ADVANTUS Medium Head Map Tacks, 3/8-Inch Shank, 3/16-Inch Head, Box of 100, Assorted Colors (MTA)

Nice color assortment.

These are good tacks. I have been sticking them into a plastic piece which is not really what they were designed for. Sometimes when I go to remove them, I pull the colored plastic head off of the pin. I am not taking any rating off since I am not using them "as designed". The tip is sharp which serves my need very well. Bright colors.

Pins worked great. We used in both a large Rand McNally US and World map that were self-mounted on foam board. The pins go in great, stay in, and pop out just the right amount. The head is small, which works for us because we wanted to pin locations close to one another, but keep that in mind as they can be difficult to see when back from a distance.

The colors look the same as they do in the pic on the product page. No, the colors aren't vibrant as if they were colored with a highlighter. The blue and the black are very distinguishable as well. The length (once I disagreed with the previous commenter on the color, I just HAD to measure them). The length does refer to the metal pin and actually you can add a millimeter for the slant of the very tip of the pin that wasn't included in the dimensions. I find this whole thing very amusing, although everyone is entitled to their opinion, which is why I added mine. I did minus a star for the "death box" they put the tacks in. I put the slightest pressure on the sides in order to move the tacks from one place to another and got stuck. After I exclaimed "why tacks, why!!" I transferred them to a little container. Give us a decent container for the things man. I'll pay the extra 25 or so cents.

For my application I had to hammer them in pretty hard and none of them bent, I only lost the head of one! Also, one was a slightly lighter color of green, didn’t bother me though.

I used pretty much all of them to stick onto a world map on my wall (drywall). I had to put a lot of force for some areas to get the pins to go in. None of the plastic tips broke in the process which often happens when you get poor quality plastic tips.

I bought these to use on a laminated world map I've hung on a wall. Two big issues. First, in my box of 100, probably 33% of the ends aren't sharp. It's like the factory process just cut the pointy end off. I had to grab a handful of yellow, for example, find a sharp one, use it to pre-push several holes, and then put a "dull-end" tack in the hole made with the sharp tack.Second problem is the head of two of the tacks just came apart from the rest of the tack as I began to push it into the map. Not fun to search the floor for tiny sharp bits that will inevitably end up in my heel.Third thing I should mention is that I knew I was getting a short tack, but just a word of warning that these are truly short tacks. They are about as tall as my pinky finger is wide.Bottom line, they're just tacks, they work fine for the most part, but I felt the need to come and review it here just in case someone else is comparing types.

My 9-year-old son has been expressing an interest in learning about the world. I decided to get a large map so that he could pick one country each week, and we would look it up on the web and learn about the country, people and culture(s). After he picks a country and we learn about it, he gets to put a map pin in the capital of that country. These map pins fit the bill perfectly!