Tool quality

[Jack Houweling]

I like good tools, I buy all the best wrenches, pliers, and screwdrivers I 
can find from other sources.. If I cannot find good quality tools I will 
make them myself using the finest wood and  metal.  I like tools that look 
good and are good quality.
You don't want to go to a customers house and display "dollar store tools". 
They just don't work or they break.
Another way to find good tools is to find technicians who are retiring and 
buy all their tools. I have done this five times and have quit a collection 
of  older quality tools.



Jack houweling







----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Nossaman" <rnossaman at cox.net>
To: "Pianotech List" <pianotech at ptg.org>
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Tool quality


>
>> I'm not "blaming" anyone (although selling poor quality, regardless of 
>> the
>> price, seems a dangerous business philosophy in a profession that depends 
>> so
>> much on tools), I'm just asking for the sources of the quality tools you 
>> say
>> are available. Paying $20 for a handle-less screwdriver doesn't seem
>> particularly "cheap" to me but my complaint is not about prices, it's 
>> about
>> the quality.
>
>
> It's why some of us make our own tools as we can, more of us modify 
> available tools to more nearly fit our concept of how they *should* work, 
> and probably all of us have a short list of dream tools we hope to find 
> real soon now.
>
> Ron N
>