Elroy holds a degree of sadness for the younger guy who's starting out to build his tool collection.
Yep, I definitely got shafted.
Crescent adjustable wrenches were no longer being made here, crafted was dead and the old stock was drying up, no more master mechanic, Husky, or Kobalt, Camillus cutlery and Schrade cutlery were already shut down, as well as imperial, Colonial, and Western.
I got started into tool buying about a decade ago and a lot of my options for affordable American made tools were gone.
That's the biggest reason why American made goods are so important to me, because I missed out on the era when it was the imported goods that were harder to find.