There's no way I would buy Snap-On stuff if I wasn't actually in the industry. I'd buy whatever I could pick up at Wal-Mart or Harbor Freight.

For me, Snap-On tools have nothing at all to do with status. It's all about quality and feel. It helps a lot that there is a guy at the shop once a week to sell me more tools and fix or replace the ones I broke.

Then there's the fact that Snap-On makes a lot of tools that you just can't get anywhere else. Some of the special tools sold by Kent Moore are improved and sold by Snap-On.

But not everything I own is Snap-On. I used to have a really good Mac dealer I bought a lot of tools from. Some of my favorite tools are from Mac.

Here's my toolbox;


It's a Snap-On. Ratchets, sockets and wrenches are things that I have learned not to go cheap on. Those are Snap-On all the way. Some of the other stuff I can cheap out on a little. But like Frank said, what is extravagant to some is what others simply cannot do their job without (at least not for very long).

Clay

Clay