You will hurt your fingers tightening this thing

Your fingers will hurt and you may think you should use an aid just to get them tightened enough to use

The usability is absolute garbage and my fingers are genuinely sore and throbbing after trying to simply balance this boom arm so that the mic stays where I want it

I tightened the joints as hard as I could, and like other reviewers, nearly bruised my fingers with the amount of force necessary

And the part you grab on to in order to tighten/loosen the arms is a thin, flat piece of plastic that can really hurt the fingers when you're trying to get them nice-and-tight

As others have written you have to have strong wrists/hands/fingers to tighten it enough to stay in place

These knobs on the joints are killing my fingers and eventually had to use a wrench

I've tightened it as much as possible to the point where I dislocated and bruised my thumb and fingers and the thing still flys up

I tightened the joints as hard as I could, and like other reviewers, nearly bruised my fingers with the amount of force necessary