[wire]

Bridge City tools has a labor day sale that ends today (9/8) at midnight. https://bridgecitytools.com/

Klingspor has 10% off Tormek accessories, but I am guessing many other vendors do also.

- LumberJockMan

TBH the Bridge City sale is not much of a sale

- wire

Unless they routinely have 30-50% off sales it seems pretty decent.

- AM420

HP-9v2 Dual Angle Block Plane on sale $369…......09/04/2021 it was $299

HG-4 Honing Guide on sale $159….lowest price $139

Kerfmaker KM-1 on sale $49…..lowest price $39

Kerfmaker KM-2 on sale $79…...........09/04/2021 it was $69

Multi Tools MT-1 on sale $99…..this is a low price

UG-1 Universal Gauge on sale $105…...close to lowest, 09/02/2020 it was $98

Just to name a few, they have these sales just about every day and the prices change constantly. Sign up for their mailing list and see for yourself. I get email from them every day and from their other site, harveywoodworking.com

I m watching for when the new DJ-3 Universal Drilling Jig drops to $300 or less.

- wire

Are those comparison prices from over a year ago before all materials and production costs started shooting up?

- AM420

Recent

Yesterday the UG-1 Universal Gauge was $105, today it's $95

Yesterday HG-4 Honing Guide was $159 and HP-8 Mini Block Plane was $85, today buy both as a bundle and its $224 a savings of $20.

 

[LumberJockMan]

TBH the Bridge City sale is not much of a sale

- wire

The jointmaker thing (the sliding table over the handsaw) was a significant discount.
Everything has gone up in price over the last 12-18 months..
Are you going to complain every time someone posts a Grizzly sale? At some point, the price of their stuff was less than the next "Sale" price..
Forgive me for trying to contribute.

 

[CaptainKlutz]

Anyone in Arizona looking for antique cast iron planer?

PHX CL has 13" Craftsman labeled Parks planer for $100.
Complete based on my inspection last month. Seller is helping a friend clear out her husbands wood shop.

https://phoenix.craigslist.org/evl/tls/d/scottsdale-planer-jointer-horizontal/7379255523.html

 

[brtech]

Forstner bit sale at Peachtree: https://www.ptreeusa.com/edirect_092321_forstner.htm
The nice thing about this set is 1/8" increments from 1/4" to 2 1/8 for $54. I'm sure these are not the very best bits available, but if you are like me, I have a bunch of Forstners, but I do often find I need something between what I have.

 

[sepeck]

Forstner bit sale at Peachtree: https://www.ptreeusa.com/edirect_092321_forstner.htm
The nice thing about this set is 1/8" increments from 1/4" to 2 1/8 for $54. I m sure these are not the very best bits available, but if you are like me, I have a bunch of Forstners, but I do often find I need something between what I have.

- brtech

That's packaged remarkably the same as a set I got a while ago at Woodcraft. They are not the best but they work just fine for occasional use as needed.

 

[CaptainKlutz]

Forstner bit sale at Peachtree: https://www.ptreeusa.com/edirect_092321_forstner.htm
The nice thing about this set is 1/8" increments from 1/4" to 2 1/8 for $54. I m sure these are not the very best bits available, but if you are like me, I have a bunch of Forstners, but I do often find I need something between what I have.

- brtech

That s packaged remarkably the same as a set I got a while ago at Woodcraft. They are not the best but they work just fine for occasional use as needed. - sepeck

There are a lot of folks selling the same tools with different labels when the OEM tools come from Tools-R-Us (Called Fortune Extenables Corp) in Taiwan: https://www.tool-r-us.com/

Yes, Tools R Us really exits.

Impressive operation if you have credentials to get in door.
Started as an language translation service and export manager when they started in 1980's. Before I retired; knew several of the large WW OEM used to contract with them to manage local product production, so they don't have to hire resident engineers/managers to 'baby sit' product deliveries. Today, they are full turn key product design/mfg house that uses Taiwanese and Chinese mfg to produce private label products for many OEM with volumes too small to work direct with mfg(s).

They have massive warehouses, where they can buy in bulk from actual mfg and drop shop to OEM as needed.

