It looks strong and sturdy enough, certainly for home and occasional use. I've only just got it and I'm sure it will be fine in use, but, my immediate gripe with it (unless I'm missing something, perhaps there's some magicians trick to it) is that in order to get the "string" or it actually is a braided cord end over the nut and underneath the strings you have to take the strings off. There is no "break" in the strings. I thought maybe you could push the cord into the plastic clamp thing it would come out and you could unknot it to then thread the cord under the strings, but, no, at least not so far as I can tell. So, it's strings off to get it on then. Ahh, dummy, you just loop it through itself don't you ...... Don't be caught out like me folks, I nearly cut the cord....