MAG-Mate XX0044 Magnetic Viewing Film, High-Resolution Magnetic Field Inspection Tool, Works on Any Permanent Magnet, Reusable Film, 3.125” X 3.375”, Brown

Update: Whoops, my mistake. It's a plastic protective film that peels right off. Changed to five stars, exactly as advertised. Ignore the below, I'm just keeping it there in case anyone else makes the same mistake. See picture. It works decently enough, but what the heck? Definitely not as advertised.

Why did you pick this product vs others?: Works pretty well. I'm using it to view the flux fields in motors, planning to build my own linear motors.

My application here is primarily for helping to define the limits of the magnetic field of guitar and bass pickups. This turned out to be much more frustrating than expected. The magnetic field of some pickups are easier to define if the individual polepieces used are indeed the magnets. Bar slug or blade pickups (not visible) are harder to determine where the magnetic field truly was, as the single magnet within the copper coil was otherwise hidden to the eye (underneath the plastic pickup cover). Thus, I'm giving this item only 3-stars.

Excellent. Lots of fun

Comes with obvious creases and scratches. Has a bizarre "protective" film on top with obnoxious bright white lines that's almost impossible to remove, but apparently you're supposed to know to do this somehow. The sheet is fragile and you think you going to break it trying to remove this film that only reviewers (no instructions) told you to remove. After all that, it's not very sensitive, and it retains a fuzzy ghost image of the last thing you measured. (See image -- there's no magnet there, just creases and ghost images.) Meh.

Really cool!

Cool item to show children the fascinating world of magnetization

This magnetic film in the description does not show it having two really big white lines going through it, nor does it appear being so glossy as to being reflective. It also will not lay flat on the surface that it is supposed to be displaying the magnetic field of. Bottom line, this is unusable for photographing the magnetic field of anything without your hand in the picture holding it down against the surface, and your reflection is so obvious it requires playing with the lighting to capture any usable image with it. It might be ok for a school class just to demonstrate that something has a magnetic field but its not usable for much of anything else.

Amazing product worked really well.

Awesome for double-checking the orientation of my magnets/connected magnets for magnetic polish patterns! The dark sections are the two poles and the light sections are the furthest points from the poles/where pole lines meet. You will not be able to tell north vs. south pole, though. You need different tools for that.

Neat little sheet of magnetic viewing film. Works great for locating magnets in most objects.

I purchased this film to verify magnetic pickup for a wheel bearing, it did not work at all for my purpose and required a significantly strong magnet to activate results on the film.

Useful when you need it, I keep it in my wallet and use it at work all the time