XFasten Black Gaffers Tape 2 Inch x 30 Yards (90 Feet) Residue-Free Matte Black Gaffer Tape 2 Inch Non-Reflective Easy-to-Tear Floor Tape for Electrical Cords

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I originally bought this tape because I wanted something I could put over certain light reflective surfaces that shined too much in my eye with my lighting scheme at my computer desk. I like to sit in a dark room with very specific lighting. I also used it around my window frame to minimize the reflection from the sun when it hits at a specific angle.I've also used this to tape over the edge of my desk where the adhesive woodgrain looking thing was coming off. These have held for many months, and I just peeled one back and put it back on. It only left a bit of adhesive around the edges.I also recently used the tape when building a cardboard/paper layered standoff on my desk to make my mousing giant keyboard/mousepad surface even with my monitor stand base since my new monitor stand base was getting in the way of my mouse. Once all the cardboard/paper was in place under the mousepad, I taped down the edges with this tape.I also used the tape to secure a desklamp I have on top of some stacked boxes shining down light over my monitors, to make sure it doesn't tip over. It's holding perfectly and not coming undone.I'm also using it on some cardboard pieces to cover them and make them black, and I use them to block overly bright areas on my wall and to block the gaps between my monitors which look ugly.All in all, the tape looks great, the black matte is relatively unreflective, it sticks great, stays stuck, but can be undone and restuck, doesn't seem to leave much if any residue except maybe around the edges a bit. Also, when you tear it, it comes apart straight and clean, which is incredible. You have to apply a bit of effort, but then it just snaps apart like magic when you try to tear it like a sheet of paper.I don't know how this stacks up against other gaffer tapes, and since I don't gaff, I can't comment on whether it's good for gaffing. ;)

In the field, for video and audio equipment as well as around the house, this is the fifth or sixth brand of gaffer tape I've used over the years, and it's different from the others. With this one the cotton cloth is not impregnated with a binder/filler material like all the others. That binder makes the other tapes stiffer, and those stiffer edges make it easier for the fingers and thumbs of your two hands to act like scissors to start a tear at the desired length. Precisely because it is more flexible, this tape requires a much stronger pinch between the index fingers and thumbs of each hand, with the two grips very close to each other, to start a tear. While the other tapes had matte finishes and weren't very reflective, they did have some shine. This tape is perfectly non-reflective, which can be important for professional applications in a darkened theater. The binder in the other tapes also makes it opaque, while this tape is has some transparency since it is just strong cotton cloth with the adhesive. You would only care about that if you were trying to block light with it. This tape is very strong, as strong as the others, with virtually no stretch to it. But its adhesion to surfaces is not as strong. For example, I have on hand a roll of ProGaf tape, also available on Amazon. This XFasten tape is easier to pull off the roll, and when I stick a piece of this and an similar piece of ProGaf to my file cabinet, the XFasten tape seems to need only about half as much force to peel it off. This may have more to do with the flexibility than the adhesive itself. With less flexibility the radius of curvature at the line where the tape is being pulled off is greater, so there is more surface area of adhesive stretching to resist removal. So, compared to the ProGaff tape, which is like the other I've used, here's the bottom line. This tape:1. Is much harder to tear by hand2. Has less adhesion to surfaces, but still enough, in my opinion, for most jobs.3. Would probably have even less adhesive transfer, when removing after a long time, than the others.4. Is much more flexible for following contours and corners5. Will be more invisible in a dark room.6. Would not good for blocking light.