(I’m trying to adjust my shopping habits for quality, long-lasting goods from reputable brands. This isn’t some hailcorporate thing)
(I’m trying to adjust my shopping habits for quality, long-lasting goods from reputable brands. This isn’t some hailcorporate thing)
Most of the shit is made in China now, including Craftsman, Snap-on, and other traditional American tool manufacturing brands. Wera and Wiha are made in Germany, and worth the extra money if you expect your tools to last a lifetime.
Wera and Wiha are both great but Craftsan and Snap-On still machine and manufacture tools in the US
They haven’t had their primary manufacturing in the USA for like a decade. They’re just recently starting to move their manufacturing back to the USA.
Craftsman, maybe, but I can drive 45 minutes from where I’m sitting right now and see the same Snap-On factory that was there 20 years ago and I sure as hell ain’t in China
It looks like most of their hand tools are still made in the USA. Some of their more complicated hand tools are made in Taiwan, and a lot of their power tools are made in China. When I was looking for a new screwdriver set a few years ago, the Snap-on set I saw was made in Taiwan, but as of 2023, at least according to this article, they’re made in the USA. Maybe I came across an outlier in my search, or maybe they’ve moved all the screwdriver manufacturing back to the USA now. Anyways, I’m glad to see they’re still/now making a lot of hand tools in the USA. I was really bummed by what happened to Craftsman and other former high quality American brands. If I’m remembering correctly, Sears sold the Craftsman brand to a hedge fund or VC years ago, who immediately moved all of the manufacturing to China, but continued charging American made prices, and it wasn’t widely known what had happened for a little while.