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Wilde Wednesday Special

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

In honor of Wilde Wednesday (tomorrow), Epstein’s will be giving away one free pair of Wilde 10″ groove joint pliers with every order $75 and over of Wilde tools. Just make sure that when you place your order, you note in the comments field that you are participating in Wilde Wednesday. Thanks for all the [...]

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Wilde Wednesday!

Monday, February 18, 2013

The guys over at Garagejournal have come up with a special event that they’ve called, “Wilde Wednesday.” This wednesday support local manufacturing by purchasing some Wilde tools. People are into locally grown foods, so why not locally made tools? Located in Hiawatha Kansas, they started in Kansas City on Southwest Blvd, but got tired of [...]

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A brick walks into a window and says…

Monday, February 11, 2013

So someone threw a brick through our window last night and I’d like to take this opportunity to discuss the various theories of how this could have happened. The first theory I’d like to look at is what I call the “drunken sponge theory”. Basically it supposes that there was a drunk guy stumbling through [...]

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A book on sharpening

Monday, February 4, 2013

After news hit that Epstein’s was going to start selling its first book, Amazon.com released a statement saying that they were giving up on selling books or anything else online. A spokesman for Amazon said Sunday that, “We are completely overhauling the whole company. Everything is up in the air.” When pressed for more specific [...]

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The Transaction Relationship

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

I’ve been thinking about this more and more often and I just wanted to share a few thoughts on the “transaction relationship”. We are constantly confronted with it. We want to buy something. We have to exchange money for it. A person is there to help us through. I see it in various forms from [...]

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New Bessey Deal on the way!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

But first, one of our customers was nice enough to send us some photos of the box art he’s been collecting. Here’s one I accidentally missed out on photographing. Some nice “box on box” action. And now to the big news! Just in time for the holidays we are getting in a Bessey deal. Primarily [...]

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New Wilde Deal – Sneak Peek

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

So, we bought a new closeout deal from Wilde. It should be in on Thursday, but it will take us a while to sort through everything, so I imagine I’ll start posting new items on Monday. The deal consists mostly of odd automotive tools, so I’ll be interested to see the response to some of [...]

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Moody Tool aquired by Central

Monday, March 5, 2012

We are always a little nervous when another US tool company gets bought, but this time it looks like a good fit. I’d never heard of Central but apparently they make US precision measuring equipment and US made lights. US made lights? I couldn’t believe it either. I’m going to have to do a little [...]

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Klein / Vaco / USA Vise-Grip / Masterlock Small Lot Closeout

Friday, June 3, 2011

UPDATE: Posted some NOS Channellock today. UPDATE: Finally finished putting all the Klein on-line. The quantities on some of these are very low (1′s and 2′s). There are a few NOS chanellock pliers that I’ll put on tomorrow along with some USA Vise-grip and 2 Knipex pliers. UPDATE: Posted some of the USA Stamped Vise-Grip [...]

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51 Percent

Tuesday, April 12, 2011

UPDATE: I talked to a few people and here’s what they’re saying. Pretty much that there is no new law or no new requirements, but that certain kits are falling into gray areas in terms of what laws apply to them. Certain kits, especially the ones that are put on military bases, can still be [...]

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