Duane Bozarth wrote:

Hadr roughly 20-year old pair linesman's pliers...hired hand chose to
use rhem to try to cut #10 steel fencing wahr, putting nice round hole
in cutting edge..

Took 'em into local catalog store--as expected, didn't have 'em in
stock. Looked up present equivalent in catalog, store placed repair
order and the new ones showed up a few days later prepaid via US
Mail...and the new pair seems as solid, USA-made, as the originals.

Well, i havnt read the rest of this thread, but i can speak from experience,
Craftsman hand tools are decent high quality tools.
Eric