Is This Really a Good Soldering Iron?

As a soldering iron it's an amazing piece of kit. shape tip gives you a different contact patch onto the component that you're trying to solder or desold at the time. At 56 quid you could actually buy two and just put different tips in and just work work with two of them. i like the idea of powering it from usb because it means you can power it off a laptop if you're out in the middle of a field somewhere, says darien.