On 12/28/2011 10:27 AM, Doug Miller wrote:
On 12/28/2011 12:55 PM, Pete C. wrote:

Honestly, I haven't broken any Craftsman or HF hand tool that I wasn't
*seriously* abusing.

Then you've gotten damn lucky with the HF tools. IME, they're garbage.

I went into a HF once. It was next door to a skateboard shop my son
wanted to check out. I had long heard people rave about HF, so I went
in to see. I was not impressed. Most of the merchandise seemed like
cheap Asian junk, probably bought at customs auctions (same way Trader
Joe's used to buy a lot of its stuff in the early days, before they
began doing a lot of private label deals.) This was a good few years
ago, so maybe they've improved their merchandise lines since then.