Works nicely but would have preferred a shorter needle portion as I'm not going through more than 5-8 sheets at a time.  The bulbous handle makes for easy griping that is comfortable and allows for greater control.  I use this for piercing my signatures for book binding and have gone though several books now and it still works great.  I have used this to pierce through my book covers as well and it works just great.  Would buy again even with longer needle.