I loved my ebow. The only down side to it was its small size. Left it on top of an amp head at a gig, and when breakdown time came it had walked away. Very annoying. I had a friend who had one that was chrome-colored (still plastic though) and self-activating. You stuck it over the guitar strings and it turned on automatically. That was very cool. It wasn't the new style with the 2 modes though. I never found the second mode to be all that useful, but I liked it enough to miss it a lot, and someday I'll buy another one.