Also have a 'mfg' operation for where products are converted into various OEM brands we all see. It is a magical place where; those special labels, little bags of hardware, OEM brand instruction sheets, and custom cardboard packaging; all get wrapped around the products we buy.

If you look close at the Tools-R-Us website, will find a lot of familiar looking tools.

Even if Fortune is not supplying these drill bits posted above; there are a couple of other companies that manage small OEM tool exports. But they don't have flashy web sites that I remember off the top of my head. LOL

Sorry if the above 'pops your cherry' on where small private labels tools come from.

Cheers!

 

[sepeck]

Knew the general stuff long ago. Not at all familiar with the specific companies and details although I find the name amazing.

My phrasing was more tongue in cheek

 

[Ocelot]

Home Deopt .com has Shop Fox W1854 18/36 1.5 HP drum sander $1074 with free shipping.

It's $1499+$179 from Grizzly, who charges me 9% sales tax even though it's supposed to be 5.5%. Home depot get's the sales tax right. From the grizzly checkout calculated $1813 delivered vs $1134 from HD, a savings of $679 from HomeDepot.com.

I just ordered one. I can still cancel if it turns out to be a terrible machine.

 

[bline22]

@Ocelot thanks for this. I had been looking at the supermax 16-32. Wondering if you had compared the shopfox to that by chance and what drove you to this model?

 

[Ocelot]

It was an impulse buy, bline22. I have looked at them from time to time but not seriously. Price drove me to this model. The reviews I've seen are also generally positive though some people have needed a new conveyer belt right out of the box.

 

[AM420]

Home Deopt .com has Shop Fox W1854 18/36 1.5 HP drum sander $1074 with free shipping.

It s $1499+$179 from Grizzly, who charges me 9% sales tax even though it s supposed to be 5.5%. Home depot get s the sales tax right. From the grizzly checkout calculated $1813 delivered vs $1134 from HD, a savings of $679 from HomeDepot.com.

I just ordered one. I can still cancel if it turns out to be a terrible machine.

- Ocelot

Looks like this is their standard pricing rather than a sale or special buy.

 

[Ocelot]

It looks to be the same price on Amazon. I wonder why so much more on Grizzly?

 

[AM420]

I noticed that the HD price for the Jet 10-20 sander is a lot lower than most other sellers. Searching it shows as $999, but if you add to your cart it's $899. So if you don't need 32" capacity and don't mind 2 passes for wider than 10" you can save $174 from the shopfox

I'm personally holding out until I can finally build the James Hamilton drum sander. It looks like a pretty good shop project to save a lot of money for something that has additional capability over off-the-shelf drum sanders.

 

[ChrisnAZ]

It looks to be the same price on Amazon. I wonder why so much more on Grizzly?

- Ocelot

The Grizzly version is identical and slightly cheaper than the Shop Fox version being sold elsewhere. Maybe they are trying to push their own product over the Shop Fox being the reason for the increased cost?

 

[Ocelot]

I thought grizzly owned shop fox.

 

[CharlesA]

Grizzly is the direct to consumer. Shop Fox is the brand in retail stores. I think Grizzly doesn't want to undercut Retailers on SF products. Not sure why they started offering them online.

 

[Lazyman]

+1, They often sell them higher on their website so they don't undercut their retail customers.

 

[CaptainKlutz]

PeachTree eDirect sale:

Regular price is $109 on www.ptreeusa.com, and sale price is only on AmaDud this time:
https://www.amazon.com/Pro-Grip-Straight-Edge-Clamps-All/dp/B07L18YFVC

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Also forgot to post the Halloween sale, sorry for the delay:

https://www.ptreeusa.com/edirect_102121_halloween.htm

Cheers!

 

[Lazyman]

Texas Woodcraft stores have all board feet lumber and turning blanks 20% off today only. (Saturday).

 

[CaptainKlutz]

Grizzly November sale is Name Brand tools. The prices are usually similar everyone else's sale prices on Dewalt, Milwaukee, or Kreg; but occasionally find hidden closeout deal.

Noted that Shop Fox sale has a couple power feeders, lathe, 13" planer/molder tool; with deeper than normal discount: https://www.grizzly.com/search?q=(altcategory:%22November+1st+Shop+Fox%22)
Looks like prices are below BORG, or Amadud online prices for couple machines I checked?

YMMV!