Their tools are cheap and that is what you pay for, cheeeeeap tools. Hd and Lowes seem to be about the same to me, but better quality tools, HD has the edge I think with some of the rigid tools, I said "some". I buy my lumber from Rockler, Woodcraft, and another lumberyard, we have here. More @Wikipedia
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