On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:32:33 -0500, Bill
wrote:

Leon wrote:
On 1/10/2017 12:35 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jan 2017 22:36:56 -0500, Bill
wrote:

Ed Pawlowski wrote:

OTOH, the internet has made many thousands of products available that
cannot be found locally at any price. Lowe's is 7 miles, Woodcraft is
about 30 miles, but even they don't have everything.


I had a chance to visit Highland Woodworking while in Atlanta last
week.
I can easily recommend them to anyone here as a nice place to visit if
in Atlanta. I controlled myself and limited myself to a new "Lost Arts
Press" book (on mouldings) which I had been eyeing before my visit, but
I feel like I have more interest in their web site now than I did
before. Being apparently impartial, they have some tools from both Lie
Nielsen and Veritas, for instance. I tried to step around the "green
tool" section, without getting anything on me. : )

I get there once a month or so. If I get out of there dropping less
than a Franklin, SWMBO is happy. Then there are the green days. ;-)



Sounds like a trip to Sam's Club, we never get out without spending $100.


The only thing they have in common with Sam's Club is that they accept
the same currency.

They both take Sams Club credit cards, too. ;-)

They don't even remind me of my local Woodcraft or Rockler--they
actually have a variety of tenon saws (for instance).

On a business trip, I stopped into a Woodcraft in Columbus OH. It was
a big step above the local Woodcraft (at least twice the size) but
they didn't have the bredth of high-end tools, like Highland. Nice
store, though.

And though I
didn't look closely at any green tools, the space allocated for them is
substantial enough that they must have "the whole set".

They do. And every accessory and consumable, too. I believe the
invenory for their Internet business is in the store. To see if
something is in stock, they check their web site.