Allstar PerformanceALL14253 Ultra-Professional Grade GAFFER’S Tape, Matte Black - 2" x 55 Yards/165' (83% More Than Standard 30 Yard Roll), Premium 11.5 Mil Thickness - Made in the U.S.A.

This is great tape!Previously, I'd have thought that any tape that looked like this would be as good. But apparently that's not always the case. I'm tossing a roll of a lookalike product in the trash, after having it fail to stick to everything I've tried to use it on. It would stick for a few hours, or a day, and then simply give up and fall off.This stuff stays where you put it, and holds firmly even for weeks at a time. Also, there's no residue on removal.I'm back here buying more of the good stuff.

This tape is AWESOME. It actually saved me $100's in having to replace my mother's backyard door.I brought this tape in June 2014, and used it for the first time in Aug. 2014 when the back door to my mother's house completely came off the hinges. This door is actually not that old, about 12 years, I guess, but not very sturdy wood. The original door was thick and heavy, but after decades of harsh snowy Winters and rainy Spring seasons, nature finally took it's toll on the door and it needed to be replaced. The old sturdy door was replaced with a cheap door that the city put in for free under this program designed to help senior citizens. Well, instead of replacing the old worn out door pane and hinge, they attached a long, thin, strip of wood (that swings out from the door jam), to the pane, drilled holes in this thin piece of wood, and used 1/2" nails to attach the piece of wood to the new door which was actually made of cork sandwich between thin wood. The door came completely off the hinge, a few times before, unbeknown to me until this time, because the nails are so short that they only drive about 1/4" into the door. My mother had always managed to get someone to put the door back up.Well, this past winter on the east coast was as long and harsh a winter as it's ever been in decades, causing considerable damage to many homes. And in late August, yep, you guess it, the entire door fell completely off the hinge, again. The electric man had came over that day to replace the meter, which was in the back yard. After he left, I went to close the door, and it literally fell off the hinge, I had to put in some great effort to catch it and keep it from literally falling to the ground. The cork that the nails goes into was so damaged, there was no way we were getting it back up with nails.It was 90 degrees outside. And after two hours of me and my teenage daughter sweating profusely and me grumbling under my breath, I had to accept the realization that this door was not going back up, at least not in the manner it was designed to. My daughter stood looking at me pitiful, wondering what in the world I (her mom) was going to do, just she and I in the house. So we got the door back up on the top cemented step and just laid it across the opening of where the door was supposed to be and came back inside the house. It was around 5PM on a Friday afternoon, bad time for a door to come off the hinge and needing replacement.My daughter said, "mom what are you going to do?, we can't just leave the back of the house open like that"I've always been pretty good at fixing things, and improvising, but this was one situation, I wasn't so sure I could fix, and from the look on my daughter's face, she didn't look too hopeful either. The door was cheap, but it was still heavy, and she and I continuous lifting it in an effort to get it back up was taking a toll on our backs. We have a shed kitchen door with two locks on it, so if push came to shove, it would have just had to secure us through one night--that meant, I'd be sleeping like one-eye jack, and trust me, that did enter my mind.So I said to her, "I don't know, but I'll figure out something. Right now I'm just too frustrated to think."So I went upstairs and got out of the sweaty shirt, all the while thinking to myself, "you can't leave that door like that." There must be something you can do to get it back up. And just while I was thinking that I would have to leave it like that, and pay someone tomorrow to buy and put in a new door, it suddenly hit me that I had one more chance at bat, and with that revelation, I went charging back down stairs to the living room where my daughter was, and I screeched, "I got it! I got it! I know how we can get the door back up." Then I told her about this gaffer's tape I had brought a couple months ago that I haven't used yet. I said to her that I read reviews on Amazon about how strong and durable it was, so it's got to work.Without waiting for her response, I ran back up stairs and got back into my blouse. Then I grabbed the gaffer's tape that was in my bedroom and took off running back downstairs. I immediately fell into a fit of laughter at the expression I saw on my daughter's face, as if she was saying in her thoughts, "what the hell are you going to do with a roll of tape?"And once I started laughing, she laughed too. Then she just said, "mom." and I went, "I know. I Know. But we got one more chance at bat. This is it. Do or die."We got that door back up using gaffer's tape within 30 minutes.That thin strip of wood I told you about that swung out from the pane?, was how we did it. We prop the door up on the top step with bricks and held it as close to that thin strip of wood as best we could, and with me on the inside of the house and my daughter on the outside, I past long strips of tape between the door jam for her to reach, and we both tape our sides of the door, taping the long thin piece of wood that was attached to the pane to the jam of the door. We started in the center to secure the door, then worked the top and bottom, alternately, and we only used about 1/3 of the roll.Fast forward to three weeks later, the door has held up better than it did with nails in it, opens and closes better than new. As I'm finishing up this review, my daughter came in my bedroom to see what I was doing. I told her I was writing a review on the use of Gaffer's tape, how we put the door back up with it. She just smiled proudly. (She's not one for working around the house, trust me)SAVED BY GAFFER'S TAPE.! It'll Always Have A Place in my Home.

