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- Thread starter RescueRiley
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I at least get doubles more like triples or more just ordered 5 red farmers at the place that we can't mention for some reason? and they are even less now!!!!!!!
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I do, particularly of things that have been discontinued that I believe do the job better than the replacements.
I am a contractor and do not limit this to just tools, I have one brand knife that I like and I keep buying every one I can find, even though it is almost a decade since they quit making it, but in that decade I have lost ONE, and replaced it with 6 more, so I should have enough to carry till i die.
I like the personal things very much, I try ten or more hammers before I buy one, because they are not all alike, they have differences in handle angle and twist, and I look for older Stanley socket chisels, because no one as made a chisel as well as the STW in connecticut, and they stopped making the good ones early in the 60's. Its the same with Axes, the good ones seem to have died out 60 years ago, when chain saws started to show up. Use one good axe, and you find out why they were so valued.
I am a contractor and do not limit this to just tools, I have one brand knife that I like and I keep buying every one I can find, even though it is almost a decade since they quit making it, but in that decade I have lost ONE, and replaced it with 6 more, so I should have enough to carry till i die.
I like the personal things very much, I try ten or more hammers before I buy one, because they are not all alike, they have differences in handle angle and twist, and I look for older Stanley socket chisels, because no one as made a chisel as well as the STW in connecticut, and they stopped making the good ones early in the 60's. Its the same with Axes, the good ones seem to have died out 60 years ago, when chain saws started to show up. Use one good axe, and you find out why they were so valued.
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GTF just out of curiosity what type of knife was it...
Less?
I paid $20 each for mine (with free shipping, too!), and they went back up to $28 each about the next day.I thought I was about the only one that picky when buying tools.
Your are quite right, though! Mass produced items can still have individual characteristics that make one better than all the others on display. Especially in the case of tools with wooden handles, I examine them VERY CLOSELY for knots, sapwood, grain, twist, warp, etc. Details matter to some of us!