Black & Decker makes Dewalt. They sell the hell out of them.
The name will be changed to Crap-man.
I still have some Black and Decker tools from the early sixties, maybe late fifties. They were headquartered in Baltimore and made a lot of their tools in Hampstead, Md.
Really well built. I’ve had a couple of the motors reconned, but everything still works.
We have an older Dewalt radial arm saw that still cuts straight as can be.
Shame the way quality in and of itself has become a lost value for much of what we see in consumer goods.
42 Sears stores, 108 K-Marts are on the chopping block.
I get more than enough semi-immortal tools from buying old houses in PA, they’re a gold mine for stuff that will never wear out or fail on you. But if I hadn’t any other option I’d buy old tools on ebay. Or with enough leisure time, haunt the estate sales and auctions.
Actually, the brands of power tools most professionals trust are Milwaukee and De Walt. I’ve seen Milwaukee brand powered drills and those things are built like tanks. I’ve seen a lot of Milwaukee tools sold at Home Depot and Lowe’s.
Peeling off assets before they close the doors.
That was the last brand name (other than their Kenmore) appliances keeping Sears afloat. The company may finally die the death that mismanagement imposed on them. I still wonder how Sears (home of the century-old Sears Catalog) could have messed up the transition to online shopping, which they should have dominated.
If you're willing to pay a bit more for very high quality tools, check out Lee Valley Tools (www.leevalley.com). Their focus is on woodworking tools, so you won't find everything you need, but you should give them a look-see.
“At one time, the brand name Black & Decker meant something. Now it means nothing. I suppose Craftsman will go that same route.”
Craftsman has been of pretty bad quality for a long time. Black and Decker is now a joke.
Craftsmen has been in decline for a long time as well... which is obvious by the fact they couldn’t even get a sale price in the BILLIONS for it. There was a time, “Craftsman” meant something...
I Wish this guy who’s running Sears would step aside and let someone with retail competence run this company... this has been a 10+ year slow motion train wreck.
Last time I looked (last month), most Craftsman branded tools were made in Red China. FUSR. FUCT.
I stopped buying Craftsman after it became another piece of “Made in China” junk.
Wow! At least they could have gone with Snap-On or something...
Well, there goes my only reason for still going there.
The decline and fall of Sears will become a Harvard Business Review (HBR) case study for future MBA students to ponder.
Stanley Black & Decker to open U.S. plant after Trump's 'border tax' threat
Loree said the location of the new manufacturing plant to produce Craftsman products has not yet been determined. The company currently operates 29 total U.S. plants.About a half century ago, the Craftsman brand was primarily made in America. Today it's largely made overseas, Loree said.
"We believe this is an excellent opportunity to re-Americanize and revitalize this legendary brand," he told investors.
Sears has already done that on their own - they sent almost all tool production out to China and quality dropped massively. Craftsman tools have often been repackaged and relabeled Harbor Freight tools with a big markup for the past decade. There’s now no reason to go to Sears except for picking stuff up on closeout or in the inevitable bankruptcy liquidations.