What's happening with Harbor Freigth?

like? which tools? I have not noticed any.

-- Crashn - the only thing I make more of than sawdust is mistakes

band saw, table saw, hinges, snow blower and more.
After ugly fight with is father one son now manages the company, I guess that he has different priorities and objectives.

-- Bert

I think they may be updating some stuff. My local HF has a brand new bandsaw on display that looks EXACTLY like the older Grizzly 14” that is no longer on Grizzly webiste (it sold for about 425.00).

I don’t see it on the HF website yet though, just in-store

-- http://www.etsy.com/shop/KandJWoodCrafts

There is a LOT of stuff at HF that is not on the web page. The 14” band saw like lumberjoe mentioned, the 6” jointer is still in store, and a few other items…

I have seen table saws listed before but they appear to be gone. Not sure I know anyone brave enough to buy a HF table saw, but then again… if it is another gem at a good price, why not?

-- Manufacturer of fine quality sawdust since 1984. Comments and advice on my shop welcome. Check it out at http://lumberjocks.com/dbhost/workshop. Gladly accepting shop build donations!

For what it’s worth, when the jointer was on the website, it was listed as “in store purchase only”. I tried to order one from them because my store never has one. Even calling them they said it had to be purchased in store

-- http://www.etsy.com/shop/KandJWoodCrafts

I seriously hope they don’t stop carrying these :

-- - The mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground.

Would almost bet slow selling items, cost to manufacture, spare parts, & shipping, big factor in profit margins.

-- Bill

I stopped in my local HF today and I noticed a lot of new stuff that was not in there before. A lot of the measuring and marking tools were from a different place and some of the clamps were new. From what I saw they still had the same stuff it was just a different manufacture

-- Dan - "Collector of Hand Planes"

I was in my HF yesterday and noticed a bunch of new stuff. In particular updated quick clamps that one BinghamtonEd posted above was gone. The new one felt much better I may actually break down and get one to try it out. I really disliked the old one.

-- --- Richard Jackson

BinghamtonEd “I seriously hope they don’t stop carrying these”
Are you serious?
You cannot be serious
This is the only thing that HF carries that I call ” real piece of crap”.

-- Bert

I may have to go have a talk with the store manager, he’d know what’s going on. I got my BS DC and joiner from them. It worries me if they don’t carry Central Machine parts anymore. I love that brand and hate to see them loose it but more importantly who will pick it up? So far as I can tell online, HF is the only place to get it.

-- Failure does not stop me, it makes me try harder..... because I'm crazy.

Bert, I was messing around. I got some of those for Christmas, they suck. My father-in-law needed a couple spreaders, so I gave him those. He tried to give them back when he was done, and I told him they were his problem now.

-- - The mightiest oak in the forest is just a little nut that held its ground.

I guess brand/product attrition is part of the “bargain price”?
Don’t get me wrong, I have my share of HF tools. I was a frequent shopper at one time. But as my tool purchases became fewer and further between, price is no longer the prime factor that it once was for me. That said, I tend to favor other brands/retailers.

Ed- you had me going for a minute there. Those “clamps” would easily make the top of any worst tool in the world list.

I’ll cop to buying the Worst Tool. Two in fact. The first one broke the first time I used it.

I’m not sure where the other one went but I find I have a high tolerance for that particular item of ambiguity.

Kindly,

Lee

-- "...in his brain, which is as dry as the remainder biscuit after a voyage, he hath strange places cramm'd with observation, the which he vents in mangled forms." --Shakespeare, "As You Like It"

Yeah those clamps are just the worst. I have 2 36” versions. They are the dead last clamps I use in my shop, after all my other clamps, a couple of cinder blocks, scrap wood, etc. I have to believe that they went straight from design to production, without an ounce of testing.

Rich;)

-- Rich;) -"Dada make a big mess?" "Yes Dada made a big mess."