Some of their products are good and they come out with some ideas but on the whole they make many copies of better quality original gear. For exemple the ferrocerium rod on their magnesium bar is badly glued. You have to change the O-ring on their mach safe because it's not water tight. I much prefer to buy originals and when I visit the camping aisle in a store it's not uncommon to see a whole aisle with only Coghlan's gear in their ugly red and green package and it makes me feel I'm in a Soviet Union country.