I've never used the more expensive stuff on here, but this stuff works great. I'm definitely buying more. If you're like me and didn't think you would use this stuff, you're wrong.

For whatever it's worth, it may not be as cheap, but the TechSpray wick you sell is 100% made right here in the US. I live in Amarillo, TX and have walked through their wick production line. They have a long machine that braids it and draws it down. It's fluxed and put onto these huge spools with thousands of feet of wick on them. There is a lady who sits there and hand winds each of the small quantity spools. They even do their own labels.
As a hobbyist, at least sometimes I get to make a decision about where my parts and supplies are sourced or manufactured, so if that's important to anyone else, I wanted to point out the domestic alternative.

A petty comment I'm sure but as of 12/2/14 the product description has a formatting fail. It looks like you were trying to make a link, but failed.

You can steal someone’s diagonal cutters for a minute, but you’d better ask before touching their solder wick.[

Solder wick](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solder_wick) is a composed of copper threads braided together

A brief note on the use if solder wick: It conducts heat. A lot of heat. It is generally a good idea to cut a piece an inch or two long and use that so you don't transfer heat all the way down the roll, and in the process melt part of the spool.

As you may have guessed, grabbing it with you fingers during use will probably hurt a fair bit, so grab the wick with something like pliers or tweezers, or best of all, hemostats, which will hold your wick nice and steady so you just have to think about the work.

Just bought two of these on my last order. I've never found cheap desoldering braid that's worked even half as well as this stuff, and I am totally impressed. I will absolutely be ordering more when the need presents itself. This is perfect for my purposes, but that said, I'm definitely interested to see how much better the expensive stuff is - if at all

This stuff worked really well for me when I assembled my first custom PCB. +1!

Completely pointless. Am I missing something here, am I supposed to spread the wick part? It's not working for me.

this wick was more then i needed when i attempted soldering a smd kit for the first time.

I don't know. I usually buy my solder by the lb and solder wick in units of 100ft. I'm not doing production, but these are supplies that last forever with no expiration date. I'd rather buy a 10 year supply than a 1 year supply and there's usually a discount for the bulk amounts, imho. If you get the longer lengths, I'd be inclined to purchase them.