Me too, BDZ. I don't know whether it still holds true with Draper's "almost top quality", but I always found them to be be about twice the price of the 'bog standard' cheapos, but probably 5 times the quality... Whereas the Snap-On, etc. were probably 10 times the quality but 20 times the price ('wet-finger-in-the-air' estimates, of course).
The other one was Kamasa, 20-odd years ago, which actually were almost the same price as the 'cheap crap', but the high quality only applied to their German-made tools - which were packaged similarly to the ever-more-prevailent Taiwan-made (I think - may even have been Japan) line which was a very pale imitation.
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Originally Posted by BlackDogZulu
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I've never been able to afford top-flight tools (Snap-On etc) but have always followed the 'best you can afford' mantra. I look in my toolbox, and the battered old things that get used again and again and never seem to let me down mostly have 'Draper' written on them.
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