A buddy and I made a tool run today

Started at Tool Land - warehouse type place with three level heavy duty
shelf units with moderate to heavy duty machines on each shelf. In
the spaces without shelf units it's metal lathes, mills, cabinet saws
shapers and aisles of nail guns, routers, grinders, belt and ROS
sanders,
chop saws, miter saws, compound miter saws and sliding compound
miter saws. And at the front, by the cash register, glass display
cases of chisels, planes, Starrett squares, rules and a set of Japanese
chisels that are outrageous - and only $900 for the set of six. The
smell of cutting oil and cosmoline (or whatever they're using now)
fills the air - but not in an unpleasant way. If you looked hard
enough,
they even had some Festool stuff.

Next stop was a WoodCraft store - all neat and tidy, well lit and nicely
divided into "Carving, Turning and Cutting" hand tools, "Hardware and
Hand Tools", "Wood, Books and Videos" and area of floor models -
bandsaws, lathes, router table and the like - and a small dedicated area
just for Festool tools.

The third stop was the mental whiplash - Harbor Freight. Never saw
so much crap in one place. The only brand name I found in the place
was a Stanley screwdriver.

End of the day take - Festool Trion PS 300 EQ pendulum jigssaw -
with slick Systainer (a stackable tool case that I'll actually keep
the tool in) and a two D-cell, 1500 volt, tennis racket shaped,
bug zapper type flying insect killer. Range of purchase prices:
$9.99 to $280, price of batteries not included.

Guess which one got used first. Hint - ZZZZZZZZ-AP!

Review of jigsaw to be posted - when the batteries give out
on my other purchase.

Was a good day.

charlie b