It's not Gaffer's tape. If you're shopping around for this kind of tape, you're probably a little fussy about your tape. Me too. I usually keep mine in a tin. The roll Allstar Performance sent me was pretty bashed up. It was well packaged, not loose inside the package and the box had no damage, so it had to have been bounced around prior to shipping. It's OK, usable, though I'll probably have to short myself the stuff that's not-so-sticky-separating from itself or the roll, and I'll just need to be more careful to make sure it won't fold into itself, rip (or not), like a dented up roll can do. I dunno, at the price of good product, you'd think they'd treat it as such.It's much nmore flexible, and It ends up much gummier after time than my black gaffer's tape bought elsewhere. I wouldn't use it for long-term, or even maybe more than a couple of weeks. The adhesive gets really, really soft.I'm not mad, just a little disappointed that I'll need to make do. It's not worth shipping back; I'll use it.

If you do any kind of serious video work, you should absolutely have at least one roll of gaffer's tape in your equipment bag at all times. Black, two-inch wide gaffer's tape is probably the most generically useful, so it's the best place to start, but you can get it in a variety of colors and styles. This tape sticks to just about everything, but can (almost always) be removed without destroying whatever it happened to be stuck to. Use it to hang backdrops, place marks on a set, fix broken light stands, mount a microphone, create props, whatever. It's better than duct tape and more useful than black electrical tape - never leave home without it.

It's hard to love a $20 roll of gaffer's tape, but when you need something that you know will work sometimes you have to pay for it. I gladly pay for this tape because it always works. Always.My one complaint is that the roll I got this time was poorly placed in the box with a bunch of other stuff and it was pretty majorly kinked, through about 1/4 of the roll. For those of you as particular as I am, you like really nice, flat lines, and clean seams. After all, sometimes it's all about function AND form. Anyhow, it's a small gripe but something to consider when boxing these up.

I used regular duct tape to tape down wires for gymnastic meets for speakers and computers at the different apparatus for a few years until we hired a team to put in a sound system at a big event we held and they had this stuff. It's awesome. No gluey sticky mess all over the wires that takes me days to remove with goo gone or on the floor where the duct tape was peeled off. I've only left the gaffers tape down for 2 days so I can't say how easy it is to remove if you leave it down for a very long time or how it holds but for the 2 days I use it each year it's a good hold on wires that get walked on with no problems of coming loose. Have stuck it down on wood gym floors and those soft gym floors with not issues. It sticks to everything and sticks well. So I've been using this stuff since around 2010 and will continue to.

It's like "duck" tape, but all fabric and leaves ZERO glue/residue behind.I originally bought this to use on my home-gym's weight stack risers/guide rods. There was too much noise and rattling for my liking with the rollers on bare metal. I put a 5' strip of this on each riser and the noise has noticeably lessened.Since then; I've also used it on the handle of a  folding knife  for extra grip, since you can easily stretch the tape to conform to contours. And it's original use... For covering up a cord running across a (carpeted) room. folding knife

This is exactly what gaffer tape is supposed to be: matte cloth like finish, easy to rip and sticky enough to do the job yet easy to peel off once we have to remove it. I say this because I have purchased various brands of gaffer tape (different price points too) that don't deserve to be called gaffer tape.So this tape is great.

I like this tape, it sticks like crazy... if I had to make a complaint, the only thing I'd say is, sometimes it's difficult to deploy because it's so sticky, it's a little difficult to get off the roll. However, the thing is, I need it to be that sticky on the stage, so I don't really could that as a negative.

I like this stuff a lot, used duct tape for years but always wanted to try gaffers tape. Didn't know where to buy it locally and so when I thought about checking online I was a little apprehensive about ordering it because I was not sure what I'd get. This seems to be good stuff but of course you pay more than duct tape.

Great. Haven't come up with anything that it hasn't worked for. Comes off easily enough that I can even wind small strips back onto the roll and reuse them a couple times before tossing them.