wroughtn_harv
Super Member
I've got at least two thousand dollars in carving, cutting, and specialty tools I've purchased at our local Woodcraft store in Farmer's Branch over the years.
It's one of those places that you know going in isn't Harbor Freight. You're going to pay three prices. Two of those are for service and expertise.
Sunday just after lunch and it was a little busy. This is the upper crust shopping for the tools and materials befitting their status and the quality of their projects.
By the time I got served I had made a mental committment to leave at least a couple of hundred dollars there for stuff I felt I couldn't reasonably pick up anywhere else.
Then it came time for the finishing questions to be answered.
A fella named "Scot" I believe was called over. He'd never heard of the wood I was working with. I suggested we go online to see it so he could compare it to what he knew. He didn't have time for that. So I attempted to define it a little better.
He suggested Home Depot and Thompsons Sealer or whatever fence guys used. They dealt with furniture grade woods there at Woodcraft.
I bit my tongue. And then I tried to explain myself again. He then suggested that what I wanted deserved the kind of research they couldn't provide.
I agreed with him and left.
After all I had seven thousand pounds of exotic South American wood in my shop. They didn't have a seventh of that in inventory of South and North American exotics.
And all I'm doing is a statement fence. They're more into checkerboards and exotic pens.
But anyone who complements my final project will get the disclaimer "no products or tools from Woodcraft.com used on this project."
An interesting side note. They didn't have any number three square drive bits at Woodcraft. I was disappointed but not surprised. None of the HD's or Lowes I'd checked hadn't either. The same for the Dewalt store on Valley View in North Dallas. And ditto for the Porter Cable Delta Store in Carrolton.
But the Home Depot at seventy five and fifteenth in Plano did.
What's this world coming to?
It's one of those places that you know going in isn't Harbor Freight. You're going to pay three prices. Two of those are for service and expertise.
Sunday just after lunch and it was a little busy. This is the upper crust shopping for the tools and materials befitting their status and the quality of their projects.
By the time I got served I had made a mental committment to leave at least a couple of hundred dollars there for stuff I felt I couldn't reasonably pick up anywhere else.
Then it came time for the finishing questions to be answered.
A fella named "Scot" I believe was called over. He'd never heard of the wood I was working with. I suggested we go online to see it so he could compare it to what he knew. He didn't have time for that. So I attempted to define it a little better.
He suggested Home Depot and Thompsons Sealer or whatever fence guys used. They dealt with furniture grade woods there at Woodcraft.
I bit my tongue. And then I tried to explain myself again. He then suggested that what I wanted deserved the kind of research they couldn't provide.
I agreed with him and left.
After all I had seven thousand pounds of exotic South American wood in my shop. They didn't have a seventh of that in inventory of South and North American exotics.
And all I'm doing is a statement fence. They're more into checkerboards and exotic pens.
But anyone who complements my final project will get the disclaimer "no products or tools from Woodcraft.com used on this project."
An interesting side note. They didn't have any number three square drive bits at Woodcraft. I was disappointed but not surprised. None of the HD's or Lowes I'd checked hadn't either. The same for the Dewalt store on Valley View in North Dallas. And ditto for the Porter Cable Delta Store in Carrolton.
But the Home Depot at seventy five and fifteenth in Plano did.
What's this world coming to?
