It's pretty good! The knurling is nice and grippy, everything feels rock solid stable, and the fact that the bar is 20kg and takes standard collars makes including it into a routine nice and unintrusive. The only downside is that the coating of the sleeves rubs of very quickly and leaves the bar prone to rusting. Then again, this is an axle bar, it doesn't need to be pretty, right?

Not quite the EZ curl bar fairy special, but not far from it either. The knurling has a good bit of bite to it, the sleeves spin well, and so far the coating has held up well for me. If you want a basic curl bar with no special features, this one fits the bill.

They're pretty good cast iron plates. Weight tolerances were very accurate for me, they look nice, only the coating tends to chip off after a few years. Not a big deal, especially considering how cheap they are.

Pretty decent piece of kit. The overall build quality is solid and the coating has held up well enough after a few years of use, there's only some chipping on the sleeves as expected. Knurling is a medium mountain type - could be a little bit more aggressive, but that's ultimately a matter of preference. The size is this trap bar's biggest selling point and of course it comes with benefits and drawbacks - if you're short on space (especially for carries!) this bar is great. The obvious drawback is the length of the sleeves - at 40 cm they're very short. If you're using exclusively bumper plates, you will top out at about three plates and change, but if you're using cast iron or steel plates, the length should be sufficient for the vast majority of lifters. Another drawback is that the bar is not rackable in the typical sense - the sleeves already start on the inside of whatever uprights you're using, so if you actually want to lift out of the rack, you'll have to separate off a bit of sleeve space with collars. Of course that leads to there being even less loadable sleeve space, so if you're looking for a trap bar to do heavy rack pulls with, this is definitely not the one you should be considering. Personally, I only use the bar for deadlifts, RDLs, and farmer's carries, and it does a decent enough job there.

Overall super mediocre. Knurling is so passive that it might as well not exist, build quality in general is alright but nothing special. I got it for 20 bucks from a lady getting rid of her ex-boyfriend's stuff and it's OK for that price. At full price I'd consider other options instead.