Beautiful to hold and behold. I actually spent hours at first just fidgeting with it for the sheer pleasure and in order to get properly acquainted with it. I even bragged about it my anthropology class ("Body, Craft and Technology") and let students handle it and guess what it was. While fidgeting with it, I felt the edge of the cutter to be a little rough, especially as compared with my Veritas Micro-Adjust marking gauge. Veritas is very sharp and cuts beautifully but the line it leaves is too fine for me to see. This one makes a satisfyingly deep and visible line. Since I often like to enhance its visibility by running a 0.5 mechanical pencil through it, this gauge has a real advantage over Veritas. I can just put the pencil in the groove and follow it freehand. The tip will stay in the groove. Veritas gauge makes too fine a line for that. So far, I haven't felt the need to use the micro-adjust feature and I think it will take some time to get used to it. All in all, I think it is a both very practical, efficient, solid and well-designed as well as beautiful to (be)hold.