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   Dave | Nov 18, 2005 06:38pm | #1

   Are you kidding?  For 75 bucks, even if all it does is set on you bench and look good it's a deal!  Dang...where is that store?

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   maxp | Nov 18, 2005 07:13pm | #2

   I guess I am cheap but I quite often make offers at my local big box stores and surprisingly buy some stuff way cheap- Normally anything on a close out is open to offers - I didn't need it but bought a delta jointer the same way - offered 100.00 new still in the box - stand etc.- Not the greatest jointer in the world but may be the greatest hundred dollar one!

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

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   cicero | Nov 21, 2005 07:08am | #4

   And I thought I was bad:-)

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   jptenberg | Nov 22, 2005 07:27pm | #5

   Why buy crappy tools, even if they're cheap?  If you were to NOT buy five cheap tools at $75 each, then you could buy something nice for $375 that you night actually use, and you wouldn't loose all that precoius shop space...

   Just my 2 cents worth, as I too have a tool addiction.Peter

   jpswoodworking.com

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   maxp | Nov 22, 2005 09:17pm | #6

   oh my problem is that I am an equal opportunity tool addict-  I will buy expensive tools and cheap crappy tools if it feels like a "bargain"

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   Knotscott | Nov 19, 2005 02:49pm | #3

   I'm guilty of similar unauthorized expenditures....just b/c it was a good deal! Good story, LOL!

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   lamadriver | Feb 10, 2006 10:06am | #8

   We've all got tool addictions of one sort or another so don't miss a chance to save a few bucks. Besides it just feels good to pit the big box stores against one another and watch them outbid one another.

   Thomas Carlyle [1795-1881] said it best, "Man is a tool-using animal. Weak in himself and of small stature, he stands on the basis of some half-square foot, has to straddle out his legs lest the very winds supplant him. Nevertheless, he can use tools, can devise tools: with these the granite mountain melts into light dust before him: seas are his smooth highway, winds and fire his unwearying steeds. Nowhere do you find him without tools. Without tools he is nothing; with tools he is all."

   I have a copy of this on my workshop wall and point  to  it to bolster and justify my tool addiction whenever the wife starts giving the evil eye.  Remember, blade guards are for wussy's or so I told the Doc as he stitched up my thumb in the ER...

    

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   mudman | Nov 25, 2005 07:46pm | #7

   Sounds like a good deal to me. When I make a reasonable offer on closeout stock they never budge. Lowes seems to be able to haggle more.

   Mike