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Originally Posted by kacir
I am willing to pay for "brand" tools. When I buy a chisel for carving wood, or tools for metalworking lathe, for example, I a willing to pay 500% premium for Czech made one. In fact, for such tools I am willing to pay for a second-hand tool 200% of what I would pay for a new one made in China or India or Indonesia or ... . I have paid 400% premium for some hand-held electrical tools I own. Like an angle grinder or a drill. This is where the difference in quality is really obvious. But you have to differentiate. For some jobs a Chinese made junk tool(*) is good enough.
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Yup!
When it comes to tools I know I'll only use once or twice I'll happily go for the cheapest of the cheap at a Dollar Store. For tools I'll be keeping and using repeatedly I'll go with a Brand-name product I can research first. It's the engineering ethic at work, not parsimoney.
It's all about fitting the tool to the task or the situation.
There is room for everybody.
It comes down to knowing what you are doing and why.
Problems really only arise when you work blindly.