Thanks to all the other reviewers of all the similar things, I think this may just be the MacGyver/Ginsu of shoe horns and I bought it.  It is firm, sturdy, sleek...  I bought it for an upcoming surgery.  I think it will not only help me with getting my shoes on an off, however.  I think it will be one of the fiercest, most versatile weapons I have ever owned, and will probably not only last the next 40 or 50 years of my life, but probably my future children and grandchildren's lives...

Unless it rusts which would make it a less than stellar shoe horn, but still a mighty weapon in its own right.