Yes.

I used to chuckle people who bought tools at estate sales and
with the intent of getting 'new ones'.

I always thought if it - better steel and stronger than new shinny ones.
And the 'moral' end of it was a bad taste as well.

Martin

On 9/25/2017 4:03 AM, mike wrote:
On 9/23/2017 10:29 PM, Martin Eastburn wrote:
It is a little old, but likely coming of age! :-)

Seems that Sears is tired of hunting down companies that
would make a line of tools for them.Â* Every few years the product
line would be changed as the manufacturer would win a new contract.

I suspect they ran out of low end bidders other than overseas. So the
Craftsman brand was sold to "Stanley Black & Decker".Â* Might be
interesting to watch and see the quality level of different tools in
coming years.Â* Will the Craftsman name continue or on a few items.

The broad lines of Stanley Black & Decker should be able to handle the
number of products.

Martin
I considered the only virtue of Craftsman hand tools was that if you
broke one,
they'd replace it no questions asked.Â* They used to be made of better
materials than the chinese versions...but that ship has sailed.