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55430 tom thornton <tomthornton@n...> 1999‑01‑03 Re: Corsair hand planes?
> John wrote
> Hey, I was tempted by a Corsair once, It had a cool box with giraffes  > on
it. I guess they are the mascott for the great neck tool company.
> John.
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Gotta read the last sentence slowly or it goes right by !!!!!!!

I would use care in knocking any of our old products. If somebody
doesn't save at least one, a bit of history is gone forever.

I note we have some who like to knock Craftsman. They reveal their
inexperienced youth. In the early days if you lived on a farm in the
midwest you simply had no source of tools other than Sears or
Montgomery Wards and regardless of the quality you got them to work. -

Furthermore their pricing policy forced many manufactures into
producing quality at a affordable price.  Had they not done that
tools for the average person would still be unaffordable.

      Tom Thornton,
  Collector of old tools, specializing in hand cranked grindstones
  Cincinnati #3, F&AM, Morristown, New Jersey, USA



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