanted it as both my other rulers are not) and can probably put up with a good deal of bending before it breaks. If I had one gripe it;s that it's perhaps a bit TOO bendy. The unwanted side effect of this is that it isn't an effective lower back scratcher, compared with my steel ruler.In summary, it's dirt cheap, it does what it should do and I recommend it.

Good serviceable ruler

I only needed a pair of compasses which worked perfectly

This ruler is beautifully clear so that the markings stand out really well on it, which are in black. It is important to have an imperial system (inches) as well as a metric system (cm & mm) on rulers, and this ruler has this: inches on one side and cm on the other, also with half-inch and 1/8 inch markings on one side and mm markings on the other side. Smooth edges on both sides of the rule make it ideal for underlining printed text. It also feels quite durable with a certain degree of flexibility.

to be honest it works well like i cant fault but bcos i had it for a long time the plastic tightening thing broke and so the whole thing was kind of useless i can just about use it whilst the tightening plastic broke a lil.

Good ruler used many things also kids school value for money .thank you