A lot come from home despot especially around black Friday.
With price fixing the norm it is frequently online.
Mostly Milwaukee battery stuff M18 or M12, or their hand tools and sockets.
I still have a pretty good foundation of sears craftsman filling the tool box.
At this point, I really have to work pretty hard to need a tool that isn't already on the shelf and being able to justify it.
I'm getting close to picking up a Smiths Little gas torch to add onto the oxyacetylene gear.
This is if I ever decide to start playing with jewelry.

 

Hmm if I'm not buying tools off the truck I'm usually on tekton.com or at harbor freight. I do check amazon for some titan, lisle, stuff when they are the only option and a local store doesn't have something. I do buy some cheaper made rando brand tools from amazon when I want to try something or need it for a specific project and may never need it again. if its something that proves useful or I find myself using it a lot I may look for the better made brand version. I did stop into a lowes during the holidays and pick up some craftsman v series stuff which was nice but very incomplete for a work set. I also stop into home depot for powertools and other random tools usually around the holidays.

 

New tools either HF or Amazon, I have a lot of Craftsman I have bought years ago and my dad's handed down to me, I have some Kobalt too. For power tools, I started buying Milwaukee M12s, I have a lot of Ryobi but prefer Milwaukee now.
If I was starting out from scratch I would choose Tekton and Milwaukee.

 

I have all the tools I need. Craftsman, Stanley, Dewalt, and some my Dads when he was a carpenter. If I need to buy any I go to Lowe’s where I get a military discount.

 

I have had both thumbs done. For the first thumb they put in a piece of plastic and my body did not like it so he went back in and replaced it with a tendon for my arm. For the second thumb he just used the tendon. I was told that because they were removing the tendon from the arm that I would notice a decrease of 33% in hand strength and it was true. Both hands are weaker but that was the price to pay to get rid of the constant pain.

 

I find this website to be helpful in being aware about tools availability and deals.

https://toolguyd.com/

 

I've had friends and relatives who cleaned out homes belonging to grandparents that passed away. They ask me if I want some tools that belonged to grandfathers, and I immediately say yes, I take them all. I have lots of spanner (box end) wrenches with old tool company names on them, companies that are long gone. Those tools are all made in USA and Canada, probably 75 years old, and in great condition. I don't need that many tools but I love having them, it is stuff that you will never see again as everything these days is off-shore.

I have a number of corded tools I've gotten from them as well, sometimes the old corded tools just have more torque than our battery powered equivalents so I like to have them on stand-by.

 

somewhere around 20 years ago, one of the New England S2k said he had a coworker whose husband had passed away.
She was selling a lot of his tools. The guy was a new tool hoarder.
The basement was just packed with tools.
With no exaggeration he probably had between 300 and 500 wrenches, a 5 gallon pail of sockets and so forth.
Almost everything looked brand new, not "well-cared for" new but never been touched new.
I couldn't bring myself to buy anything.
I was in conflict between my aggressive scavenger-buy-it-cheap and nice guy, not taking advantage of a grieving widow.
Nice guy won but I'll admit it was creepy. It just had bad juju.

 

I have tools I have had since I was a kid. My mother would occasionally get me some tool I wanted/needed (was heavily into flying model airplanes) and I still have them to this day. I invested years ago in a very nice Craftsman socket set with "VK" on the handles. That signifies Danaher made it around 1997. I want to get USA made stuff so I avoid China with the exception of Taiwan. They make great quality stuff. Over the years I have some Snap on tools and a few others. Ebay is big for me as I can find vintage stuff.

Big box/Costco supplies others like bandsaws/drill presses, scroll and crosscut saws made my Makita, DeWalt, Delta, and Dremel.

I use Harbor freight for the consumables and I did get a giant set of metric 3/4" sockets just so I could do the Axle nut TSB on the S2000.

I have a bunch of smaller specialty tools I picked up around the world. I have lubricants and small driver set/screwdrivers from France, a really nice 20 piece Swiss file set that is made for clocks/watches and fine tooling.

 

I am more than a little impressed on how organized your tools are! I looked at the users manual for my compressor. It was newer than I thought. It's 38 years old.

I will post a couple shelves later. I can't open any big drawers due to how I have the MG stored. In addition to the tool chests, etc. I have several completely filled tool bags. One in the MG with good stuff like Snap on, one in the house garage, one in the house basement, one on the house second floor, and one in the truck. Call me lazy but when I need a tool I like having them close by and handy.